MY SECOND CLASS (SECOND PERIOD)

Today was my second class in intermediate English l. I planned the class very carefully because I wanted to have a nice class. My tutor gave me the lesson plan, but I modify a little bit the activities. I arrived to the classroom 30 minutes after the class, but my surprised was that the classroom was busy with another class so I waited for some minutes. I arranged the classroom. In this class I organized the desks in a semi circle.

 I prepared the charts, I stuck papers with the name of the students on the desks, I wrote the date, the objective, and the agenda on the board. The students came to the classroom and the class started some minutes later. I greeted the students, and we read the objective. 

The warm up was really nice. I gave the students some paper with frequency adverbs. The students invented a question using “how often”, after that they chose a classmate and asked the question. The other classmate must answer with the frequency adverb that he or she had in the paper. Example: student 1: How often do you take a shower? Student 2 had in the paper “yearly” the student 2 answers I take a shower, yearly.  

The presentation of the topic was a reading. Students read a newspaper article about activities that teenagers in UK do in their free time.

The grammar notes, I explained this part using charts. I stuck the topic “Adverbs of frequency” and what adverbs of frequency are: 

“Adverbs of Frequency are Adverbs of Time that answer the question "How frequently?" or "How often?" They tell us how often something happens”.
 

I gave them some examples of adverbs of frequency. And I explained students that we separate these adverbs into two groups:

1- Adverbs of definite frequency

Examples:

• hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly
• every second, once a minute, twice a year

2- Adverbs of indefinite frequency

Examples:

• never, seldom, sometimes, often, always

I gave them the rules of the adverbs of frequency and their position in the sentence. I gave them examples as well. After that students practice the grammar notes looking the adverbs of frequency in a crossword puzzle, and creating a sentence per adverb.

In my opinion, it was a nice class because students enjoyed the activities and they answer pretty well the activities.