MY THIRD CLASS

Today, I taught my last class in the Basic English course, and I could see that sometimes as teachers you have many problems at home, but you need to leave them there, and  you must be ok order to give the class. First of all, I was really worried, I had not slept so well because my mom was at the hospital since Sunday, so as you know, I needed to be with her there, and believe it or not I prepared the lesson plan there. 

There is a quote which says: “If plan A does not function, there are more letters in the alphabet to try more times”. Sometimes, technology does not help you, and it is important that if you will use an LCD projector or another machine, you should have another lesson plan in which you do not need to use them. It was my case; I prepared a video because I needed to teach the Simple Present Tense. At the very beginning the LCD projector did not function, so I was ready to use my plan “B” or “C” because I had three different lesson plans. I told that to the teacher; however, he told me that he could fix the problem, and also he told me that I shouldn’t be nervous. Well, ten minutes later, we could fix the problem, and of course, I started to teach the class.

I started with the warm up, and with that activity I taught vocabulary (verbs) and I developed the activity “Guess what I mime”.

After that, I taught the Grammar part because the video was like an introduction. Then I asked students to fill in the blanks some sentences. It was nice because I could see that they had understood the topic, and of course, it was a satisfaction to me when all of them wanted to participate to give the answer to that exercise. At the end of the class, I made the “Hot Potato”. The one who had the “potato” came to the front and changed the verb to the correct form according to the rules I had explained before. 

To conclude, what I can say is that I had a great experience teaching in that level because those have been my first experiences teaching a group. At the end of the class I thanked my students and the teacher because they helped a lot, also I brought some candies. Now, I just can say that I’m ready to teach another class!!!