Second Teaching Practice 

In this entry, I will tell you about my second practice at English access program. Well, I started my class developing the warm up activity in the basketball field. I could observe that students were really happy during the activity, they were also interacting, and speaking English while having fun.

After that, I developed the second activity in which I pasted some pictures with questions using the future progressive and perfect. So, students were discussing those questions and using the grammar patterns as the teacher suggested me. I could notice that the questions caught students’ attention and they were participating during this activity which I think was good because they were sharing their thoughts.

Finally, I developed the last activity in which  Then, I gave students two pieces of paper in which I asked them  to write an answer per each question.  After that, I asked students to stand up, walk around the classroom and share with their answers. As a final step, I asked them to paste the two pieces on paper on the posters and help me to guess who wrote some sentences. During this activity, students had the opportunity to practice the future progressive and perfect by writing down sentences about their personal life. Besides, it was rewarding to see them motivated to share their sentences with their classmates.   

First Teaching Practice 

Hello, I will tell you about my first teaching practice at English access program during the second period. I taught them about the reported speech.

First, I developed the warm up activity in which students were completing some thoughts according to their ideas. I could notice that students were interacting during this activity and they were also sharing some personal information.

Then, I moved on to the grammar explanation. In this opportunity, I pasted a picture of a girl and a picture of a boy to explain them the grammar rules about the reported speech.  During this step, students were participating a lot. They were giving examples using the reported speech which made me feel really confident. 

After that, I developed a conversation, so I asked students to practice aloud the conversation. I could notice that they were really engaged during this activity and I liked to see that they were reading the conversation very confident and enthusiastic. Then, I gave each student a worksheet with some sentences and I asked them to rewrite the sentences using the reported speech.  During this activity, students were practicing the reported speech and putting into practice all the information that I shared with them during the grammar explanation.

Finally, as students were learning about the topic frenemies, I asked them to think about a question about it. Then, I asked them to ask that question to a partner and report the answer at the end of the activity by sharing it with the whole class. I could observe that students were asking questions related with the topic and I  felt happy because they were using the reported speech when I asked them to report their partner’s answer.

Third Teaching Practicum

Today, Tuesday 9^th, 2017 I had my third teaching practicum and I taught the adverbs with the present perfect tense.

I developed a “find someone who” as a warm up activitiy and as a follow up activity I asked students to share some anecdotes about the sentences. The warm up activity was a good activity because students were sharing personal information.

Then, I had students doing a multiple choice exercise in which they had to underline and choose the best adverb (still, already, yet, etc.) for each sentence. I think that this activity worked well for students because they reinforced their knowledge about the topic.

Besides, I developed an interview activity in which students needed to ask some questions to a partner and write complete sentences using the adverbs and the present perfect. This activity was good because students were interacted and using the grammar patterns.

Finally, I developed the paper airplane activity and I asked students to write one adverb. Then, I asked students to throw the airplane and pick up one. After that I had them walking around the classroom sharing a sentence according to the adverb that they got. After that, I asked students to share some sentences. I consider that students enjoyed this activity as they looked very engaged since the beginning until the end of it. Moreover, I think this activity benefited those kinesthetic students and all the students were speaking and interacting among them.

Second Teaching Practicum

Today, Tuesday 25^th, 2017, I had my second teaching practicum. The topic was the present perfect tense again, but as my mentor suggested me I developed a reading activity.

For the warm up activity, I divided students in two groups and I asked them to make two lines. Well, the idea for this activity was that I said a verb and students had to pass a marker to the last student and she/he had to write a sentence in present perfect using the verb. I consider that this activity was good because students were competing among them and that increased their interest in the activity.

Then, I developed the reading activity and I started with the pre-reading in which I asked students to work in pairs and discuss some questions. After that, I asked them to share their thoughts. Finally, I pasted some pictures about “google” and according to those pictures I asked students to predict about the reading.

For the during activity, I asked students to work in trios and read the article about “google”. Then I had them doing two execises to assess their comprehension about the article.

Finally, for the post reading, students discussed some questions about the use of “google”. I think that this activity allowed students to speak, interact and also benefits those kinesthetic  students as they were moving around the classroom. Moreover, this activity allowed me to interact with students and know about their opinions.

For the last activity, I asked students to write 3 sentences using the present perfect. Then, I had them sharing with their classmates. The only bad aspect was that I did not have time to check students’ sentences, so as my mentor advised me I need to consider the time for my activities so that I can reach my objective very well.

First Teaching Practicum

During this first period, I will be teaching to intermediate English students from the afternoon shift. I had my first class today July 19^th, 2017 and I taught them about the present perfect.

I started my class with the warm up activity in which I had students walking around the classroom and asking diferent questions with “Have you ever…?” I think that this activity was good because students were interacting and speaking since the beginning of the class.

For the controlled practice, I had students working in pairs. Moreover, I used vocabulary about touristic places as the teacher suggested me. This activity allowed students to feel more confident with the use of the present perfect and they learned new vocabulary.

Then, I had students developing the semi-controlled activity in which they were discussing some questions such as how many times have you traveled?, what is the most interesting city/place that you have visited in your country?, among others. During the activity, I could notice that students were really engaged, and they were using the present perfect tense.

For my last activity, I had students developing a gallery walk about touristic places of El Salvador. Besides, some students shared some experiences with me and I liked that because it showed me that they felt comfortable with me and with the activity. However, my mentor told me that I have to be careful with the objective, so I need to improved that aspect for my next class. 

On Friday, 31st, 2017, I had my last teaching practicum of the second period. I can say that it was an amazing experience that I will never forget. In this class, I planned interacting activities to have students active and engaged during the class. I could notice that students liked the activities because since the beginning of the class they were participating a lot.

I developed a warm-up activity in which students had to move around the classroom and share personal information. I also developed a card game in which students walked around the classroom and they needed to ask their classmates to change a direct sentence into reported speech. Moreover, I wanted to benefit students’ different learning styles, so I did the activity “Find someone who…” in which they needed to report what they classmates said. The last activity was a jigsaw, so students discussed about the reliability of internet. As a conclusion, I can say that I achieved my goal because students practiced a lot the reported speech and they spoke the whole class.

  

I really liked to work with the students from the American Access English program because of their willingness to learn English.

I had my second teaching practicum on Monday, March 27^th, 2017. I was in charge of continuing teaching the reported speech and reported questions.

I started the class greeting students. Then, I developed the warm-up activity in which I asked students to work in pairs and discuss one thing that they did on their weekend that was really good.  I liked this warm-up activity because when I asked students to share their opinions, they looked really motivated to talk about what they did, specially because they went to a camping and they were sharing their good moments with me.  

After that, I made a review about the reported speech and reported questions. So, I pasted some examples in direct speech and direct questions and I asked students to help me to change them into reported speech and reported questions. Even though, this is a difficult topic that requires time to manage, students were participating and this is one thing that I liked of them because they tried and they were not afraid to be mistaken.

When I finished the review, I asked students to work on page 87, exercise 1 and read the paragraph paying attention to the structure of the sentences. Then, I asked them what similarities they could notice in the structures of the sentences with the examples that I gave them before in order to have them realize about reported questions.

Finally, I had students working on exercise 6. In this last activity, they had to choose the kind of reporter they would like to be, write the name of a famous person and 5 questions they would like to ask the famous person. Then, I had them working in pairs telling them that one would be the reporter and the other one the famous person, so the reporter had to take notes about the answers of the famous person using reported speech and reported questions.