first class experience, third period.

On Friday 25^th, I started with my first class of the last period. This time, I had the opportunity to be teaching to the English Access Program. To start, I introduced myself and after that, students were doing the same by standing up, telling their names, and why they decided to study English. For the warm up activity, I made use of some flashcards that helped me to present the new unit which was about “what makes people want to buy something”. Then, they were discussing the first two questions that were on the book. To continue, they were answering a questionnaire about their recent shopping purchases, and also they were discussing with a classmate about the kind of shopper they are. To finish, I just introduced the new vocabulary of the reading, and that was all I did that day. Let me tell you that I really liked that group because they participate and ask as many questions as they can during the class, and believe or not it has been a new experience for me because I could see their interest to learn the language, which is nice and something that I did not see in the students of the English major in my last teaching experiences. Well, from my part I will try to do a better job next time, and also I will be ready to clarify all the student’s doubts.

third class experience, secon period

On Thursday 3^rd, I finished with the third class of the second period. That day, I was working with some practices about modals verbs only. To start, I made used of some flashcards about different places and students had to say what they could do there and what they could not using different modals verbs. The teacher told me that it was a suitable warm up. To continue, students were reading a short paragraph that contained rules of a hotel in order to complete some sentences about it using the appropriated modal verbs. Then, I provided them another practice, and it was about different images which they had to create sentences using the verbs that were added in the practice. After this, I asked students to talk with a partner about what “they have to do” in an English class and what “they do not have to do”, and then they had to pass to the front and write all the ideas they had regarding this. I did not like the students attitude in this activity first because they made a mess in the classroom, and second because some of them were writing stupid things about what I asked which I did not like, even though I tried to control the situation. To finish with the class, I just give them another practice in which they have to complete some phrases by filling the gaps and classifying them through the different uses according to the examples, and this was all I did in my last class with the students of the intermediate level I.