2ND Period Done!!!.

My thrid and last class with this group

In this class something very different happened to me. My students arrived pretty late to classes, and some of them never showed up. Basically, I worked with the half of the students this group has. As you can imagine, this makes our planning execution very difficult because you planned for 50 mins, in my case, I had to adapt a 50mins class into a 40 mins. It was kind of complicated to do it so, and for that reason I had to eliminate one of the things I had planned for them.

As usual, I started the class greeting the students and developing the warm up. Since the topic the Irregular verbs, I wanted to call up the previous knowledge about the regular verbs. I divided the class and the board into two. I pasted the 3 different categories in which regular verbs are divided, endings in “d”, “ed”, “ied”. They had some strips of paper with verbs in the simple present. What they had to do was to paste the verbs in the right column according to their endings in the past.

The activity worked very well since they were practicing what they studied before, and when they realized about the mistakes they remember what they have learned.

 Later, I ask them what they knew about the irregular verbs. This to me was like to set an idea on how hard the class was going to be. They answered perfectly and establish the difference between the regular and irregular verbs.

So, what I did was to paste some charts with the classification of the irregular verbs. There were some examples of each category for them to see them and realize about them.

The teacher told me that it would be a nice idea to teach them about vocabulary, so I decided to put different verbs from the ones they were used to. With this I asked them “any new words?” and they were pointing out the ones they didn’t know, having me explaining to them using mimics.

Later, we worked with a reading. For sure we read it together and later they had to underline the verbs in the past. At the end, they were supposed to answer the questions about the reading.

The problem I had with this is the lack of vocabulary they seem to had, as well the difficulty of the pronunciation; besides that, they did not have any problem.

At the end, I made them work in trios and answer some questions I wrote on the board. Then, they had to retell some of the things their classmates just said.

To conclude the class I thanked them for be so kind and participative, and I gave to them some candies. That was how I closed this class and this 2^nd period.