My Second Teaching Practice (2^nd period)

This day I had the opportunity to teach my second class. In this case I consider everything worked really well because I could start the class on time and with the majority of my students’ attendance. For this day, I prepared the warm up activity “hot potato” in order to have students remember about the last class. What I can say about the beginning of my class is that it is difficult to deal with late comers since this happened to me today when I had already started the class and I had to explain the directions for the warm up three times in order not to have anybody lost during the performance of it, yet the objective of the warm up was achieved for my students.

Today’s class was mostly going to be focused on speaking so that I started the class giving my students a short reading comprehension which they read and discussed in pairs for some minutes. After a while, I asked some of them to share with the whole class what they thought about the text. Furthermore, I could see their enthusiasm during this activity and I think it was because they were discussing about something such as internet, which has a big impact in our society. Likewise, the next activity was as successful as expected since I could have them talk with their classmates one more time. During this step, I was asked in different opportunities for the meaning of new words which were somehow confusing for students.

The class continued with a line up questions activity, and for this students were still working in pairs answering the questions in the oral form. For this activity, they had some minutes to discuss the questions with one classmate and later they had to change classmate to get new points of view. Later on, I asked some of them what they had understood from some of the questions provided, and they gave me their opinions. Finally, as a concluding activity, I brought some quotes on how trustful internet sources were. During this part, students were walking around the classroom and talking about the quotes while asking for the meaning of new words. However, during the last minutes I asked directly to some students what they thought about the quotes they read, and they were giving me their opinion so that I also gave them my point of view for each quote they read. Thank God everything was okay this day as I could have students talk all my class time while learning the good and bad aspects of relying information from the internet.