2nd Class

This last Friday I gave my second practice, and now I can say I was more relaxed.

I started the class with a nice warm-up, I brought some strip sentences and I divided the class in two groups, they formed the sentences. Since last class was about the use of “used to”, I decided to write sentences using used to.

I just made a review about used to and I introduced the use of “would” by giving the meaning, the rules and when they need to use would, I pasted a chart on the board with the differences between used to and would.

When I explained the use of those two terms I gave to the students a controlled exercise where they had to choose “used to” or “would” depending on the context. This is what I did in my previous class, and  I enjoyed the class since I felt more comfortable with my students.

First Class, Second Period

Hello guys, here is my first class with Advance English; the group is in charge of Teacher Giovenni Blanco.

Well, I have to say that I was so nervous in this class because I did not know the students and also because of the level they are. I started the class at 4 O’clock because the students arrived really late and I couldn’t start the warm-up just with 3 students. So, when I had around 6 students I started the class.

I worked with the free practice; they did two activities about discussion. In the first activity I wrote some questions on the board so that they can discuss those questions in peers. The questions were about the future; here I want to show some of the questions they were discussing about:

1.   How will the world be in 5, 10, 15 years?

2.   Will there still be wars?

3.   How often do you think about your future?

They were talking about these questions, when they finished, I asked some of them about it.

The second activity was about discussion as well but in this one, I wrote some topics on pieces of paper and I made four groups, so I gave a piece of paper to each group, and the topics were: technological advances, medicine, education and marriage.

They share their ideas and they had a little presentation to share the information they had about the topic.

These was all about my class, hopefully I’ll be more relaxed in my next class.