Thursday, October 1, 2015

4th Journal
October 1st, 2015

In the first lesson we kept working with the last topic, family tree; students took a poster with their family tree to the classroom, then, they presented it to the whole class. Those students who had to present their family trees were anxious. In fact, those who were not speaking in front of the class did not pay so much attention; they were just focused on gossiping. The second class let students use the days of the week through the elaboration of a students’ schedule. Here, students worked peacefully and slowly, they concentrated on their piece of homework.
In general terms, the classes were doing well, students participated actively. However the time was not from my part in the first class, I had to ask students to be very general while speaking about their family. Also, I should have involved the students who had already presented their family by asking them about the presentation they just heard.  In the second class students did not have time to talk among them, due to the fact that they were running out of time.

Next week, I am going to prepare more activities based on speaking. This way, students are going to express their ideas while using the target language. Also, I will take control of discipline by asking students about things said before or related to the topic worked. I can say that this is a really nice experience for my life as an English teacher, I am learning so much from the mistakes I make, but also I am proud of successful moments with my students at school. 

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