SECOND CLASS III PERIOD II TERM

Second Practice, III period, II term

Monday, November 10th 2014

Jose Daniel Medina Aguirre

  

Well, this class began at three thirty pm., and it was going to be the introduction of a new unit.  The first thing I did was a game called “guess what the word is”. First, I put two desks in front of the class. Then, I asked to them for two volunteer who were going to be seated in front of the class. The rest of the students were going to mimic and do gestures to name the word but not to speak, and the two students were going to guess what the word was. This game was very interesting, and the students got much fun.  

Second, I wrote the phrase “personal care” on the board, and I started to ask to the students what came to their minds when they hear the phrase. They gave their answers and from those ideas I got to the main topic.

Third, I presented a list of personal item, because the topic was personal care and appearance, and I asked them to repeat. As they did not know those words, I continued with the next activity, which was called “Guess what is in my bag”. I asked them to make a circle, and in a bag I had a set of the same pictures from the list. So, I asked them to guess what I had in the bag, and they said for example: you have a comb, later, I got a pictures and if was not the one they mentioned, I said: no, this is deodorant or the one I got, and I also asked to them what do we use the deodorant for? And so on, until the last picture. 

To finish the class, I presented to them a conversation. They had to follow the pattern and create a conversation similar to the one I took. Even they could change the item and put their own. They had to write it first, then to practice, and later to perform it. Because of the time, I demanded just three participation. In addition, to do it democratically, I took a medium dice, which I throw to the ground and the number that it got that was going to be number of pairs that were going to participate. They did it nicely and it was a great class for me.