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.
I think everybody feels nervous at the very beginning or at the first touch with the group we are to work with, so it is something normal. Warm-up activities usually give us problems because students are not on time, so you can not start on time neither. but the good point is that you could develop the rest of the activities..
ResponderEliminarBeing nervous when teaching a group for the very first time is very common; it always happens to me, so don´t worry about it because I´m sure you´ll feel more comfortable next time. What I try to do when that happens to me, is to get prepared and familiarized with the activities as well as with the grammar structure I´m about to teach, so that I feel more confident and relaxed when explaining something or giving directions. I like the topics you had them discussing about; it seems to me that they prompted them to speak a lot...
ResponderEliminarTotally agree with you guys!!! It is so common feel nervous during the first class.
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