ADVANCED II LAST CLASS

IN THIS LAST CLASS THAT WAS YESTERDAY (MAY 22, 2013)
I continued with the practice and i developed a listening practice and speaking practice.

I was a little bit nervous because I would record my video in this class, but later I forgot about it and I focused to teach my class.

WARM UP ACTIVITY:
BOARD GAME: "DO WHAT YOU GET"
I  created a board game in which students had to develop many tasks that it contained.
Students had to pass a ball and the person who had the ball would take a number from a box the number were from 1 to 9 when the student had the number they had to develop the tasks to the corresponding number that he/she got. and so on..

Then I developed a listening practice in the inside out book.

They worked in page # 76 exercises 1, 2, and 3

In the first exercise they had to work with a partner and talk about some decisions that they would like to take in the future.

For example: getting a tattoo, having a plastic surgery, running for an election, etc.

In the second exercise:

They had to hear four conversations about some people that talked about some decision that they would take. Students had to match the number of the picture with the letter.

In the third exercise: students had to recognize some phrases that they heart in the conversation and said in which conversation they heart the phrase.

But I had some problem with this activity because the majority of them didn’t have the book and I didn’t know, so I made groups, but they didn’t work very well because some of them were talking, others were looking the cellphones and doing other things and they did not pay attention the listening because they could not see very well the exercise in the book since they were 7 or 6 in the groups and they only had one or two books per group. After all, I developed the activity and we checked the answer together.

Then I had prepared a speaking activity for the end of the class.

They worked in groups of three and they had to invent a new gadget and presented the new gadget to the people of the class. They had to take into account:

What kind of gadget will be?
How will we use it?
And what will be the advantages to create this gadget?

Then two groups shared their gadgets in front to the whole class. It was a nice activity because they worked in groups (cooperative learning) and also they developed their critical thinking and their imagination because they were thinking about the new gadget they had to create.

Then I said good bye to the group.

I learned many things from this group, one of them is that we need to practice every day our English in order to improve it because they practice their English every day and it is very good.

 

 

 

 

 

ADVANCED II SECOND CLASS

THE SECOND CLASS...

It was on tuesday 21 may 2013.

That day, the students were worried because they would have a reading test, i thought that It would affect my class, but thanks god it was not a problem for me and they payed attention and worked very well in the class.

This was a class just for practice about the previos topic "speculating about the future"

WARM UP: I divided the class in two groups and they formed two lines in front to the board. Then I shouted out the modals and students had to write a sentence using the modal that I shouted out the student who finished first to wrote the sentence and if the sentences was correctly and grammatically written they got a point for the group. At the end group that had more points was the winner and I gave them candies. :)

 first practice I gave them two exercises for the controlled practice:

A filling the gaps exercise and unscramble sentences exercise.

In the first exercises, they did it very well and didn't have problems, but in the second they could not unscramble the sentences because they were so difficult and some of the took a lot of time to do the exercises so it was a problem for me because I couldn't continue with the class, but later I told them that they had to stop to do them. Then we checked the answer together and they did the exercise very.

Since I said before I had problems with the time so i did not have enough time to develop the second acticity that was about speaking.

They worked in pairs and they had to choose two questions and talk about them, then they had  to share their ideas with the whole class.

Questions:

Do you think you will ever apper on televsion?

Do you think you  will ever travel around the world?

Do you think you will ever win the lottery?... etc.

 

But not all them had the opportunity to share with the whole class only two pairs shared their ideas because i didn't have enough time to continue with the class.

 

ADVANCED II FIRST CLASS...

This third period I was teaching to the group of advanced II with teacher Walter Alvarenga, It was a nice experience for me because I learned many things from the students.

And eventhough i had some difficulties and I am not perfect and I am happy because I gave my best in every class.

IN THE FIRST CLASS:

In order to start the class I developed a warm up activity, it was a game call " pass the ball" students formed a cirlcle and passed the ball  while i played the music when i stopped the music the student  who had the ball got a penalty that was to say a sentence using a modal of speculation.  thanks God all the students participated in the activity. This motivate the students to participate in the class.

 I am very lucky (hahahah) and I had to explain the grammar part of the topic: speculating about the future modals of speculation.

I started with a brainstorming, I asked the question "what comes to your mind when do you hear the word speculating?" and they said words relating to the word speculating.

Then i said do you remember the modals of speculation? which are they?

I started to explain the topic.

I Presented the definition about modals of  speculation in a chart and all the modals in some pieces of color paper. 

Later I explained some example about speculations.

PRACTICE:

In the first practice:  I gave them a filling the gaps activity in which they had to  choose and write the correct modals for every sentence.

And it was so nice when you saw all the students working in the task that you prepared for them.

I had some problems with the time because I wished to have more time to develop more activities.

Then I developed a speaking activity  in which they worked in groups of  three and they have to talked about some probabilities for the future using the modals of speculation.

this is the exercise:

what is the probability  that ... and they had the following options to talk about

A cure of cancer will be found...

We will travel in time...

Everything will be digital...

We will live in a digital world...

We will be destroy by a giant asteroid..

A computer will be more intelligent than a human... etc.

then they talked about two probalities they talked in their groups.