Teaching Practicum II

Fourth practice

Today I realized more about that a teacher has to take advantage  of  all the little things  to be teaching  the English langauge in the classroom.

I started my practice with a warm-up in which the students were asked to stand up and to make a big semi circle .They had to say a verb in the simple present tense before throwing  the ballooon. They were  said that  if they throw the balloon first without saying the verb previously, they had to sit down.Later, i continued with grammar explanation about the simple past tense and the past continuous tense.Later, I made  a substitution drill in which I had to  read the sentences in the simple present tense,so they had to change them into past tense. At the end of my teaching hour, I received the feedback.The teacher gave me some tips about the speed of reading  and  about the warm- up in which I had to take care of using  warm-ups where the students didn´t  have to sit down if they fail in the activity because  if they sit down, they don´t practice their English.Eventhough the warmer was supposed to make the students to   get in touch with the Language , I had to be careful on that.

Teaching Practicum II

Third Practice


For this time, I was more confortable than before.
After  a long vacation i had planned to start the class with a warm-up that was not designed in the lesson plan because  the warm- up  for this lesson was already made by  the teacher;also, because the students just came back from a long vacation,so I  told the teacher  about the warm-up, he agreed.
After the warm-up, I made a review  of the topic they already started to study, the topic was  the use of non count  and count nouns. Later, I  asked the students to  look at the classroom and think about the  university  for a while and make   ten questions with  "how much" and " how many";then , the students woked in pairs  as I requested; later, we solved it in an oral way.
For, the next exercise,  the students were asked to  prepare  a list of things they  could use for a trip to an island.Later, they were asked to choose a representative  for each goup, there were only  two groups.The resesentatives  went to the board to write as many things as possible in a period of  five minutes.;then, they were asked to  explain why they decided to carry those things to the trip, the purpose was  to make them  speak.
I noticed that they enjoyed it because most of them  participated by volunteering themselves.

 In the feedback, I was told  that i should take time  into acount when  making a warm-up activity .
I agreed because I  felt  I took me too much time  to make it.

Teaching Practicum II

Student: Claudia Carolina Orellana

 During  my  second  Teaching Practice, I  understood that not all us look things in the same way.

 I welcomed the students, so they  said hello to me, too. Then,  I continued the class  by asking them  about  their weekend, some of them said that everyting was fine, etc. Latr, i  made a short warm-up for they to get in touch again with the English class. At the beginning, they did not feel like like participating,but  at the end, they did things in a nice mood.After, I continued with the  grammar  explanation about the use of    such and so .Then, I made the first exercise related to  the topic.They were supposed to  complete the  information  I  wrote  on the board; for example:  The  weather was so ..
Student : The wather was so  cold that I could not  take a shower.
The  dierction  in the lesson plan  said:  " In an written and oral way"
So I  decided to  let the students to make it  in a written  way on their notebooks,when they finished , I asked them to  read the statement on the board and add their own information  at the same time.
In the second exercise I asked them to listen the  information that I   mentioned, so they had to combine the sentences  by using  such... that, I made the exercise in an oral way because i realized that  it was easier for the students just to listen the information and insert the  words  required  in the middle of the two sentences.
I thought that I was right with the  procedure;however in the feed back that the teacher gave me , he said that things had been better if I  had  done the exercise in the opposite way beacuse the first exercise  was suitable for them to do it only  in an oral way and that for the seacond exercise  in the written form.
At the end I  analized his point of view and I noticed that his point of view was right according to  the needs of the students.