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domingo, 19 de mayo de 2013

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. ☻

7 comentarios:

  1. Hi brother, i'm glad that you did better your class. last time, the problem was the communication because i know that you prepare very well your classes. well brother, I really like all the activities you did. i hope you had an exellent experience with this group. now we had time to see the video and improve our mistakes. So, congratulatios brother

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  2. Hello Gustavo! It is nice to know that you have overcome the last class and that you did it better this time. Congratulations for it! :) Regarding to the class I liked a lot every one of the activities you developed since the warm up until the last activity. They were really nice activities. Congratulations for your job!.

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  3. Hello Gus, It seems you had a great class, that´s cool. You developed simple and fun activities that helped your students understand the topic you were teaching. I know you are very organized!!! Count and non count nouns are always a challenge as they envolve many things that students have to know very well, but you explained in such way that everybody must have had a nice time when learning!!!

    Nicely done guy!!! Blessings my friend;)

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  4. Hello tavito!!!
    What can I say!!..The warm up you implemented was nice...I did one similar with the advanced group...They like it..!!!
    I liked the way you introduced new vocabulary. As we know the use of flashcards and visual aids is important to make the points clear.
    It was a constructive class because you help the students and they provided their own vocabulary.
    Written activities are always important as we need to check students individual development
    Congratulations to you my friend...You did a great job!!!

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  5. Hi chele!! Nice to hear that everything went as you wanted...It is really nice when we have the chance to teach new vocabulary words, and the way yoy did it with the flashcards, etc. was really meaningful for them. Congratulations my dear...now you are free to go!!!! ;)

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  6. Hello Sweet-hearted!!
    Congratssss about your class, it was very creative and interactive; in addition, you had ss thinking,writing and speaking which is great for their learning. We have all finished with our practice by this moment and it feels great, isn't it?
    Thank You for commenting my blog, for me has been interesting reading and commenting yours because I have learned from you.
    Keep on it man!

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  7. Well, mister,

    I am glad to read that everything went well in your last class. You can see that many times things do not work the way we plan, but it is part of our learning experience. What I can see is that you now are more confident with your teaching skills.

    Congrats!

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