With this class, I finished my practice with this nice group of students. This time, I was not nervous anymore because I had already gain confidence within the group. It is nice to hear students calling me “teacher” and to see the way they saw me as a guide for their new learning.

This time I was told to work with the book. I started the class only with 9 students, but it was enough to develop the warm up. I asked the students to work in trios and gave them some quotes that were in disorder. So, they had to put the quote in order to have the complete meaning of the quotes. All the students were engaged in the activity and they did a great job.

After the warm up activity, I started working in the book. I asked to work in unit three. Students worked in pairs and discussed the quotes. They had to talk about what attitude toward adversity do the quotes expressed. I can mention that students did a great job. Additionally, they shared information about if adversity can be a positive experience. 

After this activity, they worked in a reading/listening activity. This activity was nice because student were focused all the time because there was new vocabulary for them. As a result, students at the end of the listening were asking about some words. Therefore, I helped them with those words and they keep on working in the next activity.

Next, they had to read the conversation again and they had to say the statement that were in italic in another way. Before doing this activity, I gave them the meaning for the idioms that were in the statement. As a result, it was easier for them to create the statements. Later, I asked one by one the statements they created. They did a great job.

At the end of the class, students had to move around looking for a pair because they always work with the same partner. So, I tried to avoid students talking about irrelevant things or things not related with the class. For this last activity they had to talk about if they were stuck in an elevator what they would do? How they would feel? And why people get scared being in a stuck elevator? This time students had the opportunity to speak more and share their own ideas.

Finally, I finished my class thanking students for being such a nice group, for permitting me develop my classes without any problem and of course, for showing me that they can learn more if they struggle for achieving their goals. I really obtained good experiences with this group.

Based on what I observed, I could realize that students learn much better by seeing examples of how to use a term or a phrase instead of just explaining grammar structures that always make students think that is more difficult because the teacher has to explain some theory before the practice.

In future teaching experiences, I will include more examples about the topic that is being taught because I realized that is easier for the students to get the information to apply it in the practice.