My last class

Hello guys! Let me tell you that I’m so happy because we finished the teaching process for this semester. I feel proud of you because I know that it is not easy, so let me congratulate you because we achieved our objective.

This was the time to say good bye to a good group of students. I really liked this group because they always are ready to cooperate in the class, and as you know it is something that makes easier the learning process.

The last Thursday, I made a review with them because I had taught them the grammar part the class before, and the teacher just asked to bring practice.

I brought many practices in the oral and written form. For the warm up I included an oral activity. Students walked around the class answering some question that included infinitives and gerunds because it was the topic that I taught.

Then, I made some controlled practices using fill in the blanks. I could see all of them working so hard. It was kind of difficult for them; however, they could do it at the end.

As a warm up, I did an activity using the whiteboard. I asked students to complete some exercises that I wrote down on the whiteboard, so with that activity I wanted to be sure if they had understood the topic or not, but I felt happy because they did it nice.

To sum up, I must say that I was a nice opportunity. I enjoyed every class that I taught during the semester, and I’m really thankful with God because He gave me the opportunity to do it. GOOD LUCK GUYS, AND CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Hello Dear classmates! I feel so happy because we are almost to finish this semester, and we just miss a class, and that's great!

Well, this class  I taught about gerunds and infinitives. It seems like an easy topic. However, we must be careful with the verbs because as you know, we can not use infinitives or gerunds with all the verbs, so in order to don't get confused I gave to my students a list with the verbs that you can use as gerunds or infinitives. I made a review on the topic because the teacher had already taught the grammar part, and it was not necessary to explain too much because students had understood the topic.

I consider that it was a really nice class, and I could notice that students had understood the topic, and the teacher told me. I provided many practices because the teacher as me to do it, so I provided three different examples including the Controlled, Semi-controlled, and Free practice. Nevertheless, It is important to include an oral activity in a class. In order to make them to practice the topic in the oral way, I made groups of four, and they played a boardgame. In the game they had some questions using gerunds or infinitives, some of the questions that I included are: What would you like to learn to do?  What topics are you interested in reading about? What are you good at doing?, etc. They share in their own groups for 5 minutes, but then I asked for a volunteer per each group to share with their classmates. All of them wanted to participate, and believe me, I felt safisfied! 

It was what I can say about my class, but I must include that I really enjoy teaching that group! :-)

MY FIRST CLASS IN INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH II

Time goes fast and I feel so happy because it is nice to know that we just miss two practices more, and then we will finish this semester, for that reason, I decided to videotape this class. This period I am teaching in Intermediate English II with Teacher Geovanni Blanco.

Well, when I knew the group I must teach I felt worried because I hadn’t taken a class with Teacher Blanco, and I did not know his way to teach, so I decided to ask my classmates who already taught that group with him, and  they told me that he does not like to include games or something like that in his classes. Then, after I observed the class I could notice that he likes to teach a lot of grammar, and he also provides many examples and exercises. Later, I had an idea on how to prepare my class.

In this class, I taught the Modal verbs. It was not easy because in that level you must be really careful with your grammar because your students can correct you, so believe me that I needed to study Modals again, but it was not so difficult at all.

For the Warm up, I used a song named: “Could I have this kiss forever” by Enrique Iglesias and Whitney Houston. I divided the class into two groups. I played the song three times. The first one, they listened to the song; the second one, they order the sentence, for that I used sentence strips, and at the third time, they pasted the lyrics of the song on the board. Let me tell you that this activity was a little tricky to develop because the girls of one group did not want to cooperate, so believe me, I got angry for a while, but I tried to put my best face through that situation.

Then, I explained the grammar part. It was easy because I provide many examples and I asked them to give more. It was nice because all of them wanted to participate, so later, it was time to practice what they had learned. I provided two sheets of paper with some exercises. For students, it was really tricky to solve them, but all of them tried to do it. They asked me many questions and I felt so comfortable answering them because I knew I was prepared, as you know you feel satisfied. However, I spent many time answering their questions, and I couldn’t make the oral activity that I had prepared.

To sum up, I can say that after all, it was a nice class, and it is a good group, also as an experience I can say that time can be your enemy when you teach because sometimes you need to take more time than the one you had expected.