The End!!!!

Hi!! Today I did my last practice!!! I´m so happy because I got a very good grade and because I finished it!!!

Let me tell you that I was as nervous as the first time but when I entered to the classroom my nerves disappeared!!!

I started with a common activity as warm up; whispering. There were just 5 students so I divided the class in two parts. I gave to the last students a piece of paper with 4 sentences written on it. They had to read them one by one to the next student who had to write them on the board. The couple or trio that finished first was the winner. Then, I checked the sentences and they were ok. The sentences introduced the topic “should/ shouldn´t and must/musn´t.”

The next activity was a reading from the book and as an introduction I asked a girl and a boy to stand up and come to the front. I told them: “they are couple, they are having a romantic relationship but they want to have a more formal relation so the boy is going to have his first meeting with the girl´s parents. They want you (the rest of the students) to give him some pieces of advice.” The students started giving pieces of advice; some of them did it using should like as in the sentences from the previous activity.

After that, I asked them to go to page 72 from their books and I read some paragraphs about “meet the parents.” Then, I asked them to read alone. I wrote some phrases on the board and they had to match them with the correct paragraphs. I checked by asking them to read it. I also asked for new vocabulary and also, I corrected the pronunciation of some words.

I continued with the grammar part. I liked it because I prepared it the way I got it and it worked very well. I gave real examples and made the students to give their own pieces of advice so that help them to understand it. Then, I asked them to go back to the reading and find out some examples per each part of the grammar I explained “should/ shouldn´t and must/musn´t.”

And the last activity was a matching exercise from the book.

My feedback was very good! My tutor told to me “congratulations I liked the way you made them participate and the way you explained the grammar part.”

In this cycle I learned many things in my practices but I really liked the last period because I took it as a bet to myself!! Since some of you had said that working with this tutor was kind of difficult I bet myself not to give up before knowing the way she evaluates! And thanks God I did it!! I didn´t get the greatest grades but they are very good for me especially because those practices were meaningful to me since I paid a lot of attention to each feedback in order to overcome my mistakes.

I feel proud of myself because I already finished my practices and with that I grow up as teacher and as person!!