MY FIRST CLASS IN BASIC LEVEL:
Well, I am in the Basic English group with teacher Karen de
Orellana. In my first day of teaching I was a kind of nervous because I knew
that it was a different group and I didn’t know what expected from the students
and the teacher. This is the second time that I am doing that and every
experience it is different and unique because we always have many good things
and things that we need to improve in order to be better teacher in the future.
This time, it was a very nice experience because I did my
best and taught in the best way I had been doing before .
This is what I did in the class:
After that, I presented the new topic (frequency adverbs) with
a short discussion using the following question: “what do you like to do every
day? Then I showed them some flashcards about hobbies and activities that they would
like to do in order to present the new vocabulary that they would use in the
sentences. I used many repletion drills in this part of the vocabulary.
Later on, I had to explain the grammar notes of the topic:
frequency adverb, as we know the part of grammar it is difficult and you have
to be careful in which you are going to explain because sometimes the students
get confused and most if it is the first time that they study the topic. This
is what happened to me, I was very nervous, but I tried to explain and I
provided many examples.
In this time, I used a chart to explain the topic and it was
very useful for me because I prepared it with dedication and I paid attention
to every detail and information that I included in the chart, and I didn’t have
to write in the board and made some spelling mistakes that could confuse the
students.
Also I gave them an appendix in which I include the
explanation an the usage of the frequency adverbs in a sentence.
As final task, they
wrote 2 sentences using frequency adverbs, after they had to share them with
the whole class and I wrote some of their sentences on the board in order to
check if they were ok, later I developed
a repletion drill using the sentence that they dictated to me.
It has been great to teach in this group because they like
to participate in the class, I really like this group, they are so nice. It was
a nice experience this first class…
