"Love what you do if you want to do well." (I am the author :P )
Well, my class was very nice. I did enjoy this class more than the others I taught. I am not sure if it was because it was the last one this period or what, but I enjoyed it so much. I started the class by reviewing the countable and uncountable nouns by using some flashcards bearing images of food. With that warm up, I practiced with the speaking skill because besides asking them if it was countable or not, I asked them to use a quantifier with the noun. They did very well.
Secondly, I gave them a piece of paper with some sentences in which they had to rewrite the wrong ones, and if the sentence was ok, they had to write a C. The activity lasted for 10 minutes because we checked the answers. I heard some words that they pronounced wrong, and I told them the right way :). I could see that they understood the topic that my classmate explained, and it was very nice. The third activity I applied was a reading comprehension in which they had to underline the correct word between parenthesis. It took 10 minutes too because we checked the answers and read the paragraph. At the end, my last activity was a song, which is the one that you are listening to in this blog. I gave them a piece of paper with the lyrics of the song, but I deleted some nouns that they had to fill when listening to the song. I played it three times so that they could check and tell me if the nouns were countable or uncountable. They liked the song, and all the girls were singing it! The boys did not sing it exactly, they just moved their lips to sing as if they were ashamed of singing that song hahahaha.
Anyways, I enjoyed the class because I applied the four macro skills with different activities, and it is a very good way to vary the activities. I really enjoyed the class, and I was glad to see that the students liked the activities. I can see a great potential in all of them. Now, I just way for your comments.
Nice quote Gustavo!!!! If you really love what you do you will do it very well, because you will be encourage you to give your best.
ResponderEliminarIt´s good to know that you enjoyed your last class. As you said in your comment is very important to vary the kind of activities in your class so that students can have fun but at the same time you can address the different macro skills. Listen to a song is a good idea to practice vocabulary and grammar structures, students always enjoy those kinds of activities.
Nice job!!!!!
Hello Tavito!! It is good to know you enjoyed your class, because it motived you to do your best! I like the way you developed your class, because I am sure your students practiced a lot having fun and that is great! You did a nice job my friend and I know you will do it better each day. By the way, I really love this song and I do not want to leave this site!! jajajaja
ResponderEliminarI consider that as a teacher you have to take your time to check all the progress of the activities yo make. To me the time you took was ok since they can be aware of the correct answer by applying peer correction, and some other strategies.
ResponderEliminarNice way of closing the session. I bet they loved the song since it is one of the newest and appealing for young people.
Nice work Tavix
I see you are becoming a philosopher as well. That's nice. If you enjoy what you do you will be a happy person. For what you say, I can notice you are doing a great job with those guys. I see you're trying to develop the four macro skills and that's a hard work that demands creativity. It is not a simple thing but it can be achievable. The enthusiasm is essential and it will bring you good results and satisfaction in your life.Go ahead my friend!
ResponderEliminarSalutations dear peer!!
ResponderEliminarFirst of all, I love your quote because I truly believe that if we are completely involved in what we are doing , which means putting all our effort, mind and heart, we are going to do it well as you said, and thus we’re going to get great results.
Second of all, I really like all the activities that you developed in your class because as you said you implemented the four macro skills; in addition, I like the fact that you used visual aids as well as that you used such a beautiful song, I really like it, It is very likeable, and using music in a class is always motivating for students so congratulations about your successful class!!
Keep on it because you nailed it! :D
Really nice my dear!!!! as you said, I think we share the same feeling about the last class for this period. I am totally in agreement with you about the activities you did. There´s no better chance to encourage their interest than showing them flashcards and sharing a song for them to complete and for sure to sing it. We are about to finish our first challenge in teaching practicum and I´m convinced that we will reach our goals...Congrats my friend!!!!!
ResponderEliminarNice brother!!! And as Sarita said I had the same feeling. We finished our second expirience and I know that we did it nice. I like the activities you develop in your class. Congratulation Taviño!!
ResponderEliminarNice to see that you enhance the four macro-skills! This is really important in every class. I can see that your students had some fun developing the tasks you prepared. About the song....It seems that boys don't really like to sing, but thas was nice!
ResponderEliminarHello Gustavo!!!
ResponderEliminarI liked your quote, that is totally true!! we have to love what we do!! well, i see you have enjoyed with you students, i like the activities you performed, something that i also like is that you mixed the 4 macro skills! in dome cases we enjoyed more the last class, but all depends on the attitude you have and you show your classmates!!
Good job Gustavo!!! keep on doing your best! Blessings :)
Hello! Gustavo
ResponderEliminarI consider you did an excellent job in this class, I really liked all the activities you developed because you applied the four macro skills, and it is really important in order that our students can improve the listening, reading, writing or speaking skill. Continue doing you best..Blessings!!
Hello Tavito!
ResponderEliminari consider you have done a good job not only with students, but also with yourself because you mentioned you have enjoyed your class. i think enjoying classes give us the opportunity to be relax and feel confortable on what we are doing. well done; i wish you the best...