My second teaching class, II term, I periodo

My second teaching class/ 2^nd term 2014

Thursday, August 21^st - 2014

Jose Daniel Medina Aguirre

Well, my second class was nice. I did start my class on time and I started with a warm up called “guess the word”. I asked one student to come to the front of the class and sit back to the board. Later, I wrote a word on the board and the rest of the student had to mimic the word for the chosen student guessed what the word was. As the topic of this class was “money matters”, I wrote the words money, bill, buy, save, and piggy bank. Indeed, it was very funny. The student were all mimicking and laughing at the same time. Actually, I spent about five minutes in doing this activity.

Afterwards, my second activity was a reading. I asked the students to go to their books on page 28, exercise A. I started asking three students to read the passage. Then, I gave them a couple of minutes to read the passage and underline new words. Later, I ask them to read all together. When they had finished reading all together, I explained to them the new words they had found out. To finish this section, I asked to them some question related to the previous reading and they discussed the questions related to the topic.

Then, I was going to develop a listening section. For that, I was going to play the listening for three times. The first time, the students were going to listen only. For the second time, I ask them to come to the front, and I gave to them a strip of paper that contained a sentence written on. The students were going to listen again and be ready to hear the word they had been give because among the right sentences there were some distractors. So the last time I played the listening, they had to be ready to paste with masking tape the right answers on the blanks in the chart standing on the board. Finally, I asked the students to find out new words. As they did not find out new word, I stopped the class right after that.  

My first class, 2 term I period

My first teaching class/ 2^nd term 2014

Thursday, August 14^th- 2014

Jose Daniel Medina Aguirre

Following the teaching classes in the second term, my first class was on Thursday, August 14^th  2014. I started my class about five to seven a.m. because something happened. I arrived a little bit late to give my class because of the schedule and the traffic. I did start happily, though. I started with a warm up, and it was about “what’s your name and your favorite superhero?”. As it was my first class, I did it to know their names and have a little fun. I spent in this activity over four minutes. 

After this activity, I had to make a review of the past topic, and it was noun clauses. Well, the teacher had given me a page with three categories: noun clauses beginning with THAT, with QUESTIONS WORDS and with WHETHER or IF.

I was feeling just as worried because of the topic, but nevertheless, I was prepared to this. I prepared sentences strips with the same sentences that were on the sample page. Later on, I gave to every student a sentence to be analyzed.  I wrote on the board the three categories, and I asked the students to identify the noun clauses and their function, whether they were functioning as subject, object or complement, for later to be pasted on the board in each category.  I spent about ten minutes doing this.

Well, the second and the last activity was an identification practice. I gave a page to every student. That was a worksheet. Over there, there were twelve sentences in which the students had to continue classifying noun clauses and identifying their function as well. For this, I pretended to have a little fun, and I played the hot potato game for all the students to participate classifying the noun clauses and underlining their function in a chart that I prepared. This chart was the same that the students had in the pages I had given to them. It was interesting for me because they did not do the same things all the time, and they were laughing with this game.  Therefore, they did everything nicely, and finished my class exactly at seven thirty a.m.