Basic 2nd!!

Friday, March, 22nd 2013

On my second experience with the Basic group I can say that my class went much better than the first one as students cooperated more when I asked them to. This time I bought an activity called “Categories” as warm up, it helped students to review previous vocabulary. Because in this activity you say a category of something for example, Fruits, so students start saying names of fruits, and when one student does not say a fruit the Leader changes the category. And the one who didn’t say a fruit has to seat, and you can continue with other categories. After that, I explained Wh-questions with frequency adverbs; students did not have any problem to understand how to make questions as they had been studying questions with the teacher before.

I just can say that to bring fun activities to the classroom encourage students to participate. So, I will continue doing the same so that everyone can participate more in the classroom. We know that every group is different so we have to focus on the needs all students have to make their learning more meaningful. And as Basic students I know some of them are still afraid of participating but if the teacher brings a positive attitude and create a good environment, students for sure will be willing to do their best.

Basic 1st Blog!

Well, teachers we have started the second round already hope that you are enjoying it…

On Friday the 15^th I had my first class with the Basic group of students, I started  by playing a song that contains the days of the week, by the way, I used the one the teacher presented, but it did not work as I had planned it to. Students did not look so interested in that activity; besides, I had some problems with the equipment. It was kind of messy.

But I had to move forward so I gave them some practice as my partner had begun the topic the previous day. They had a reading comprehension about daily routines. They worked on that part successfully. Mostly my class was about practice, I did not explain any grammar point. So the class was based on activities that addressed the macro skills. Something I have notice is that sometimes students do not want to cooperate with the development of the class.

Hopefully that next time they participate more and that I can select or create other activities that they enjoy doing. May be Sara and Ely can name some activities that worked with them, so I can take them into consideration! I will be glad girls. And one more time, I had problem when monitoring students. I leave them working and sometimes I do not go over them to check if they are really working on the task I have ask them to. I do not really know why but I can´t manage that…

Indeed, I have to be more careful when creating the task students have to develop so that students get more interested in my class!! I have notice the difference when teaching intermediate and basic, but there we go.