"Role plays"

 

In this day I was more nervous than the previous one, why? Easy! It was because I had to develop three activities and no all the students were at the class and I had to start but my warm up required all the students to make the pairs for the role plays. Well, I told the teacher what I would do and he told me to wait for 10 minutes, however not all the students arrived to the class. That was the part that did not go well. Then the things went better.

The warm up as always is the activity in which the students feel good and wake up and are ready to continue with the class and it was like that; they felt good with the partner they had to work with. I gave them some pieces of paper to make a role play, I gave them 10 minutes to write and practice the role play but actually, they took around 15 minutes preparing the role plays while I was monitoring them and checking their work. But there were two pairs that did not write down their role plays and I just listened to them when they were practicing their role plays; it was a point less for me because the teacher told me I should made them write their role plays since that was my initial instruction. Then, they performed the role plays and it was really nice, everybody paid attention and enjoy it. At the end they chose which role play they liked most.

The last activity was a listening about “school supplies” I played it three times. To check the answers I asked the students to exchange their sheets of paper and I asked for some volunteers to read the questions with their correct answers. They wrote an X for the wrong answers and a  (/  for the correct answers. Then, they assigned a grade according to the correct answers.

After the warm up everything went well. The objectives were that the students will practice the different forms of future; they did it with positive attitude. Well, if I would teach this lesson again first than all I would be informed about how to prepare or how to help the students before and while preparing a role play. Also, I would make error correction; I did not do it because of time.

The materials: pieces of paper with the statements for the role plays, a box that contained the pieces of paper, pictures about any stuf to make the warm up, CD, tape recorder, masking tape, board, eraser and markers. 

The arrange of the desks: a semi circle and  lines for the listening activity.