I feel so satisfied with my progress through this period. I began with a good grade, but thanks God I have improved it with each opportunity I have had.
When all this stuff about teaching in the major began, I thought it was going to be so difficult and stressful; however, I have realized teaching is something I enjoy, and that could be one of the reasons why I always try to do my best. I think my progress has been shown in many ways.
Today, I had to begin a new lesson which is something I like, since that means I would have the chance to explain the grammar part (in this case the use of “so” and “such” and a review on “countable and uncountable nouns”). Thus, I decided to take advantage of the warm-up to check students’ previous knowledge on the topic. I prepared two sets of sentence strips using the target structures which I pasted in a scramble way on the wall near the board. I divided the class into two groups, and they had to order the sentences trying to guess the sentences I have written, and they had to paste them on the board. They did it very fast considering that I had not explained anything yet. The sentences they order, I used them as examples to explain the grammar structures. I gave students extra material on the grammar explanation so they do not have to copy and I could get their complete attention. On the explanation of the use of “such” I had to make emphasis on countable and uncountable nouns, so I carried a nice reading which I split into many pieces and distributed among students. I read the passage and they had to paste each piece of it as I mention it. Then, students had to identify all the countable and uncountable nouns from the reading which surprisingly they did very good.
Finally, I ask students to work in an exercise which was in the handout I had provided them. Unfortunately, my time was over and the teacher finished checking it.
I liked this class since I not only taught, but I also had the chance to review a topic I had forgotten (so and such).
