Hello!! Today I didn´t want to go
to do my second practice!!! But i had to… I arrived around 15 minutes before
7:00 a.m so I had time to prepare everything I would use for my class. When the
teacher arrived, it was kind of late but I couldn´t start as soon as he got into
the classroom since was his birthday and the students had bought him a cake to
celebrate , and I told the teacher they can celebrate first and I could teach
the next hour. They just sang the “happy birthday´s song” and I started with my
class.
As first activity, I needed a
short warm up because the teacher had assigned me 7 activities to be developed
and also the warm up. What I did was like a “word search” but on the board and
the students were divided into two groups according to some color cards that I
gave them. Then I asked them to form two lines in front of the board and I gave
one mark to each group. When I said a verb they would look for it and underline
it. They would take turns to participate.
The second activity from the
lesson plan was kind of long because first I had to have the students repeating
after me, then, I have to dictate and finally they would say the same sentences
in interrogative form. So it was like three activities in
one!! What I do was to join the three activities into one. How? I got the
students into one circle and gave them 4 paper balls. One ball with the
interrogative symbol (?), other with the negative symbol (-), other with some
pieces of paper which was the “hot potato”, and the last one with a x2 symbol that
means repeat! They passed the four balls and I played some music, when the
music stops they would stop passing the ball; the person who had the “hot
potato” would read the sentence and the person with the x2 ball would repeat
the sentence, and so on with the other balls.
The third activity was a fill in the blank exercise and it was
faster, then, I asked to some students to read the sentences in order to check
them.
The fourth activity was orally and in pairs. But I didn´t want
them to work with the same person they usually do. So, I asked them to stand up
and make two circles, one inside the other. The people from the inside circle
would walk to their right and the people from the outside circle would walk to
their left. I played some music and when it stops they would start talking
about some pictures, which were in their appendixes, with the person in front
of them. The activity was repeated three times.
The fifth activity was a written
exercise. The students had to form sentences
using “going to” and the given patterns. This activity was done in pairs or
trios since not all the students had the appendixes. To check their job; I
asked some students to read the sentences.
The sixth activity was another written exercise with patterns so
I assigned it as homework.
In the seventh and last activity I decided to help them with
their listening skill. I asked them to make two lines facing each other. The
two lines went to the back until touching the wall. This activity was called
PARDON ME! I CAN´T HEAR YOU. The students had to ask and answer about what they
are going to do next weekend, on Christmas and for their birthday. They had to
scream since they wouldn´t be able to listen to their partners because of the
music I would play. Then, I asked them about their partners´ future plans. I guess they liked this activity.
My objective was to have the students talking about their future
plan using “going to.” It was well developed.
I would change the way of checking the student´s work. I mean, I
monitor but I can´t go one by one checking the sentences. Next time I would do
a “chain drill” to check.
About the activity with the hot potato, I had a problem ;
the pieces of paper couldn´t be stuck out so I gave them the handout to read
the sentences. Next time I would practice first!!!
And finally, I had to work a little of bit more with my
pronunciation and with my grammar… I had problems with “r” sounds!! I
pronounce them kind of strong.
