third practice! third period!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

Well, I have to say that I am really happy because I have finished all my practices of the semester! I have to say that I have learned a lot by doing all my practices and getting the feedback is a good way of learning too, because that is the way we are gong to know all the mistakes we make at the time of teaching. I have never gotten angry at the time of getting the feedback because I think that I have to take advantage of other people´s experience and try to improve every day.
For this last practice I had prepared with a lot of material for my students. I taught them a new topic (comparative adjectives) as a warm up I explained the grammar notes, it took a little bit longer because it is a little complicated for basic students.
I gave them the forst activity that was about filling in the blanks with the appropiate comparative adjective, I did it in order to check how much they had understood what I had already explained to them.
after that I made a contest that consisted on makin two lines in front of the whiteboard and write in the correct order a list of comparative adjectives that were written on a chart and pasted on the board, the line that finished first was the winner. T he students enjoyed that activity a lot, they had fun, and they practice.
After that I gave them a reading comprehension in which they had just to read and find as many comparative adjectives as they could, they did everything I asked them to do.
To finish the class I gave them some pieces of paper that contained four nouns that they had to compare, they stood up and looked for two or three diffrent classmates to tell their comparative sentences to them.
That was how I finished my last practice, I was a little bit tired but happy at the same time because I had finished the semester.

second entry! third period...

Well, in this second time I was expecting to give my class without any problem. I got early to my classroom that day, however I started my class a little bit late because I was pasting the material on the board for the warm up I was going to do wih my students. I was a little bit nervous about the class because I know that sometimes it is not easy and you do not what you are going to face with. Every class has a different experience. I think that it is a little bit easier to prepare the class if you have a text book to guide yourself to find the best activities in which the students can get involve and active and in which they can also develop the four macro skills such as: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
Looking for the best activities is something very difficult but it is really exciting when you look at the results at the end of class.
I started the warm up with an activity that consisted on making two groups and each group made a line in front of the whiteboard, I dictated some verbs in the simple present tense and they wrote them down in the imple past form, the line that had most correct verbs was the winner. It was really funny, the students enjoyed the activity and in that way I could see how much they had learn about the simple past tense in the previous classes.
The only problem was that I took too much time making that actvity that I did not finish with some other activities that I had prepared for them. I think that the most difficult problem I can find when making a lesson plan is timing the activities, it is a little bit challenging.
After that I gave them a piece of paper with an activity called: "board game" and in pairs they had fun in that activity, making sentences, saying verbs in past, saying irregular and reguar verbs, they could practice a lot in that activity.
My second activity was an in individually form in which the students had to rewrite some verbs from the simple past tense to the simple present tense and backwards. after doing it, they chose 10 verbs and made ten sentences using those verbs.
the last activity was a reading comprehension. In pairs, they read a paragraph about the simple past and after reading it they completed some sentences.
Every time I ask my students to work in some actvities I like to monitor their work and check what they are doing to see how much they have learned in my class.
I also had prepared a role play for them but I could not do it because I did not time well my activities, but I was satisfied with the work I did and with the results I saw in that classroom.

First practice! third period..

Well this day I was really excited that I was going to teach my studets of english access. I was told that this groups of students are really good, that are students with a big desire to learn english every day. I was told that they like to get involve in the class, that they like to participate and even though not all of them are really good for english but they try to do their best. That day I had all my material prepared, I got early at the classroom, I was nervous but I tried not to let them know it. I started my class that day with the warm up that I had prepared for them, they were studying the simple past at that time. Then I gave them my first activity and they worked, they participated in the activity, but when I gave them the second actvity, the teacher Christan who was monitoring and checking my class geve a piece of paper that said that the students had to leave early because there were some rumours that there were some bad people that were threatened others that friday afternoon. So, I had to finish my class earlier and the students couldn´t even finished the activity I gave them and I let it as a homework and asked the teacher to check it for next class with them. These are the type of things that as teachers are going to face but we have to be intellingent and be prepared to know what to do in those cases, even though I did not finish what I had prepared or that day I was happy because the students particiated in the activities I gave them. It was a really nice group that I had to teach, I really liked it. It is really sad to know sometimes that the violence in our country affects education, but unfortunately we can say anything to change it, we just need to trust in God and be happy and with a big desire to teach every time we have the oppotunity.