Hello everyone… I want to tell you that
I did my second teaching practice of the second period today.
I arrived early to the classroom (as
always) and got into the classroom to prepare the material for the class. I wait
for the teacher and for the students for some minutes and then, I began the
class.
I began the class with a well known game
called “the whispering game.” I divided the class in two groups. I explained
what the game was about and later, I gave one marker to the last person of each
group. The phrase I showed to the first persons of each group was a little bit
tricky because it was like a rhyme. The students had a good time whispering the
phrase, and at the end, the students who had the markers wrote the phrase they
got. Each student wrote something different and funny. I liked the game.
After that, I began asking about the
frequency adverbs. The students began saying the adverbs and their usage. They were
brainstorming their ideas. Then, I asked them to give me some sentences using
those adverbs, and they did it correctly. Then, I asked them to take out their
appendixes and work on an exercise. They were scramble sentences and I asked
them to unscramble them. While they were working, I was monitoring them. I was
answering some questions or doubts they had from the exercise. After that, I asked
some students to help with the sentences and they read them.
Next, I showed some flashcards that
contained daily activities. I showed one flashcard to one student, and he or
she had to create a sentence immediately. They did a great job creating
sentences orally and some of the students created funny sentences. Then, we
checked a short paragraph orally. I asked some students to help with the
reading and they did it. Then, we checked the adverbs and later, the whole
class read the short paragraph at the same time.
After checking that paragraph, I asked
the students to work in pairs and talk about what they do on weekdays and on
weekends. They were talking about their daily activities with their partners. Then,
I showed them a paper which contained a name of a holiday and it was “vacations”.
I pasted that paper on the board so the students could see it and talk about
it. I pasted some other names of holidays and they continued talking about
them.
The last activity I did consisted in pasting some flashcards on the
board, and I asked the students to write two sentences per each flashcard using
the frequency adverbs. After that, I asked some students to read their sentences
and they did it.
I think I did a good job because the students were not sleeping in
class. They were a little bit busy doing some tasks. I couldn’t wait for the
feedback because I had to go. I told the teacher that I will look for him later
for the feedback and for my grade. Jejeje! I think I will get a good score. =) See
ya next week!!! =)
