THE LAST ONE

The last Tuesday was my last class in the English Access. I arrived some minutes before the class in order to arrange the place. As always, students helped my with the desks. The class started with a warm greeting. I prepared a warm up as a speaking activity. Every corner into the classroom had a name like: food, drink, fruit, and vegatables. Students went to each corner and they talked about what is their favorite food, drink, fruit and vegetable. After some minutes they shared the information with the whole group. The topic was countable and uncountable nouns and the content was food. For the presentation of the topic I prepared a conversation with a PDP activity. The pre activity was pre teach the vocabulary. During the activity students read the conversation twice and underline the food, and the post activity was answer some question orally. The grammar notes was classify countable and uncountable food in a chart on the board. I explaned the used of the words "some" and "any" and I gave them some examples. The last activity was to complete some sentences with the words some and any. And finally. it was the class ending. The class was really nice, I enjoyed the last class of the semestre. Teaching in English Access was great because students like to learn English and they make the class easier to teach.

"My second class in the English Access"

My second class was the last Monday. I arrived some minutes before the class and students were there, and again they helped me to arrange the desks. I wrote the date, the objective and the agenda on the board again. I started the class with a greeting, i asked student how was their weekend?, and what they did the last class with teacher Salvador? After that I tried to remember all their names but it was a little bit difficult and that´s why I asked them to write their names in a piece of paper again. The warm up of this class was a adjective race. I divided the class into two groups and They were in a a line in front of the board in order to write the correct form of the adjective. I said the superlative form of happy and students ran to the board and wrote the correct word. It was a nice game, I think students enjoyed the game and they did a review of the topic because the topic was superlative and comparative adjectives. The first activity of this class was to unscramble a conversation, I gave them a short conversation in pieces and they unscramble the conversation I gave them 5 minutes to wotrk on this activity and they did it in pairs. I read the conversation so they could check the right order and them they read it in pair to the whole class. The second activity was to complete some sentences using a superlative of comparative adjective I gave them some minutes in order to complete 10 sentences after some minutes they share the answers with the whole class. The third activity was to create comparative and superlative adjectives about The Flingstones such as: Ban ban is stronger than Pebles, etc. I gave them a page with the picture of the cartoon and some adjective. Some minutes before they read the sentences using "The pop corn activity" I read the first sentences and then I said pop corn to Mario. Mario read a sentences and then he said pop corn to Haydee, and so on. The bell rang and it was the end of the class. In my opinion it was a nice class. Students participated in the activities and they practiced creating sentences with superlative and comparative adjectives.

"My First class in the English Access"

This was a new experience! My first class at the English Acces was pretty good. I arrived to the classroom some minutes ago in order to prepared the classroom for the class, but my surprise was that all the students were there on time and they started to help me to arrenge the desks. They were so kind with me. I wrote the date, the objective, and the agenda on the board. After that, I started with the class I greeted the students and asked them to write their names in a piece of paper in order to memorized their names. The warm up was the hot potato; we had a lot of fun with this game studets passed the ball and they picked up a piece of paper with a sentence and they must to complete the sentence usign sentences verb + gerunds because this was the topic of the class. The first activity was to write about likes and dislike of Garfield the cartoon according to some pictures. At the end of the activity everybody called out the sentences. The second activity was to write likes and dislikes about themselves usign some phrases such as: I like playing basketball. (verb + gerund) I love...., I enjoy..., and so on. The class was really nice because students facilitate the work of the teacher they really liked to speak English all the time. They are always asking "teacher how do you say ____ in English" or they are looking for the word in the dictionary. It was a great experience because teaching teeneger you think that it is going to be a difficult experience, but it was the opposite.

My last class of the second period!

Hi. This week was my last class in Intermediate English l. For this class I prepared a power point presentation. The topic was "comparatives and superlatives" but I already had explained the grammar notes, this class was only practice. I arrived early to the university in order to connect the projector and checked the presentation, and i did it and everything was OK! because I prepared a video in order to review the grammar. After that I arranged the classroom. , and check and prepared the material and organized the desks in a semi circle. The class started and I greeted the students. We read the objective of the class and as a warm up I prepared an "adjective race" we developed this activity outside the classroom in the hall. I divided the class in two teams; I called out " the comparative form of happy" and students ran and write the correct form. After that we came back to the classroom and we did a review of the grammar notes about the topic. we read the concepts again and we watched a video. I had already checked the video and it was perfect, but in the moment that I presented the video; I do not know what happened but we only watched half of the video because the video got stuck :'( I continue with the practice and we developed 4 exercises. First I read the first part of a sentence and they had the second part pasted on the desk. The second exercise was about complete the sentences with the correct adjective. The third exercise we compared two pictures.

                                        

We wrote sentences about he pictures of the left. Example:

The smoke coming from the chimney is__________(small, big). 

The last exercise was a mini debate. one time support countryside and the other one the city. This activity was really nice because everybody participated and all the students share their thoughts. At the end I thanked the students and I gave some advices to the students such as: speak English all the time, study a lot. and I told them that they are a nice group and that I learned a lot with them.