Week nine: Listening

Topic: Food

This blog is going to be a little bit different, this time it was my group that presented the topic. we taught the topic food and it was a PDP lesson in this time was a listening; First, we started the class with an amazing warm up which was "what is in the box" I like this activity because students were having fun and they review the vocabulary as well, this warm up consisted in putting food inside of a box and the students try to guess what was the name of the food. 

After that my Classmate Moises did the two presentations, in the first one he presented the new vocabulary which was kind of easy, then there was a question in the audio so he explained the question and the positive and negative answer, later on he gave them a worksheet to see if they understood.

Then it was Mauricio's time he did the three during activities and they were really nice, in the first one they need to do different movements related to the positive and negative answer, then they did a "putting in order" worksheet and the last one was about to paste on the board the missing words from the song.

Last part was my responsibility so as a post listening we decided to ask them to write two sentences one positive and one negative about the food they like and do not like and then they draw the food, something really nice about this was that they did an amazing job at the end and the had learned a lot. to finished with the class we did as a wrap up one activity using an Hula Hula and it was very fun for everybody.

to sum up I just want to say that we had improved a lot and I think this time all of us were relax and we enjoy to teach we apply what we like about other classes and we also tried to do our best, in my opinion we did an excellent job and I hope to continue like this in the future.

Week eight: Vocabulary

Topic: Food

It was time to teach vocabulary and my classmates did a nice a job. This week Gabriela, Lidvi and Damaris taught a new topic which was Food; First, they started the class with a review of the previous topic that was animals, they did a guess the draw game and it was a great activity.

During the presentation stage they used a powerpoint presentation that was very useful. something really wonderful about this was that  some of the students had a bit of knowledge about the topic and it was easier for the teachers to teach the topic; in the other hand, something maybe they would do different is that at the moment of presenting they had forgot to gave to the students enough time to copy the words, also they did ask if they had finish before they changed the slice.

The second part of the class was the practice which was divide in to different activities. to started with this stage, they did a match in this part the instructions were understanble and the activity was monitoring as well. The second activity was a letter soup,in my opinion I think this kind of activities are very interesting and in this case the students were so fast finding the words and I considered they had enjoy it, something I like was that the activity was monitoring and they say nice phrases to the students.

The last part of the class was the production. In this case the activity was about to draw three of the favorite food of each student and at the end the objective was achieved because most of them produce.

In my future classes I will apply some of the activities they used and I will consider to use a powerpoint presentation, in the other way I will be careful about the time students need to copy ot do the activities.

Week seven: Listening

Topic: Professions

We are now in the seventh week and this week was a lit bit challenlling, first the students now have more capacity to follow the class and that is good, but it also mean that we need to do more activities or to increase a lit bit the difficulty. The other reason of why I am saying that this week was more challenlling is that the group of Carlos, Paola and Manuel just had one student, so the teacher Ask us to be part of the class. 

 What I like about this class was that first even they were teaching us, they continue the class like if they were teaching children, also I love the management of the material they had. Another thing I consider it was really nice was that they had a good balance between the kid and us, they were teaching ud in a neutral way so that the kid was not affraid of being there with us doing the activities. 

We all know that as a teacher we need to do our best and we need to give our betst too, I think this gruop take things really relax but at the same time they were organized. In the other way things I suggest that they can do better maybe they can be more careful with the materials on the board because in one part they need space, but they did not have it because of the picture that were there, also they need to be very clear with the instructions, remember that kids can follow short and direct instructions, do not talk that much at the  moment of an instruction.

They are good and not that good aspects in all the classes, but we can learnd from all of the classes and all fo our classmates, in my future classes things that I consider will be very hepful are the use of masking tape,but to have it ready for the students, also that short activities are good for the students and we can use more of them.

In general I realice that this one of the most challenlling classes because they needed to balance, and they did it, they are such a nice gruop I hope to see them working better and better.

Week six: Vovabulary

Topic: Pofessions

It is already the sixth week and the Students are learning so fast, now we need to work more in the activities in order to catch the attetion of them. This week was time to teach vocabulary about professions and it was the turn of teachers Angie, Claudia, Brenda and Nahielly. Since the beginning I knew that These girl will do a fantastic job and I was correct, they did a nice job with the Ss. 

At the beginnig of the warm up there were just two Students inside of the classroom, but they started the class just with them, some minutes after that others Ss arrived and they continue with the activity that was actually very fun for the Ss it was a ¨finding the couple¨ game and something I saw that it was difficult for the Ss was that the Teacher ask ¨Is it the same one? ¨ and they did not understand at first, but she gave an example they catched. 

After that one the teachers did something that catch my attetion and it was that she move the Ss to have all of them together, and I like it because in that way she controled the class in a better way,also it was nice to saw that she was helping everybody and that Ss were having fun by doing the activities.

Then, they did one activity to help the memorization of the new vocabulary, it was a missing game in which the teacher took one of the pictures of the proffesions and Ss said which one was not there.

everybody participated and they were sitting on the floor, in my opinion I think is good to be out of the desks for some minutes in that way Ss do not get tired of the class. At the end of the class Ss did a short presentation about professions and at the end of the class the objective was achieved and as I said at the beginning this was an awesome class.

To sum up, I really enjoy to be in this class, the girls were really careful with everything, the material was nice, the activities were excellent and their acttitude was very good, and of course in my classes I want to take some ideas from them, like the use of masking tape of to play with the Ss on the floor in one activity, those things that I really enjoy, I hold my words,you did a pretty nice job, just few details, do not forget that we can use spanish or give examples when they do not get one question or command, also that we cannot ask if they understand, but those are little details that maybe we do not notice, to finish this let me give my congratulations girls I really love your class continue like that.