Hello everybody today
was my last practice. How do I feel? HAPPY!!!! However I´m worried about my
grades because I don´t have good ones. That is something that make me feel down
because even the big effort I do while planning the activities I already know
that I´ll get a 7!!!! In the feedback the tutor tells me she liked the
activities I performed, and she tells me good things and there are a few
negative things about my class but the grades she assigned to me don´t reflect
that she really liked my activities; they reflect, for me, that I didn´t
perform so good as my tutor said!!!
For today I was
assigned to do like a mix of activities they were some related but not at all. The first activities were for reviewing the “passive
voice” The second ones were just for a listening.
Warm up
I brought a dice with
some categories (family members, types of music, a math operation, etc) and a
balloon. The students made a circle and pass both in opposite sides, I played
some music and when it stopped the person with the dice roll it and the person
who had the balloon said five things according to the category in the dice.
How do you feel??
The students chose a
feeling and read a sentence, about some facts of some countries, with the
feeling. The group had to guess the name of the country and the feeling.
Decoding sentences
The students went to
the charts pasted on the wall and try to decode the sentences. Then they mingle
and share their answers. The title of my post is one example of this exercise!
Listening exercise
The students listened
about a man who walked without shoes (barefoot). Before the listening I asked
them if they have ever walked barefoot, if they would like to do it, how it
would feel like.
I played the track
again and during the listening they wrote down some information that was asked
on their student books.
After the listening I
had planned to make a cocktail party so the students could talk about any
experience about walks they had had. But, as always I haven´t learned to deal
with the time! And it was over so I couldn´t perform this activities and just
asked them about the things they remember from the listening.
About the class I liked
the decoding exercise as it was new for the students they show more interest on
trying to do it.
I didn´t like the way I
felt! Maybe because of the camera, maybe not but I was more nervous than the
previous time, I EVEN FELT OUT OF PLACE!!!!!! I FELT LOST, I FELT AS IF WHAT I WAS DOING WAS NOT WHAT I HAD TO DO!!!
If I would teach this
lesson again I would try to overcome the time and sleep better before going to
teach and change some activities to pay more attention to the listening part.
The materials I used:
dice, balloon, charts, and pieces of paper, a box, markers, board, CD, tape
recorder, masking type, flashcards about feelings, a camera, a color paper ball
and the book.
What I didn´t like
through the practices is that I didn´t get any grade on time so I didn´t know
if should I improve my grammar my fluency or the classroom management.
Also, I didn´t like
that almost all the teachers assigned like 7 or 8 for the audio visual aids.
Why? should we bring a projector each time of teaching to get a 9? Charts, tape
recorder, color sheet of papers and dice, etc are audio visual aids, too!!!!!!!
The objectives were
reached for the first activities about the passive voice but not for the
listening exercise.
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THANKS
GOD I FINISHED THIS!!!!!
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