Describe
The topic
of my second class was Quantifiers. I arranged the desk in a horseshoe form,
in that way I could have more contact with students. I greeted the students
with enthusiasm, they were very active. As I prepared everything beforehand,
I think this class was good. The only problem that I had was with the time I
set to the activities. I always ran out of time. I believe I this is my main
problem.
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Plan
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Interpret
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I started the class with an activity in which
the students were in a circle and the ss that was inside had to guess who had
the ball; if he did not guess he must say an example of the quantifiers. In that
way I made a review about the previous class. The students were motivated
playing and at the same time they were learning.
Then I made pairs and gave them fill in the blank
exercise.
After that they have to create a story based on
quantifiers.
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Based on what I observed, I think students generally
enjoy activities in groups where movement and thinking are involved. Because they play and have fun and at the
same time they can learn something new or clarify something that was not
clear previously.
I believe that this kind of exercises are good to
practice, but is not so good to overuse them because students get bored.
In this activity the students took too much time so
the teacher started to look at her watch, which made me feel uncomfortable so,
I was rushing the students.
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In the future, I will try to include more activities
like this one, in which fun and knowledge are together.
In future lessons I will try to create another
activity because this activity might result somehow tedious for the students.
In future classes I will try organize my time,
and make sure I give the appropriate time and importance to each activity
because I always prepare many activities which I cannot develop.
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miércoles, 7 de octubre de 2015
Describe
In
general terms I can say that my first class was very good, I felt happy because
I felt comfortable with the students, for sure that gave me the confidence to
develop my class in more dynamic way. At the beginning of the class, I
introduce myself to the Intermediate I students later on, I developed a warm
up activity in which they have to spell a word without making the sound of
vowels; instead they had to mimic, they performed the activity with
enthusiasm. After that I started the class with grammar explanation of WH
questions using Past Progressive. Later I provide them some fill in the
blanks practice. Finally ss had practice rearranging the sentences and they
have to run to the board and write the sentence
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I could
notice that some students participated actively in the warm-up. Although in
the practice they were less active.
Some students had problems with the pair-work.
When
explaining the practice for them, students were a little bit confused.
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Based
on what I saw, I think they need to fell motivated to learn, if not they
would could not pay attention to what they are learning.
Based
on what I observed, I think that these students need to feel comfortable with
the person they are working.
I believe that I should explain practice in a better way so I would have to waste time by repeating the same explanation. |
So, in
the future, I will try to transmit motivation to my students because I think
it will help in the comprehension of the class.
In future lessons I will prepare more risked tasks for the students to think, and analyze rather than having a simple conversation
The
next time I will try to explain the activities in a less complicated way,
with few words and be more concise
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