My 1rst class!!! (1rs Period)

This is my first class of the Teaching Practicum II, and in this period I have to teach Intermediate English Level I with twenty five students.

In today’s class, I had to teach a new topic related with names, but at the same time I had to review some tenses that the students have already studied in the previous semester.

I started the class with a warm-up for which I pasted some pieces of paper around the classroom containing wh-questions and the students had to stand up and make groups of three and answer the questions with their own information.

I liked that activity because they got entertaining answering some funny questions and they were inventing things in order to answer them. After that, I made five groups of five students, and I gave to each group a reading, but it was cut into small pieces of paper.

Each group had to put the reading in order and then they had to read it. I was monitoring each group and asking if they had questions about new words or about pronunciation. Finally, I asked to each group what the reading was about, and they answered in the correct way. I think it was a good idea to do the activity in that way because the students didn’t get bored, and also my tutor congratulated me for my creativity and good job in this class.

After that, I gave a page to each student that contained a puzzle in which the students had to search some verbs in a wordsearch in order to complete the sentences that appeared in the bottom of the page. I liked the students’ motivation toward the activity because since the time I gave the puzzles they got very cheerful and they started to solve it in a quickly way.

I felt very comfortable in this class because I already knew the students and tutor, and that made feel more confidence of my knowledge.