sábado, 28 de julio de 2012

Friday,27th,2012.
Today was my second class in the advanced class. As always I was so nervous.I don`t know if it was the weather or what but I was sweating a lot!! I started the class with a warm up that I was not ure if it was going to go well.Since I had to paste the students name on their chest in order to memorize their names. I took advantage of that and on the back part I pasted parts of sentences. The idea was that they mixed up and to get scrambled sentences. It was funny to heard some crazy sentences at the end they had to look for the other part of the sentence they had. It was funny and they enjoyed it a lot. So, I felt satisfied because I was wondering if the activity was going to go well. Than the hard part for me came. I had to teach the grammar part :-o I was so worry. I tried to read as much as possible about the topic but I was still feeeling insecure. Thanks God I did it. I tryied to relax and to go slow for them toundertand what I was saying. I`m pretty sure I forgot a lot of things I had prepared but at least I explained the most important things. Since I was explaining the grammar part I tryied to be asking the students if they were sure about the things I was writting. I did it in order to chanllenge them to think and to analyse if the things were correct or not. When I finished this part the controlled practice came. I could only develop one exercise because it was time consuming but with the development of the exercise I colud notice that everybody understood what I explained. I am satisfied for what I got in this class. It was really hard and despite all the sweating I did it :-)
Let`s see what next week brings. Good luck everybody!

viernes, 20 de julio de 2012

Friday,20th,2012.

Today was my first class of the semester. It was exhausting :-). I was very nervous. The group is of 12 student, sand the tutor is teacher Alex Mendoza.
I satarted the class with a very funny warm up and I could notice the students` reaction was optimus and the teacher`s face too. Than I continued developing some activities from the book and another one of the free practice. The class in general was ok. It was difficult to make students participate maybe because I was new for them they didn`t want to talk.
The students participated during the class but I have to say that it was really hard. I was so nervous and maybe because of that I started inventing things :-s that I have not planned. I started writting on the board an excersice that they have ont heir books..it was hard to writte all that and at the end I was sweating a lot! At the end when I recieved the feedback the teacher was intrigued asking why?? whyy did I do it.. hahaha I just said I wanted to vary the dynamic of the excersice but the truth is that I invented at the moment to do it. I still dont know why... Thanks God everything went ok and I finished my first class. I hope next one will be better I think I will change tutor because another teacher is coming Teacher Giovanni Blanco. I hope to learn some more thinks from him. Good luck everybody :-)