Lesson 8

During this lesson, I had high expectations because this group is very creative and very enthusiastic, and I've been learning from this group many things, such as enthusiasm, this is is one of the key factors to carry on one class, and so does positivism, because if you start  the class with a positive attitude you will transmit this to your students.

The class started with the hello song in a very unique way, they used some musical interments and make it more interesting to the students.

Teacher Kriscia  started the class with a hangman game activity.  The activity consist on having the students saying one letter of the alphabet at a time to form a sentence.
I could notice that students were struggling a little bit, but it was not because of the activity, I think that some visual aids to give them clues were missing, and those things would have made the activity work on perfectly.

After that, teacher Olmes started to review the vocabulary of last class, and presented some new vocabulary like:
-Library.
-Bank. 
-Park. 
-Hospital.
-School.

After he presented those new words of vocabulary, he teach at the interrogative question: “Is there a ______ in your town? with its answers.
 He did a great job pointing out the negative and affirmative answers,  it was an excellent explanation because the students really acquired it. 

Teacher Sussan  presented two activities, in order for students get to understand well the structures.

The first activity consisted on playing an audio while they worked i a worksheet. When they hears a place of the community they had to circle it. It was a good activity and they way she carry it out very professional. She repeated the audio twice so students had more opportunity to complete the worksheet. Then she repeated a third time, but this time she stop it and make students repeat. After they repeat, she asked 1 by 1 to check the answers they got.

­The second activity was very funny, it was a song, she sang a song acapella, so students were asked to walk around some circles that were pasted on the floor while she sang it, and when she stop singing, they had to stood in a circle. It was very dynamic, and every time she start singing again, she do it faster and faster.

I really like both activities, because students were really involved in what they were asked to do, and teacher Sussan was really aware of what they were doing, and she was enjoying it at the same time.

Teacher Josue started with a game, this game was really fun, it consist on  having two groups of students, each group had a dice, so they take turns to throw it, according to the number they got, there were spaces that has, some questions, or they had to mention places in the town, or they had to do anything at all. 

I really like this activity because it was very unique, fun and entertaining, and since it was somehow like a competition game, it was very catching for students.

To end up this lesson, teacher Xunaxi play “Sharks are coming.” She use this game to create some groups. After she created the groups. Students were asked team by team to pass, they created a town, so teacher Xunaxi make each couple interact with each other asking questions and walking to the place in the town they were asked to.

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

I really like this lesson, it was a well developed class. I learn that having games its a way easier to make students learn and enjoy at the same time. Besides that I learn that we not always need a cd player to do an activity, but since we are learning how to be teachers, it took lot of courage to sing acapella like Teacher Sussan did, and actually I enjoyed that, and I think I could use that technique in the future.