Observation

The second week in the Federal 6, we were giving classes to some groups of second grade. In those groups we worked with the past tense. We asked the students to make a line time of their lives with questions like: When did you started to walk?, At what age did you talk?, When did you enter to school? it is easy to work in this way because you contextualize the work, with some phases of their development, I think it makes the class work more interesting.
The students realized that they needed to know some verbs in past.
It also was a great opportunity to work with my classmates, Irving, Karen and Nancy because we could have a feedback of our work as teachers.

Spot Decisions

The third session in my practice group, we reviewed the uses of will that we had commented: promises and predictions, but also we reviewed a new one: spot decisions. I asked them what did they think was a spot decision and we talked about this kind of decisions, which generally we take at the moment, like "Im thirsty, I will take a glass of water".
I asked them to give me examples of these decisions that usually happen to us daily. They also wrote a few more examples in their notebooks. At the end of that class I applied them a test to know if they had understood the uses of will, and if they had been able to use it in the practice.

Promises

The second class in the Thrid grade, group "F", was nicer than the first one. I started the class taking back again the previous knowledge, so we talked about how life will be in the 2400. They told me their points of view. Then I told them that other use of will is when we make promises, so I asked them to remember the promises that they had done in their lives. They told me some of these promises and I wrote on the board some of them as examples, then they shared their promises in pairs.

Troubles

I have to say that the practice that I started to relate in the last entry, was no good for me than other ones. This was because the material that I gave to the students was damaged...by them. They bent the horoscopes and some of them resulted unusable, so I decided to talk to the boys and firt of all, I tried to make them reflex about the way that I felt when I realized that my material was damaged. I asked them what will they feel if somebody destroys their work, and they understood that, so I gave them options, they could fix the damaged horoscopes and accept their responsibility or I could take up one of their calification points. They told me that they will fix the horoscopes.

Last Practice

The last practice season I went to the Federal No. 6 and I worked with the Third Grade, Group "F". The students in the classroom were 22, and the topic of the classes that I gave was Future Simple so, I decided to connect the three uses of "Will" (predictions, promises and spot decisions) to each session.
In day one I worked with the use of will in predictions, so I brought them some horoscopes, and I started the class asking them if they believed in them, and what would they think that day was going to happen to them.
Then they read the material and I asked them to produce their own future predictions.

Practice Diaries

I used with the students activities like messed phrases using the be going to structure, that they had to put in the correct way. I asked them to identify how we could make sentences in affirmative, negative and interrogative form with going to and I asked them to give me examples. In the last day of practice I gave them an exam to know if they had clear the uses of the idiomatic future.

Practice Diaries

The first day of practice I introduced myself to the students and I asked them about their plans for holidays, and as example I told them my plans to the next vacations using the be going to form, then I explained them the structure of this form and I asked them to do the same with their future plans and intentions for the next holidays.

Practice Season 2010

Last week we came back from the first practice season from the year, and it was really nice. I went to the Secundaria Federal No. 6, located in San Baltazar Campeche Puebla and I worked with two groups of third grade. We review "planning holidays" with the purpose of use the be going to form. There is a picture of how it was....

What we have done recently

After we returned to school we stated to show our classmates the way that we use to work in classes by making some exhibitons of activities. In this picture I share one of my classmate´s class that I could see.

SECOND WEEK OF PRACTICE PART 2

After the activity that you can see below, I asked the students for homework to find more expressions of rules and regulations in other different places and then we used some of them in class with dialogues made by themselves.

SECOND WEEK OF PRACTICE

Well, after the first week of practice in which I worked with a 1st grade, I worked with a third grade. The topic that I had to teach was rules and regulations, so I decided to ask the students in wich places we could find these expressions s a brainstorm and I made a play to show them the actuvity.

I selected six places: a lab, a zoo, a school, a house, a hospital and a department store and I assigned to each place different rules and regulations that they had to put in the correct place in a time of three minutes, I have to say that this play against the clock motivate them. Up the picture of the play.

Lessons

This practice I could watch some classes of my classmates (up the image), and as I said we worked with first grade and we had few students, but it allowed us to carry out on time with our activities.

Planning

Planning is something that I consider really important, because it is like a guideline to follow in class. The activities are somethig I really care about, I try to put to the students activities that catch their attention and also let them remember the main idea of the class. The last practice season in the first grade I asked them to introdude themselves but I did it first, and then I brought them some nationalities to show them and also I took some guide from their course book, (up the image)

Reporting Practice Season

Well, I´m sorry because I hadn´t written since the last practice season, and I didn´t comment how it was, but now I´m going to do it. I have to say that I felt more confident this time, maybe because I could take up again stuff from the previous experiences. My group was 1st grade, group "C", and the teacher in charge asked Mary and I to give the boys a brief review of te first unit, specially topics like nationalities, hobbies, sports, and how to introduce themselves. Up the school where I went to practice.