Lesson 11

This was our third and final lesson. We had high expectations for it. We worked really hard because we wanted to end up with great result.

To star with our lesson, after singing our opening hello song, we had our warm up by teacher Yenifer, this time she  did two activities.

The first one was a song, it purpose was to students get familiar with the topic the song was about the time and it include vocabulary like: what time is it? 1 o'clock, 2'oclock and so on, students and teacher were doing some  mimics while the song was on.

The second activity was about to form a clock. Teacher Yenifer gave some number to the students so they, students and teacher, can form a clock.

After having that, teacher Wanda started to present the vocabulary that was some daily routines like: get up, eat lunch, do the homework, and go to bed. She made emphasis on the pronunciation of the words. She also made use of a big clock that was pasted on the wall, to present exact hours such as  7 o'clock, 11 o'clock. She present the question "What time is it?" and the answer: " It is 7:00 o'clock, time to get up." In order to student get the vocabulary, the pronunciation, and the structure, they were asked to repeat, question and answer. Teacher and students were taking turns to ask and answer.

During the listening time, teacher Deyanira did two activities.

The first activity was a lottery game, where students were asked to work individually, there worked in a worksheet. The teacher was saying some commands, and when the students listen to the command , they will have to put up a bean in the corresponding space, until get all the images with beans.

The second activity, students were working in pairs, each pair received some pieces of paper, one that has the question: "What time is it?", and two more that were daily routines. Students were asked to ask and answer with their classmate. They had some time to work by themselves, father that teacher Deyanira, pass each pair to the front and they were doing the exact same thing, the y were taking turns to ask and to answer.

It is time for the post listening, and this time Teacher Luis  did two activities.

The first was a memory game. Students worked individually and they were asked to take turns and pass to the front to find two equal images, when they found it, they were asked to say what they found, for example, "Get up".

For the second activity, Students were passing a toy and when they hear the word "stop" the one that has it, had to pass to the front. When they get there a daily routine was given and they had to put the hour in the big clock and then, he or she, was asked by the teacher and the rest of the classmates: "What time is it?" then he or she had to answer the daily routine he was given and the hour he marked .

For the wrap up, I played with the students, Simon says. I say commands like: Touch go to bed, or, touch 7 o'clock. The purpose of this activity was just to reinforce and make them remember al the hours and the daily routines. 

For me, this was the most challenging lesson we had to teach. We made up 3 times the lesson plan, because we were not convinced in some activities, and in some specific vocabulary. But at the end, we decided to make it simple but relevant for the student, and that is why we just present some four basic daily routines with exact hours. 

This taught me that even if the topic we had to develop seems the most difficult, when we make it simple, think like students, and make it relevant, we can end up with great results.