MY 2nd lass with Advanced English

Today's class was amazing even though the grammar points I taught were quite hard. My tutor asked me to teach Participle Clauses and their exceptions. I had a hard time understanding some exceptions, and even when I consulted some teachers, the exceptions were controvercial for them, too.

I concluded that the problem was not a matter of grammar but a matter of meaning. 

I was ready for the class and I started teaching my class with eighteen students; this made my warm up activity meaningful and fun.

Students enjoy speaking activities, so the warm up was so. Grammar makes students feel stressed out, but I tried to awaken previous knowledge so they could understand the topic easily. They have knowledge about clauses, which made it easy for me to explain the grammar point.

My tutor suggested me to discipline the students in that they sometimes don't pay much attention. He also toldme that I have to continue working on my voice which I have to play with in order to enphasize important points in my explanation and also to make them draw more attention. The students were very polite and and respectful when I spoke; in general terms I liked my class, and I think it is the most inportant thing in addition to the pieces of advice my tutor granted to me.

My first class with Advanced English II

Before teaching this class, I said it was going to be what would do the difference in my teaching practice; I have taught Basic English students and Intermediate English students, but I hadn’t the experience of teaching Advanced English students. I admit I was very nervous but I decided to go to observe this group on Tuesday which relieved me and let me know the way they are.

I spent lots of time masterminding my class; thinking of possible ways of approaching the students; their level of English is already good and I was quite concerned about it because I was aware that any mistake I commit shows something to them.

When the time of teaching came, I was more relaxed; the students were very polite and well educated. They respect my explanations and developed what I asked them to do. I explained some grammar points and then I had them practice. Some students were asking little things about what I was explaining and I solved their doubts.

In the practice was where they found they had some difficulties, but that is why practice is really important because doubts come up. I monitored the students work while they were solving a worksheet and I also helped them with hard points.

In my feedback, the tutor told me I had to play with my voice in order to make them notice important and less important points when explaining something. Being honest, I said I was going to do it in my class when I observed the class my tutor taught. It is a good tip. He also told me to develop rapport with my students in order to get to know them more. I really liked this class and I will try to do it better next week.

My last class with Intermediate:

This group was a really challenge because their English accuracy is quite good. It has been necessary to scaffold and pick some knowledge that was already passive in me.

My last class was amazing because it was the first time I didn’t teach grammar. I really wanted to have them develop free activities in order to experiment the behavior they would present when production from what they have learned. They had been studying the modal verbs, and they knew the most common uses of them; the accompanying topic was jobs advertisements and as we had got into the topic of jobs, chiefs, employees and costumers, I had them persuade a classmate to buy a product as warm up activity.

I really liked that activity though my tutor suggested me a better application of such warm up; he told me I should have given them certain time to think of the reasons why the product must have been bought; my conclusion is that as it was a warm up activity, it was not that necessary to do; I would have applied it in that way if it had been a FREE PRACTICE ACTIVITY.

There was an example of Job advertisement in the book. I thought I was enough for them to create a new one, but the tutor told me that I must provide more examples for them to prepare a great advertisement. What I did is that I gave the students oral directions in addition to the example they had. I said how I wanted the advertisement and after that I had them come to the front and present their advertisement as if they were in television. Some of them were brief and shy but some others did it well. I learned a lot through this experience and I am now thinking about my next challenge, Advanced English.

Third class with Intermediate

My third class
I had an extraordinary experience today. Students were late and I had to develop the warm up activity only with three students. I was assigned to teach all the modal verbs as an overview. The wonderful part is that the students had already read about them.


 It was a challenge but it was satisfactory to accomplish my class normally. Being honest, I learned new things when I was preparing my class and later I had the chance of shearing it with the students. In previous feedback, my tutor made me some suggestions that I have to implement when teaching grammar points. For example, he told me that when teaching grammar, I don’t necessary have to make sure if the students understood the explanation properly because we have them solve doubts during the practice.


 We all know that teaching grammar can be monotonous and students can get bored, so by knowing this, I tried to include some funny examples as I was explaining the use of the modals.
I sometimes laugh because my tutor points mistakes I make which I don’t remember to have committed. However, I appreciate what he suggests me every time. 
My grade also improved and it makes me feel confident to go on. 

my second class with Intermediate

This class was pretty good! I enjoyed developing one more Reading activity and explaining grammar structures. I put into practice the pieces of advice my tutor gave me. I did it better and I love it because my identity as a teacher is becoming more solid.

The students were kind and cooperate to develop my class. They sometimes ask questions but as I read before teaching, I have never had troubles. The only difficulty I had when teaching was that I had to explain grammar related to prepositions of place and have them practice, but in addition to that I developed an activity related to a different topic which was phrasal verbs. Though it was unusual for me, I managed to do it well.

My tutor told me I had to cares the content of a reading and that I have to be careful with the time I give the students to digest what they are reading. I told him that since he me the number of activities to be done, I have limited time for each, otherwise my time is not going to be enough. He told me that that is not a problem; I can make use of the time I need to develop my activities as I desire. I like this part because this mean that I won’t be so worried about overcoming 45 minutes; however, I won’t abuse.

first day with Intermediate English

In this particular experience, I felt more nervous. I had the idea that this Intermediate group was going to be a challenge because the students have more knowledge about the English structures.

Before starting the class, I was trying to get relaxed. I arrived to the classroom early and I arrange the desks; students started to get in the classroom and the tutor allowed me to start the class. It is a nice group of students; they are not troublemakers.

I had a great view of what I was going to explain. I had to develop a reading and I had to explain grammatical content which I introduced with a reading activity.

My view of my work was that I didn’t have to spend too much time in the reading activity otherwise my time was not going to be enough; that’s why I just have the students read the text and identify some vocabulary and to answer some questions. However in the observations that my tutor made to me, he told me that I had to spend more time in the reading activity.

I always try to be sure about what I say, especially in my practice, but I did something my tutor considered it was a hesitation. I don’t feel bad but I probably never do that again.

Definitely we learn everything in the practice; but practice has to be taken in a reflexive way. At night I reflected on what I could have done differently, and what I concluded is that experiences reward us anyways because what we do is to learn from them when they don’t go as you would like, or we feel confident when everything goes right.

As a conclusion, I would say that this class was not so good for me; however it motivates me to do it better. I am sure I can.

My fourth practice!!

My last practice was very meaningful because as ever, I gained knowledge and I could see how the students achieved the objective. They were studying the use of Wh-questions. I introduced this topic in my third class and they had been practicing along the week. I had the chance of developing more practice with them because they had had some troubles at understanding the structure of questions with Wh words.

Of course they had some previous knowledge about the topic but let’s remember that they are basic students and not all of them come with background to start this major.

At this time, they were able to make oral and written wh questions with a low degree of difficulty; however, they needed some more free practice.

It is gorgeous when students start walking on the way of learning. These students are very smart and they have a great potential. I really appreciate that they let me help them to grow. In my y last class, I had them develop free activities in which they could practice what they had been studying and they did well in this practice.

My tutor told me that my activities were appropriate for them to practice, which made me feel proud.