Professions Review

Overall, this lesson was good because they used great materials, took advantage of the space, had good voice projection. More importantly, they took into account the feedback that had been given before.

For the warm up, the teacher had a great voice projection and reviewed the previous vocabulary. In the presentation stage, the teacher had a great classroom management. For the practice stage, the teacher used a creative and engaging activity with simple materials.

To wrap up the lesson, the dynamic was very entertaining and kept the children engaged in the activity without losing focus on the topic that was being praticed.

Here are some pictures of the lesson

My dream job

For our last lesson, the objective was to have our students identify professions and express want they want to be when they grow up.

For the warm-up activity, we pasted  pictures about places in the town , students were asked to score a goal the ones that missed the goal, were given a piece of paper to match it with the pictures pasted in the classroom. In the pre-listening stage, 10 professions were introduced, by the other teachers wearing customes of the profesions. Some students participated in the activity by wearing some of the customes. 

In the 'during' stage, students played "What do you want to be?",  Five professions were described. One teacher described the profession while another teacher represented that profession. Students answered  a worksheet based on the description given by the teacher, and the picture in the worksheet.

In the post-listening stage, students played "Musical Chairs",  Students walked around the chairs while a song was played. When the song stopped, the student left without a chair picked up a number randomly, and said the sentence “I want to be a ___” based on the picture that matched the number they got.

To wrap up the lesson, the students passed a hat while a song about professions was played, the student who had the hat was asked a question about the topic.

In my house

For our second class, our objective was to have students identify four possessive pronouns, demonstrative pronouns while using the simple present tense.

For the warm-up activity, the students played the game "Mime a Hobby". Standing in a circle, the teacher introduced  the game by saying his name and something he likes to do. Then students did the same.

For the presentation stage, the teacher introduced the topic  with some charts and pictures, explaining the four possessive adjectives and the demonstrative  using household objects.

To practice the students completed a worksheet, about the topic presented, while a teacher monitored them. In the production stage, the class was supposed to be divided into two groups, one group holding a picture of a house hold object and the other group holding  the name of the object. However, for this class, there were only two students so we had to improvise a little.

To wrap up the lesson, the teacher pasted a cross (one for each student), made out of masking tape, on the floor. Then, they walked around the classroom while another teacher made some noise with a marker. When the teacher stopped making noise, everyone looked for a cross to stand on, the one with no cross to stand on, went to the front to write a sentence on the board.

 Group 1

In the classroom

Group Members: Tomas, Bryan, William, Eduardo and myself.

 For the warm up activity, students played "Sharks are Coming". The teacher explained the game, after practicing 2 times, students made groups of 3 and they completed a word, from the vocabulary to be used in class, in a piece of paper.

For the pre stage, the teacher introduced the topic with some  pictures and flashcards, students were required to repeat the new vocabulary, while the teacher monitored and corrected the pronunciation.

 For the during part, to show the meaning of the verbs to the students, the teachers acted each verb, and using the present participle form of the verbs.

For the post stage, students played acting and guessing. The teacher made groups of three students. While one group acted out the action, another group guessed the action.

Here are some pictures of this lesson

After the lesson, we got our feedback from the other classmates and the teacher. There were a lot of things to improve but overall it was a good lesson.

Teaching Young Learners

DIAGNOSTIC CLASS

For the classes in this course, my class was divided into four groups. In the first class, all the groups designed activities to diagnose the students' level of proficiency. A diagnostic class must be taught  at the very beginning of the course to know our students' knowledge. More importantly, teaching a diagnostic class helps us design our lesson plans since we know which topics don't have to be taught anymore.

there were several topics that we used in order to diagnose the students:

The numbers 

The Alphabet

Subject Pronouns

Family Members

Classroom Objects

The activities used in this class, helped us identify how well the students master these topics. I must say it was good to see that most of our students already  knew 75% of the content, they just needed to refine their pronunciation and the meaning of some words. Moreover, the activities presented in this class were well-made, catchy and dynamic for the children.