Lesson 4

During this lesson, I was really excited to see what my colleagues prepared for the students. I was expecting to see a variety of visual aids to reinforce the students knowledge, and they actually did it.

The class started with the the  hello song, as all the classes will start, And with the time it is just amazing to see how the students and the teacher  enjoy to sing the song

Teacher Olmes  started the class with a matching game activity.  The activity consist on having the students pasting the name of the playground objects they were taught last class. So, teacher Olmes arrange two columns with images and made two teams, then, they were asked to match the object with the name.

I could notice that students remember the playground object because they were able to match them.

After that, teacher Xunaxi started to present the key structure which was: Like to + verb. She used some visual aids where she was demonstrating them where and how they needed to use the -s for third person and how the verb “like” change. The materials that teacher Xunaxi  used were  colorful, they had the size required so student don't force their eyes, and it was catching because  of the colors

 She did a great job pointing out the -s, it was an excellent explanation because the students really acquired that for the pronouns She and He we need to add -s.

Teacher Josue continue with the presentation, he explain how to create questions with DO and DOES and affirmative answers. In order to make sure students understood, he passed some of them to the front and asked them to create a question with the key structure.

As well, I can say that it is really interesting the way how both keep engaged the students in the explanation.

Teacher Kriscia was encharged of the practice, she presented two activities, in order for students get to understand well the structures.

The first activity was very envolving for the students, because they were asked to make mimics. So, students were asked to choose a picture and make the mimic of it in front of the class, the rest of the students needed to find out what he or she was doing, bye saying a sentence using the structure.

­The second activity was in groups, each group of students were asked to find some flash cards that were hidden in the classroom, so at the end they can form a sentence.

I really like both activities, because students were really involved in what they were asked to do, and teacher Kriscia was really aware of what they were doing.

When it comes into the production part, teacher Sussan started with a game, this game was really fun, it was a game called “trees and squirrels”. it consist on  two students will hold their hands to form a house, that in this case will be the tree,  and the rest of the students, that in this case were the squirrels,  walked fast in the middle of the house. When teacher Sussan say the word “stop” the student that is inside the house were asked to say a sentence.

After having that game, she gave them some flascards, and asked the students to write a sentence according to the image that the flashcard had. When they were done with the sentence, they were asked to pass in front of the class to read it aloud.

I think both activities were accurate, including a game was really clever because it reduces the anxiety, and after having them relaxed they were asked to write a sentence, and they did it perfectly.

To end up this lesson, teacher Josue play Frozen game. Students were walking around the classroom. When they heard the word “frozen” they froze and the one who moves was asked to say a sentence using like to +verb.

I really like this activity because it was fun, and it was a good way to see if students actually acquired the knowledge.

Ans as usual, they end up the class with the song.

I really like this lesson even though there were some details that could have improved, like give the students limitation about the space they needed to use in the frozen game. But besides that it was a well developed class. I learn from this group, that even if we get into the production part, we can incorporate a game to make it more meaningful and more interesting for the students.