On Wednesday 24th, I had my first class experience
with advanced level. First, I started the class with a warm up activity called “pass
the ball”. I played some music and then, when I stopped the music; the person
who got the ball told me orally the correct order of one sentence related to
the topic I taught them.
After that, I explained them the grammar part about
Verb Patterns (gerunds and infinitives). I used some charts to explain the
information, and I provided students some examples according to it. It took me a lot of time to explain that because
I gave them a lot of examples so that they could assimilate better the
information. At the end, I made a fill in
the blank activity in order that they could practice about when to use a gerund
or infinitive in a sentence. In this activity students worked individual and
then, I checked students’ answers orally.
I really liked this group because they pay attention
to what I tell them and most of them participate in the class.
Something that did not go so well was that since the beginning,
I had some problems with two girls because they did not want to participate in
the warm up activity nor in the exercises. They just wanted to speak or use the
cell phones. And I tried to call them the attention, but they did not care. I
felt really uncomfortable because of the reaction of the girls since the beginning,
but I hope they behave different next time.
