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.
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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