Hello people…. I´m back….=) well let me tell you that yesterday was my
first time teaching in Intermediate. Before getting in to the classroom, I was
a little bit nervous but when I got in the classroom everything changed. I felt
more confident and anxious to begin the class.
I did a review of the previous class that it was about the modals
because they studied that the last class. Then, I continued with some practice.
First, I read some sentences and the students corrected them orally. After
that, I dictated those sentences and they wrote them and then they corrected
the mistakes in the written form. Then, some of the students read the sentences
correctly. Something that happened with this exercise was that I didn´t know
that the students did not have the appendixes. So, when I began this activity, I
asked them to take out their material and then the teacher told me that they
didn´t have the appendixes. So, I didn´t expect that and what I dictated the
sentences to the students and that took me more time but anyway I couldn´t stop
doing the activity and I did it.
Then, after that activity, I had in pieces of paper some teenager´s
problems, and I asked the students to work in pairs and talk about solutions,
suggestions, advice, etc. and I gave them some minutes to talk and discuss the
problem. After that, each pair read the problem and they said what they thought
about it and shared it with the class and also, some other students
participated by sharing their opinions about their classmates´ suggestions or
solutions.
At the end, the teacher gave me the feedback and he said that I did well
but I have to manage better the time because in the first activity I took more
time than the expected but I told him that I thought that the students had the
appendixes as in the other classes. But he said that I have to work in that and
that I can do better in the next class.
