Thursday, 23rd, 2012.
Today was my 4th and last class in the advanced group. The day before the class the teacher assigned me what I was supposed to teach. I was worry because he told me that I had to teach the grammar notes. I was not happy with the idea but eventually when I heard that the topic was "reported speech" I felt reliefed because I knew some things about it so I just had to read something more. The teacher also suggested me some pages where I could read about it.
The class started with a warm up that I prepared but something happened. I was sure that the activity was not taking more than 5 minutes to be developed. Since it was like a discussion and students had the chance of giving opinions the activity last around 15 minutes. I felt good because they were participating and as I know the most they practice, the better it is.
Another unexpected situation appeared when I was supposed to check student`s homework but I discovered that they didn`t work on it. So, they took some minutes to work on the homework. Later, I check it.
I continued developing the rest of the previous activities before the grammar notes. When I was getting ready to get on the main topic I realized that the time was over. The teacher told me not to worry about it and to stop rigth there. So, I couldnt teach the grammar part in other case it would have been a relief but not this time because I was really prepared.
At the end I just say thank you to the students and the teacher and I left. This was a great experience I learned a lot by working with this group. I liked that they are not shy at all. They like to participate and to practice. It was nice working with this group I had many challenges during the time I was there but I learned many things and Im happy for that. I`m having good expectations for next period and the coming group I hope everything will be ok.