Class #6: Saturday 15th October, 2016

 Ss took a page to their notebook. They wrote a sentence about personal information. After that, they made an airplane. They threw it and the person who took it had to guess who wrote the sentence. One of the airplane said “I love music”, S guessed who wrote it.

T Lily presented the vocabulary. She gave a dice, Ss threw it, and the high number had the opportunity to choose a word and match the word with the definition.   

Ss practiced the vocabulary on page 106. They completed sentences using the vocabulary.  After, they compared with the person next to them and with the whole group.

Ss chose a word from the vocabulary and they created a sentence. They passed the dice for sharing the sentences.

T asked to Ss what kind flowers they knew in English. They mentioned rose and Jazmine.

Ss word on page 100. They scanned the text and predicted what the reading was about. Ss listened and read the text at the same time. Ss looked for new words.

After that Ss showed reading comprehension on page 104.  They chose the best answer for each question. Also, they compared the answer with their partners.

Ss read again, T asked to close the book. T threw the dice the S who got the highest number answered a question and they won points making by T. Ss got points.

The second reading was for me. The name of the Unit was “the power of perfume”

 I presented some pictures of perfumes. Ss told me if it was for woman or man, and what the smell were.

I presented the vocabulary with an interactive power Presentation. Ss made two groups. Group A chose a person to the group B. T asked the question relate to the vocabulary for example: A plan that shows how much money you have and how you will spend it. You would have the definition of? The possible answers were A. Bill B. Budget C. Bulletin D. Shipment Student answered the question and they had to say if it was your final answer. If they did not, they had three jokers phone a friend, poll the audience, and 50 / 50. Phone a friend was they could ask one person of the group to help them. With Poll the audience, had the group to vote on the answer. 50 / 50 the teacher could tell them which two are not answers.

I pasted the vocabulary’s words on the board. Ss made two lines. T read the definition and Ss swatted the word who matched with it.

I asked to Ss scanned the text. They did it. After they answered the question on page 107. The question said, “Why does the passage mention baseball Dereck Jeter?” they said because they had her own brand of perfume.

Ss read and listen the text at the same time. They showed reading comprehension on page 110. They compared with the person next to them and after, with whole group.

Ss created a specific question of pieces of paper. T read the questions to the contrary group. If they answered, they won a point.

Finally, Ss made groups of four. They created a new perfume. They drew it. Also, they invented the name, the brand and the smell. 

Class #5: Saturday Oct 1st, 2016

This was the last Saturday in the module 9. Ss were impatient because they had an exam. Also, they wanted to know if they passed the module.

The moment came I did the warm up and it was “Simon Says”. Ss made two groups and they chose a leader to each group. When I said a command. They had to do the action and the person who did it first got a point. The last thing that I said was “Simon says… bring a pairs of shoes” they did it; I thought that they were shy but the opposite they were optimistic in this activity. They enjoyed this activity.

My colleague Roxana had 1-hour class. She began asking Ss to open the book. Ss worked on page 9. They had to complete the information with the words in from the box.

T Roxy presented the vocabulary. She pasted different folders list from 1 to 20. Ss were dividing in two teams. Ten of them had words and the rest the definitions. Ss choose two different numbers if it matched they got a point. I liked this activity because they were concentrated. The problem was the spaces on the board to show clearly the word and the definition.  

After this activity, Ss worked on page 96. They practiced vocabulary. They completed the sentences with the words previously studied. They did not complete the activity because they took an exam. They were nervous.

When they came back to the classroom, they worked on page 92. They had to scan the text after they did it they read the complete text and in pairs, they wrote two sentences as summarize to each paragraph. Some of them did it, but the other were thinking on the exam.  

The second warm up did T lily. She wrote 3 sentences. Two of them were true and the other was F, Ss tried to guess it but in the first time was not possible, in the second time they guessed it. After, Ss wrote 3 sentences too, they had to asked to the class. They wanted to continue but the time was over.

Ss scanned the text and they looked for the words that they did not. T Roxy clarified the doubts. Ss read the text again but in this time for making sentences a summary to each paragraph.

Ss worked on page 24 they showed reading comprehension. They had to answers some question related to the reading and they chose the correct.

Ss made two sentences about the reading. Ss made two group. They made a debate, a person to each group had to read a sentences and the other group have to answer if it was true or false the group who answered well got a point. Some of them are distracted. They did not work because was the last class of the module 9. 

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Class #4: Saturday Sept 24th, 2016

 This Saturday, I felt nervous because I was my turn to teach a class of 1 hour. I prepared my reading lesson Unit 5 B it was about the people who works deep under New York City.

T Lily prepared a warm up. T gave a piece of paper to each pair. Ss had to say the color that they saw even if they had the word with different color. At the beginning, Ss did not get the idea but when they started to practice they did it well.

In the pre stage, I asked Ss to open the book and looked the page 75. An S read the instruction. Ss looked a photo in page 76 and they guessed the information that they would read.

After, I presented the vocabulary; Ss matched the words with the definitions. We checked if it was ok. I ask to read the word with the definition to each students who pasted it. One of them was wrong and an S helped me to correct it. Ss practiced the pronunciation.

Ss worked on page 80. Ss completed the information with the vocabulary presented in the previous activity.

I gave to each students, this paper contained a number the Ss who had the same numbers worked together. Ss started to read the passage   “New York’s Underside”. They had to switch for reading each paragraph.

In the next activity, Ss created a new title for passage. a pair said "Dangerous job in a tunnel" I observed that they are creative for it because they did it quickly.

Ss worked in the book on page 78. Ss showed reading comprehension to answer questions.

After that, Ss made three specific questions about the reading. Ss made two circle one inside of the other. One of them walked and when I said stop the person who had in front asked and answered the questions.

In the last activity, Ss created a new job. They supposed that they do it. They explained why the job is dangerous.

T gave names of fruits to all Ss those were banana, strawberry and mangoes.  T told Ss a story suddenly T said “banana”. The last students who got up answered a question that the rest of the group asked him/her. I saw that some of them did not know what ask. I think give them key words to encourage. For example “Food” Do you like Salvadorian food?  They can create this type of question.

T Lily presented the vocabulary. She pasted the definitions and Ss had to match with the words. They checked if all of them were correct. After that, they practiced pronunciation.

In the next activity, T asked them what came to their mind when they listened the word “SEA” they said beach, sunny, fish, etc.

Ss did the exercises on page 84. Ss looked the photo and they answered T or F to each statement about the coral reefs.

Ss looked the title on page 84 they thought they would read about and checked it. Ss shared the answer with the whole group.

T played the reading. Ss checked the pronunciation. In addition, T asked for new words.

After that, Ss worked on page 88. They showed reading comprehension. They answered question relate to the reading. They shared all the answers with the group.

Finally, Ss had oral evaluation. They had not seem nervous. I think they were relax. They invented a place; they had to describe what it had inside and outside. Moreover, they drew the place. They had to use for vocabulary words.

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