Redemption time. Last class.

Well, this was my redemption time since I had an awful time on the last class. This time I did so much better, but I owe you the pictures :/. My classmates filmed my class again, so no pictures today.

Where do I start? Ah, yes! Well, I started the class by greeting them as always. My warm-up was the one in the lesson plan. I divided them in two groups and explained: Yesterday, I went to the supermarket and bought some bananas... they had to continue the structure and add an item. They had to say the complete sentence, say the food previously mentioned and add a new noun more. I also presented a new topic: Countable and Uncountable Nouns. Some of you already worked wiht that topic, but this group is a little behind. Nevertheless, I worked on it. I asked them few questions such as: Do you have plans to go out and eat? Just to introduce the new vocabulary. They answered, and then, I started my job. I wrote on the board some words such as: Seafood, Meat, Fruits, Vegetables,  Candies and Drinks. At first, I wrote seafood and asked them what they knew about it, so they told me words like: fish, shrimps, squid, oysters, etc... I saw that they knew some words. I continued the same way with the other words just to teach some vocabulary.

Later, I had some pieces of paper with the names of food. I wrote 5 groups of food on the board and asked them to take a piece of paper and paste them where it belonged; for example: orange belonged to the group of fruits, and so on. Later, I showed some flashcards using the target vocabulary, and I started to explain that there are some nouns that cannot be counted and provided some examples using the flashcards. They understood well. Moving on, I provided some sheets of paper to develop a written activity. Later, I had them describing their favorite food in pairs. They really enjoyed the activities and had so much fun. At the end, I just said goodbye to all of them. I felt glad to have overcome the previous experience.

So people, this is it. I want to congratulate you all for having finished successfully the teaching practicum. We just miss the last activities, and we are free! ☺. I also want to thank you all for commenting me. I wish you all the best. ☻

Last period, 2nd class.

Gosh! I do not know where to start... well, I must say that it was a terrible class hahahaha. This is the first time I am aware that I screwed my class. Why? The lesson plan I got was of the unit 10 while the unit studied was the 9. So I got confused, and prepared activities according to the unit 10. Before I started the class, the teacher checked my work and told me: "WHAT THE....?" hahaha just kidding, she told me that my activities were wrong since she was teaching unit 9. In that moment, I just thought: "Oh God why?" And she helped me with a quick warm up. All my work was not the right one, and I did not have any idea of what to do in that moment, but well, I improvised the activities just a little bit and had the warm up I had prepared for the other activities.

This was a very bad experience for me, but as I say, I always learn from every single situation without caring if it was good or bad. Learning is learning. Anyways, my class was awful and somehow, I improvised the activities. From all of this, I could see that the students had fun with the activities, but I felt so ashamed in that moment. My classmate filmed my class, so there are no pictures for this entry. I did not like the video, so I will film it next class hahaha. I hope you did have a very good class :). Take care folks!

Last period, first practice

Well, I am in a new class which is Basic English with teacher Karina. To start telling my experience, I want to share another quote of mine:

"To enjoy something, you only have to do what you like"

Well, let's get into business. I introduced myself, and gave some directions to establish respect and commitment with the content and myself as well as my respect to them. I will not lie; I was not so eager to teach because I had a bad night, so it was a problem for me. Nevertheless, I tried to do my best. I provided different activities to reinforce the previous classes about the simple past tense. To start the activities, I provided them a word puzzle to solve in ten minutes. They did very well, and they somehow liked it. The second activity we performed was a song. I am using the lesson plan of Elizabeth and Sara, so the song was "Killing me softly" by Roberta Flack (1973). In my opinion, I do like that song, and it is very nice, but the students knew it was an old song, so they did not enjoy it that much. Anyways, the purpose was to teach the past tense not to make them like it :P. hahahaha. We practiced, and it was nice. The last activity was to perform a roleplay using the past tense. The time was not enough, so only one group participated. I liked the group because they participate, and even though they are few students, they get along well. My expectations are high, and I know that I will enjoy the following classes.