domingo, 21 de febrero de 2016

My second class was better for me because I arranged a set of activities that work better for the group. First, I used a horseshoe seating arrangement. Additionally, I prepared all the material I was supposed to use. Also, I wrote the agenda and some sentences on the board. Those sentences were used by the students for the warm up activity. I was told to work with reduced relative clauses. So, I worked on that topic and I used free activities with the group because we had already worked in most of the lesson plan. 

In the warm up activity I used some sentences which I wrote on the board before the class started. Students had to work in pairs and share information about the sentences. For example: there was a sentence that said: A place where you like to eat. They had to choose a place and create a relative clause. For Example, pizza hut. Pizza hut is a place where a like to eat. Students worked in the activity and share the information about the 8 sentences. During the activity I monitored all the time and I was ready to answer any question of the students about vocabulary.

After the warm up activity, I explained about how to reduce relative clauses. I noticed that was easier for them to work in reduced relative clauses because they already knew and understood about relative clauses. After that, I started with the practice. All the students worked pretty well in the activities that I presented. In fact, they finished the activities before the time I expected. So, it gave me the chance to check the answers individually asking one by one. I noticed that they had no problems to answer the statements. Also, I developed another activity in which the students answered in the moment I said the statement. All the students did a great job in the activities. It is important to mention that all the time I was monitoring and I was ready to price them and motivate them to keep working in that way.

In future teaching experiences, I will include activities that can be developed with the students moving around the classroom. We know that these kinds of activities are important for students because they forget stress and even these activities stimulate them to keep working hard. I will also have to pay more attention to the students who like to be speaking with other classmates about irrelevant things.

1 comentario:

  1. teaching relative closes is a big challenge, I think that you have some problems teaching that topic, but I know that they learn something from you. You did a good you job with your acivities. Remember that this is a practice, and we must to do it better the next time.

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