the last class with Basic English :(

 

The last day of my class with the group of basic english was so sad because i didn't want to leave this wonderful and amazing group.
I started this last class greeting my students then i continued with the warm up activity that was a game called "shout the sentence",that is about to Write some  sentences on the board and give the students one minute to memorize one of them, the students should keep their sentence secretally. Then, clean out the board and have the students find a partner, they should count 1, 2, 3 and then “shout their secret sentence to each other”, at the same time. If both students shout the same, they can sit down, if not, they will have to continue looking for another partner and shout the sentences to each other until they find someone whose sentences is the same, but I had many problems with this activity and I had to repeat the directions 3 times because the students did not understand the activity, it was a little difficult to develop because 6 or more people had the same sentences so that they did not know what to do  and it was chaos, but finally they chose a person and i could end the game.

it was so terrible, i got nervous and did not know what to do because in other occasions i did not have any problem developing the warm up activity.
 I think this kind of activities are a little bit difficult to the student of this level; also it could be the way that i developed it because i had another idea how to develop it, but i did not want to change how it was in the lesson plan.

But i know that all these experiences are part of the process and I am improving my teaching skill.
Then i develop a short reading: "Wilson's party" in order to present the topic that was the simple past tense with this activity i developed three tasks: underline the verbs in past, write 3 sentences using the simple past and pairs coversation talking about the last party they went.
Then i present a brief grammar explanation.

After all  i said bye to the group  and the teacher, and how grateful i was with them.

 

SECOND CLASS (BASIC ENGLISH)Today’s class was very nice since I was not worried to explain the grammar part. The students were practicing the frequency adverbs in different activities that I chose for them.
I tried to do my class very dynamic because sometimes the class in which the student only had practice and practice they got bored easily and the class became tedious. I included a variety of activities in which all the students participated.
As warm up I developed the game call “pass the ball”
The students had to pass the ball while I was doing a sound when I stopped to do it, they had to stop and the student who had the ball had to take a piece of paper that contained some frequency adverbs so that they had to tell a sentence using the frequency adverbs from the piece of paper, but as reward for their participation there were some pieces of paper that had the word "candy" so that they won a candy. It was very nice and fun.
when we did this kind of activities in which we stimulated and motivate them to continue participating in the class.
The second activity that I developed it was a controlled practice they were exercises about to write the correct position of the frequency adverb in the sentences. later they worked with scramble sentences, after that I used those sentences to develop a repetition drill.
But not everything was ok because I had a problem one asked me about the meaning of a word in one the sentences and I had forgotten the meaning and I said “I don’t know, but wait a minute I will tell you later “so that I had to ask the teacher for help, thanks god she is very nice and kind and she told me the meaning of the word so that I could say the students what it meant.
 Also I had another inconvenient; some students didn’t pay attention in the class since they were worried because they would have a mini presentation after my class so they were stressed and worried, but I tried to motivate them and later they were participating in the class.
Later I gave them a short reading about hobbies (Mary’s hobbies) and there had two tasks: the first one was about underline the frequency adverbs that appeared in the reading; the second one multiple-choice activity in which they had to underline the correct answers.
And I ended my class with the last activity that was orally, they had to talk about their hobbies and how often they do or practice them.
i am so happy because i have improved my teaching skill in every class and i have gotten more experinces on that.