"NEW GROUP" My first class of the second period

Second period. I started to teach the last Wednesday in a new group, Intermediate English I. The class was from 5:40 to 6:30 p.m. there were 13 students. As always, I arrived to the classroom some minutes before the class in order to arrange the classroom for the class. I organized the desks in a semi circle, I opened the windows, and I prepared the material for the class.

The students arrived to the classroom, and the class started. My tutor introduced me and after that I greeted to my classmates I said my name again and I wrote it on the board. I asked for their names, and I already had their names written in a pieces of papers, so when they told me their names I gave them the pieces of paper and they stuck it on the desk in order I could see their names during the class.

I wrote the date on the board and asked to the students "what did you do the last class?" everybody raised the hand in order to answer because they had a nice class according what they said. They were telling scary stories because they were learning the simple past and past continuous.

The warm up was a nice and fun activity. I gave some pieces of paper to the students with some adjectives and they did mimics in order the rest of the class guessed the adjective. Everybody participated some adjectives were easy to guess and others not to much but they did it very well. All the students were laughing. 

I presented the topic of the class and it was "Adjectives that end in -ed and -ing". and I design some chart in order to explain in a better way the topic and the information was this:

There are many adjectives that we have in English that end in -ED or -ING. 

They are not only endings that we use for verbs!

An adjective that ends in -ING is used to describe: the characteristic of a person or a thing.    

We also use it to modify a noun that is the source (agent or cause) of the feeling or emotion.

An adjective that ends in -ED is used to describe: a feeling. We use the past participle, ending in -ed, -en, or -t to modify a noun that is the receiver of the feeling or emotion.

Compare the difference

     My girlfriend is bored. - (My girlfriend feels bored) 

My girlfriend is boring. - (My girlfriend is a boring person)

You can use these adjectives to describe people or situations but be careful that you are using the correct adjective. For example, there is a big difference in meaning between:

  I am confused. - (I don't understand something) 

 I am confusing. - (I will cause you to be confused)

 After to explain the charts, I gave students a list with adjectives that end in -ed and -ing; we read the list, and then we practiced with a controlled activity.

Circle the correct –ed /-ing form of the adjective.

1. My friend Ann works in the most ________ (excited / exciting)   city of the world.

2. I’m really ________ (excited / exciting) with the prospects of working abroad.

3. People are ________ (confused / confusing) about all the different

    labels on food these days.

            I gave them 24 sentences and I gave them some minutes to work on it. After that we checked the           answers and analized why they used the adjective in each sentence. 

                 The class was over and I thanked the students for their attention and participation.