First Class, II Period

Well this time, I felt more confident because the students understand more the English language, and also, I tried to do everything in a best way. My class was on Friday, March 28^th in the morning shift. 

I started the class bywriting the agenda and also explaining to them the objective for the class. Afterwards, I did a warm up by playing the game “Chinese whispering”. I asked the students to make two lines in front of the board, and I said that I was going to give to the last two students a piece of paper containing a sentence the one which they had to pass to the firsts on the lines by whispering it on the ear. So this last one had to write it on the board. I expected more from the students but it seemed that they needed help because they were not following the directions. Therefore when they finished writing the sentences, I asked them if the sentences were written in the right way, and we checked the sentences together.

Shortly after, they were going to play bingo as a review of the last class. I demanded them to work individually. I gave to every student a table for bingo, then and I asked for four volunteers that were going to sing the cards and the rest of the class were going to play with the tables. As they had been studying food and there is and there are. The technique was that the four volunteers were going to say “there is/ there are an apple/a cake/ some grapes, etc. depending on what the card showed. At the end, they did it well. I was glad because they had fun and learned how to use there is and there are.

After a while, I started to explain the part of grammar of how to use how much and how many. For this part of my class, I used a chart that I had prepared. I had drawn some drawings related to food. Those pictures were useful to explain uncountable food. And also, I used the board to explain some other details. I was always trying to monitor everything and also trying to see if they had understood the topic.  

My last activity was going to be the one which was going to determine my objective. I brought to the class enough flashcards for the students to ask a question to someone else in the class, and this other had to give an answer to the question and also ask someone else a question related to the flashcard on hands. So, they were going to make like a chain of questions and answers. They have to see the flashcard and see if the image was countable or uncountable food. And related to it, they had to make the questions. To sum up, they did it nice. And I was happy because my objective had been reached. So, my class did finish greatly.