MODALS (MY THIRD CLASS)

I AM SO HAPPY TODAY AND I THANK GOD  BECAUSE TIME FLIES AND I TAUGHT THE LAST WITH THIS GROUP. 

I DID NOT EXPLAIN GRAMMAR IN THIS CLASS BECAUSE SARA DID IT, SO FOR THE WARM UP I PASTED FOUR SMALL CHARTS WITH THE CLASSIFICATION OF MODALS: PERMISSION, PROHIBITON, OBLIGATION, AND NO OBLIGATION. THEY HAD TO CLASSIFY EIGHT SENTENCES THAT I BROUGHT, SO THEY HAD TO PASTE THEM IN THE CORRECT COLUMN OF THE MODAL.

FOR THE PRESENTATION, I PASTED A CHART WITH THE RULES IN A HOTEL. THEY HAD TO COMPLETE SOME FILLING IN THE BLANKS SENTENCES THAT WERE WRITTEN IN ANOTHER CHART USING A MODAL.

THIS CLASS WAS TO PRACTICE WHAT THEY HAD UNDERSTOOD IN THE PREVIOUS ONE, SO FOR THAT REASON, I BROUGHT THREE ACTIVITIES.

THE FIRST ACTIVITY WAS A FILLING IN THE BLANKS PRACTICE. THEY HAD TO FILL IN THE BLANKS USING HAVE TO, HAS TO, DON´T HAVE TO, OR DOESN´T HAVE TO. I COULD SEE THAT UNDERSTOOD BECAUSE MOST OF THEM DID NOT HAVE ANY MISTAKE.

IT WAS TIME FOR PAIR GROUP, I GAVE THEM A SHEET OF PAPER SOME SIGNALS THAT INDICATES PROHIBITION, SO THEY HAD TO WRITE WHAT THE SIGNAL INDICATES, FOR EXAMPLE:

YOU CAN'T USE CELL PHONES IN THIS CLASS

THEN, THEY CONTINUE WORKING IN PAIRS, I GAVE THEM A WORKSHEET WHICH WAS DIVIDED INTO TWO COLUMNS: THINGS THAT I HAVE TO DO ON SATURDAY, AND THIGS THAT I DON'T HAVE TO DO. FINALLY, THEY SHARED WHAT THEY HAD WRITTEN.

FOR THE WRAP UP, I DIVIDED THE CLASS INTO TWO GROUPS. I PASTED A BOND PAPER AND THEY HAD TO WRITE THREE THING THAT ARE PROHIBED IN "THEIR PERFECT TOWN". THEY ENJOYED THIS ACTIVITY BECAUSE THEY COULD WRITE WHATEVER THEY WANT.

TO SUM UP, IT WAS A NICE EXPERIENCE BECAUSE IT WAS A LARGER GROUP, SO YOU HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WITH THE ACTIVITIES THAT YOU BRING TO THE CLASS.

THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS!!!

GOD BLESS YOU!!!!

PHRASAL VERBS (SECOND CLASS)

HELLO DEAR CLASSMATES! I TAUGHT PHRASAL VERBS IN MY SECOND CLASS IN INTERMEDIATE ENGLISH I. IT IS A LITTLE BIT COMPLICATING TO TEACH BECAUSE STUDENTS ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH SOME PREPOSITIONS OR ADVERBS THAT YOU USED TO FORM A PHRASAL VERB.

FOR THE WARM UP, I PLAYED "THE TEACHER SAYS". I DID IT USING SOME PHRASAL VERBS SUCH US: TURN THE LIGHT OFF, PUT YOUR CELL PHONE AWAY, STAND UP, SIT DOWN, ETC. STUDENTS ENJOYED THIS ACTIVITY BECAUSE IT WAS A TPR, SO THEY DO NOT GET BORED.

THIS TIME, I HAD TO TEACH GRAMMAR. I KNEW THAT IT WAS NOT EASY, SO I MADE A CHART WITH EIGHT PHRASAL VERBS. IN ONE COLUMN WAS THE VERB, NEXT THE MEANING, FINALLY, THERE WAS AN EXAMPLE USING THAT PHRASAL VERB. I COULD SEE THAT IT FUNCTIONED BECAUSE STUDENTS UNDERSTOOD MY EXPLANATION.

THEN, I DID A FILLING IN THE BLANKS PRACTICE. STUDENTS HAD TO WRITE THE CORRECT PHRASAL VERB, AND AS GUIDE, I GAVE THEM A GLOSSARY WITH THE PHRASAL VERBS THAT THEY COULD USE AND THE CORRESPONDING MEANING.

THE LAST ACTIVITY THAT I DID WAS TO ASK THEM TO MAKE GROUPS OF FIVE, AND THEY HAD TO SHARE SOME QUESTIONS USING THE PHRASAL VERBS THAT I GAVE THEM. FINALLY, I ASKED THEM TO SHARE THE QUESTIONS WITH THE WHOLE GROUP.

WELL, AS YOU COULD SEE, IT WAS AN INTRODUCTION OF A NEW TOPIC, SO IT WAS A HARD CLASS TO ME. HOWEVER, I AM HAPPY BECAUSE STUDENTS ARE LEARNING MORE DAY BY DAY.

THANKS FOR YOUR COMMENTS!

My First Class, Second Period

Hello class! let me tell you that I feel so glad to share my experience on this class with you because I put all my effort to teach a good class. I think this time my grade is not important to me because I just love teaching and I really liked and enjoyed the class that I taught today in Intermediate English I in the morning.

But, How was my class?

Well, this group is kind of hard because they don't pay attention most of the time and they are doing other things while the teacher is explaining. However, what Sara and I did was to establish the rules in our class at the very beginning. We pasted some flashcards on the door with the rules, such as an image that showed that cellphones were not allowed in our class, repect the class, and the teacher, be in class on time, etc

The topic was Comparative Adjectives, so for the Warm up, I pasted a chart with an advertisement about two digital cameras with the price of each of them and the characteristics that they offer. The main point was to make comparisons between the advantages of the cameras, as you can see in the following picture:

In the presentation, I showed them two leave, one big and the other one bigger than the other one. What I did was to compare the leaves like this:

"This leaf is big, but this leaf is bigger than the other one". I repeated the same procedure with two small leaves, then I asked for two volunteers to make the comparisons.

It is difficult when you have to teach grammar, but I tried to do it in a way to catch their attention. I did charts with the rules for comparatives. I thought that it was better to do it in colorful paper, and it funtioned because they paid attention and they cooperated giving examples.

Then, it was time to practice. I asked them to make pairs and they worked in a filling in the blanks practice. It is a really large group, so for this activity I divided them in groups of 5. I gave them a piece of paper with two things to compare and an adjective, they had to make a sentence using those words and share the sentence with their classmates.

For the wrap up, I asked for five volunteers to come to the front. They had an adjective written in a part of the piece of paper that we gave them at the beginnig, so those volunteers had to write a sentence using the adjective that they had (in the comparative form)

It was my class in general, I am so glad because I enjoyed it. Thanks for your comments!