My second practice with the group was another positive experience. This time, I started off with some non-biblical proverbs as a warm-up. They even learned a new word from one of those. A student shared her opinion on one of the proverbs.
I continued the class by having listening activities. I liked one that I had not tried before. Students underlined the best option out of 2 possible before listening to the right answer. Students got all answers right but one, which was also a new term for them. I thought it was nice the exercise contained some informal words like "loaded", meaning having plenty of money.
The main part of the class was a grammar introduction to real and unreal conditionals. I provided "formula" structures to support the explanations. I included some example sentences on the board. I would ask them to help me complete some of them. The most common contexts to use those conditionals were shown.
I was able to answer or clarify their doubts and questions. When I was done teaching the topic, they found common patterns in conditional clauses. Students then worked on a few exercises and more new words were added to the vocabulary section. Pronunciation, examples, synonyms and possible uses in common speech were taught. It felt good when I noticed that they did remember the meaning of "splash out", which had been seen in the previous class, and came up again in one text.
wow... awesome work. the topic seems to be hard and you did it well. that´s nice because you are ready to teach any topic. I cheer you to continue doing so good as you have been doing!!!!
ResponderEliminarJonathan,
ResponderEliminarI really enjoyed erading about your second class with this group. I think you are always well-prepared for your classes. Great!"
I strongly believe that you are great at teaching advance levels. You always try to come up with new activities and that makes your class different and meaningful. Go ahead friend
ResponderEliminarThe great part in all of this practice is that students really get involved in speaking. they give their opinions and in that way they let you know if they are grasping the meaning.I think this class you taught was meaninful for them because you tried to address the topic from different perspectives.
ResponderEliminarIt is very important to provide students with the formula of the grammar structure studied because there are some of them who understand the grammar structures through formulas but some other may get confused.
ResponderEliminarthat's why it is important to explain to them that the formula is for those who find it useful.
Congratulations John because as I read, you are doing a great job.