My first class of the period
On Thursday 3rd I had my
first class of the period with the Intermediate course.
At the beginning of the class I was kind of nervous,
but later I felt more comfortable. This time I did not have to teach grammar,
the class was based only on practice about what they studied the previous class.
The topic was modal verbs. As a warm up I made the famous game ´´Broken
Telephone´´. Then I read some sentences and they had to tell me if they were
right or not. If they were wrong they provided the right sentences. After that I
brought them a song which has some of the modal verbs that they were studying. I
also provided them some questions regarding to the song, it was like a mini
quiz about it.
They had to choose the right answer so it helped them to
practice the topic, this activity was individually. After that I divided the
class in two groups, I prepared some sentence strips so that they could paste them
on the board in the right order while they were listening to the song, I really
liked the activity because I could see them very concentrated on the activity. And
some of them were very encourage doing it because they already knew the song. So as a final task I asked them to perform a
mini role play with one of their classmates, I had two different situations for
them in which I consider they could apply some of the modal verbs.
In the first situation student A was a customer in a
restaurant, and students B was a waiter or a waitress who had to take the
customer´s order.
In the second situation student A was a doctor and
student B was a patient who had a terrible pain, so he/she went to visit the
doctor in order get some medicine to relief the pain.
Because of time some of the students could not
perform the role play. But as we know nothing is perfect, I faced some
situations in the class. Most of the students were very participative but some
others at the time to develop the activities were sitting on their desk and
using their cell phones. But what I did was to ask them in kind way to stand up
and help their classmates to do the activities. But despite those things I can say
that I enjoy the class!!!
hello connie!!!
ResponderEliminarAs you were developing the practice of the topic, you felt even more confortable. I like the way you close the session; indeed, that must have been one of the most meaningful practices for them because they were to think about the situation presented by you.
They were constructing their knowledge and realizing about the structure, during the whole session.
Nice work connie
Hi girl!! luck you because there was no grammar part!!! well, as you were saying some students dont like to participate at all, but our class has to continue. You included a variety of activities that means your students are practicing and learning in different ways.Nicely done!!!
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