Class #1: Saturday 3rd September , 2016

Program: Saturday

Level: Module 9  

# of Ss: 20 

Book: Reading Explorer "Unit 1-6"

The first big day came; I was nervous because I did not meet my tutor and my colleague. At the same time, I felt excited to meet who were the students.  I am doing my second practicum in the module 9. In the first day, just fifteen came to class.

When we arrived to the classroom, students were speculating why we were there. I thought they would feel shy or afraid.  I was surprised because I saw that they felt comfortable. Our tutor teacher gave us the opportunity to introduce ourselves. I felt very comfortable with them.

At the beginning of the class, Ss made two groups girls and boys.  Some capitals and lowers letters were writing on the board. T said a capital letter. Ss had to touch and think a word with it. For example, T said letter “B” Ss touched the capital letter and said “Boy” the way that student reacted to this activity was good because they felt comfortable in each group. I would like to do this activity because they enjoyed it. However, I would modify some things. First, I would like to model it because I saw at the beginning they did not get the instructions and they were confused. I would like to mix the groups because I said before they felt comfortable and they did not socialize with the girls.

After this activity, T presented the vocabulary, she asked the winner to match the word with the definitions. I noticed that they reacted afraid I think it was because they did know the words after Ss tried to match it and they did it very well. After that, Ss practiced the pronunciation. This activity was good despite they did know the words they tried to do it. The only thing I saw was some Ss did not repeat the words to practice the pronunciation.

The next activity, T gave papers to each groups (girls and boys). They had to match the words with the synonyms. They did it very well. Ss checked the answers with the T. one of them was wrong and they tried to correct it.

T ask to Ss opened the book and worked in the page 51. This activity was about the match the words to definitions. After, Ss played “hot potatoes” to find a victim for sharing the answers.

Ss made sentences with the vocabulary. When Ss finished doing it, they wrote on the board, T asked them if it was ok. If one of the sentences was wrong, Ss helped to correct the sentence. When I observed this activity, I saw Ss motivated doing the sentences.

Ss moved to the next unit “Bride of the Sahara” T asked if they found information about it. Nobody did not found it. Then, Ss read the information from the book. I could see that the majority of Ss payed attention to the reading. T played an audio and Ss read at the same time T asked if they had new words and they had, she explained it.

 Ss moved to the exercise in page 56 they had to choose the best answers for each question. Before they shared to the all group, they shared with the person next to them they wrote a question and they had to answer. If the answer was wrong. They had talk for 30 second. The tried to do the best of them.

After the break, T divided the word in two and wrote the word “CONSTANTINOPLA” Ss worked in the same groups and they wrote a word with each letter. They enjoyed it.

In this activity, my colleague and I helped to T. I gave the words and she gave the definition to each students. Ss had to look for the definition, and they pasted on the board. Ss checked the vocabulary. T asked if they had any question. They were afraid because they did not the vocabulary. The word that they did not get the meaning was “Tent” but they tried to find it.

Ss discussed questions related to wedding and they gave good examples. One of them was “The boy does not see the girls with the dress before the wedding”. I like this kind of activity because Ss shared their own ideas.

Ss moved to read the text from the book in pairs taking turns. After, they read and listened the audio at the same time and they looked for a new vocabulary after they made exercises about reading comprehension. Ss passed a ball to find a victim for sharing the answers.

 T divided the class in two groups and make some questions but in this time they did not see the book and if they answered correct they had the opportunity to write X or 0. Ss like this kind of games.

Students wrote one sentences and in pairs, they asked to each other if someone did not know the answers. They had a punishment. They were motivated to do the best because they did not want a punishment.

Ss saw a video and they have to answer the activity from the book. They were focus on the video they answered correct the exercise.

Note: Something that I have learned in this class is Ss love competitions and they want to show how they have learned. T is a dynamic person and she always wants to do an interesting and funny class. I thought the class would be boring for them because they do not like reading, she tries to do it interesting for them. They show curious to learn more.