Fifth Teaching Practicum

FIFTH TEACHING CLASS!

 

In this time Teacher Alex and I taugth vocabulary about Nationalities. “Vocabulary is one of the important factors in all language teaching; students must continually learn words as they learn structure and as they practice sound system” ( Linse, 2005:121).

WRAM UP

  

In this stage teacher Alex made and activity in which students will have the oportunity to act. They will get a sheet of paper in which was going to be a name of a famous occupation. They had to made the mimics and their classmates must guess the occupation. We showed them how to do it. This activity was to review the previos class.

PRESENTATION

Here teacher Alex present the new vocabulary. Eight different nationalities were presented in flashcards. Also, teacher show the how to use the question Are you...? and the answer I am... This was going to helped them to made the production. They understood the vocabulary and the grammatical procedure. 

PRACTICE

We made three activities in this stage. In the first one teacher Alex past the flashcards on the board and each student have a sheet of paper with the nationality. one by one was going to pass and put the name with the flag they consider correct.

In the second activity I use a worksheet in which they had to match the flag with the nationality. this was to recognize the vocabulary.

 The last activity was filling in the blanks. There were some snetences in which they had to complete it with the nationality. They had to followed the sentence or the picture of the flag to recognize the nationality that they had to write.

PRODUCTION

Here I made a circle with the students sitting on the flour. I use a dice for this activity. And it was in pairs, one by one was going to throw the dice and get a flag. One students was going to asked Are you Canadian? and the other one was going to answer I am Salvadoriam according to the flag they get. They took turns until everybody participate. I felt excited because they could produce some words by themselves.

WRAP UP 

At the end of the class I use the dice to made the activity. One by one student was going to throw the dice and they will get a flag. Each student was going to said I am American according to what they got in the dice. This activity was to review the vocabulary they had learn.

Fourth Teaching Practicum

FOURTH TEACHING CLASS!

In this class Alex and I taught about "Professions" and the skill was reading. The experience were different comparing with previos classes.

When we get into the classroom all the kids were very restless. Alex and I were nervous because we thought that they were not going to handle. But then we could control them. I started with the class, and in the warm up I made a game to review the topic they had alredy known. I use a "kill Flies" and I wrote different professions on the board. i made two groups one by one was passing, I mentioned a profession and they have to hit the word that was on the board. I made this activity to review the topic.

The second stage was the pre- reading. In this stage I present the vocabulary some of then were new. I practice the vocabulary as many times as necessary, so they can have clear the different professions. After presenting that I made an activity to see if they get the vocabulary. This activity was with two puzzles. I made two groups and they had to fixed the pazzle and after they finished they had to meentioned the name of the profession they had.

Then I continued with the next stage that was During- Reading. In this stage I present the mini story that was called " Professions of my family". I read the story many times, so they can have clear what the story was about. They I gave to kids the story in a sheet of paper. And I gave to them two different topics. So they could recognize the differente vocabulary. They did understood what the story was about.

I was proud of myself because they always understood the class when my partner Alex and I taught to them. I always tried to give the best when I'm teaching. Is something that I really like and for the reason I tried to prepared in a good way the activities and all the class. New experiences are coming and we always learned something new. 

It is good to have the opinion of  somebody else so we can correct the mistakes the we are doing.