First class with Intermediate I

In my first class with Intermediate I, I didn’t have the chance of observing a class before starting my practice. I just got ready for my practice and I pitched in. I tried to teach a really nice class. I knew the students were going to feel surprised with my sudden presence in the classroom, so I started the class with an ice breaker. Students really love the warm up I developed and even the tutor started to participate in the warm up. They had to guess the action written in pieces of paper but the activity was quite complex because they are Intermediate English students. They, for example, had to mime: to jump “from a bridge.” The game was related to the topic because I was going to teach stative and dynamic verbs. I explained the main use and difference of these verbs and then I asked a couple of CCQ questions. After that I had them practice making sentences and filling in the blanks so that they could differentiate stative from dynamic verbs. They had oral practice by discussing a couple of questions: how do you like to look when you meet someone? I wrote a couple of verbs they were going to use as they spoke.

The practice and the activities were a success and the tutor told me the class was good. She only required me to re-s tart explaining an issue when a student doesn’t understand.