Class 2. Observation - Participation.

Saturday, September 10, 2016.

Today I was encharged to teach a reading class about "Meet the memory masters", where I include the following vocabulary : from memory, photographic memory, remember, memorize, recited and memory. Also, this was my first complete participation and I was very anxious about it.

To start,  the activity "Broken telephone" was presented and students were asked to stand up and make two groups in order to pass a message one by one until the last one get the message and they needed to write it on the board, and the group who had more points won.

Second, students were presented with six new vocabulary stated above, and in groups they disscused the words and what they think about them. After that students were given with strips of paper that contains the meaning of each word, and students had to match it.

Moreover, students were given with an small paragraph that they had to read and conclude what the text was about. Then, students share their thoughts with their classmates and read the completed text to complete the exercise three on their books.

Also, students took a flashcard related with the events presented in the text, and they had to pasted on the board according with the text order.

Furthermore, students were assigned with a question related to the memory and each student answered personally by using at least two new vocabulary previously presented.

To finish, students wrote a list of five tips to improve their memory to then share it with their classmates.

To conclude, students played the game "Hot potatoe" and the students who got the ball answered a question realted to the vocabulary.

Then, the teacher Jasmin introduced the grammar part that was related with the negative and interrogativa form with BE.

Class 1. First day!

Saturday, september 3, 2016.

Today was my first day in teaching practicum to adolescents and it was an excellent experience. I am with the plaza mundo program which is also placed at Don Bosco University and teenagers ages are around 15 to 17, they are starting to lear English but you can see their efford to learn. Moreover, my mentor teacher is Jasmin Gomez who is an extraordinary teacher and very loved by her students.

To start, students were  asked to stand up and make a circle where they were asked with the question "How do you feel today?" and they needed to answer with 3 moods (angry -_-, fine :), sad :( ). In my opinion, this activity was very useful to untroduce the new topic, since they were adjectives too.

The, some adjectives were introduced and students pasted on the board the images with the corresponding adjective. (Lonely, extreme, lucky, good, nauthy, cute, upset, scary, ashame, and nervous). Also, they solved the vocabulary excersises on their books.

Moreover, students were asked to make three lines and to pass a piece of paper in which they needed to wrire letter by letter until complete the sentences with an adjective that he teacher dictated. For me this was an innovative activity because students can work together without mess up, and to practice spelling.

Also, students listened to an audio in order to answer some questions in a worksheet. Furthermore, students got in pairs and were provided with a place and they had to perfom a role play with the differents feelings that are present in those places.

To conclude, I was asked to provide instructions about a worksheet realted to the topic past form of the verb "Be". Then, students went to the other classroom to asked questions about activities students did during the week to then write an small paragraph about it.

Error Analysis

The purpose of this activity was to help identify spelling mistakes that I made in my first  blog entry, and I do not want to make excuses but honestly I do not organize my time well, so that I need to write very fast and I can say that’s the problem, and I hope I can surpass it.

I wrote	I must have written
1- teaching adolescence	Teaching adolescents
2- 3we can make the different	We can make the different
3- Also, though these years I have had many teaching experiences that help me to gain more confident and	Also, through these years I have had many teaching experiences that help me to gain more confident
4- nowadays I commenced with	Nowadays I started with
5- Moreover, adolescent develop the primary sex characteristics	Moreover, adolescents develop their primary sex characteristics
6- high levels of profyenci	High levels of proficiency
7- try to make students' feel very secures and comfortables in the classrooms	Try to make students’ feel very secures and comfortable in the classroom
8- phychological development	Psychological development
9- phychological development	Psychological development
10- The adolescent becomes	The adolescents become
11- profyenci	Proficiency

 Moreover, these types of activities are very useful since we learn by making mistakes which it is more relevant. Also, it’s became a self learning because we see our mistakes and we search information in order to correct them.

In my opinion, I would like to apply this technique in a grammar class, so students can see which their lacks are and how they can improve them. Also, I think it is suitable for all the English levels.