Level: Advanced I
Section: "A"
Hello dear classmates, welcome to my blog.
This semester, I want to start with positive mind and good attitude
so let's talk about my first experience...
Today, I had my first experience in my teaching practicum,
and it was very nice because I gave my best and I tried to improve many
important details of my classes in which I had problems the last semester.
I arrived to the classroom at 6:45 a.m. it was so good
because I had enough time to arrange the seating and the material that I would
use; thanks God, the students came on time to the class and I could star early.
Then I developed the warm up, it was a game called hot
potato (you already knew the procedure) the penalties were questions about the
topic previously studied (verb patterns).
For the presentation, I presented some charts about the verb
patterns in order to develop a short review about the topic.
When I was writing some examples on the board; I made a
writing mistake (I wrote " I helped her clean the hose") and I asked
the students: Is it ok people?
And one of them told me: no, it is not. I said...why?
He answered me because you missed the "u".
I laughed (J lol) and I felt embarrassed;
But I hope, I had only this error. J
I started with the practice; the controlled practice was a
filling in the blanks exercises in which students had to put the verb of the
parenthesis into the gerund or infinitive with "to".
Then the semi-controlled was an oral practice in which
students worked in pairs and they had to talk about the following question:
what activities do you enjoy doing ... they had the options: on weekends, with
friends, in class, when you are on vacation, to relax and when you are alone?
They had to choose an option and talked with their partner
about it; for example, I enjoy playing baseball on weekends. I enjoy...?
At the end I develop the free practice: students had to write a paragraph talking
about what activities they enjoy doing on weekends, then some of them shared which
they enjoy doing on weekend.
I finished my class on time so I can say that now I have a
better control of my time this is something that I needed to improve.
Thanks for reading my blog…
