Today we are begun our practices in the school El Carmen. My tutors have decided that I will spend some days observing how the class is working, so today I have see how both students and teacher behave in class. However I have also helped the students with some activities and I have answered the doubts they had.
I wrote yesterday my experience in my first day of practices in the other section of the blog (ESO. Proposals for developing different skills), but since today I am going to write the practices comments in this section. Today I have had a calm day because I have been with two groups of 4º E.S.O and Mª Jesús in both groups has put a film (Mississippi Burning)that students began to watch last week so they had to finish it and it has took the whole hour. At the end of the class she has asked to the students which aspects most like of the film and which less. I have told her that I read a book in Englsih called Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison which deals also with racims so tomorrow I am going to give her the book and she has said to me that maybe she can takes a part of it to give it to the students for reading and analyzing it.
Also today I have photocopied the unit 7 of each curse (3º and 4º) in order to have a guide during the lessons that I am observing and in order to know better what are they doing during the lesson. And I have meet one group that yesterday had not got English class: 4ºc. That´s all!
Yesterday I attended to the class of 2º Bachillerato with my tutor Mª Carmen Casares. It was the first time I attended this class, so she introduced me to the students and then I was observing the way she gave the lesson. We were checking some exercises about the passive with two objects, similar to what they are asked to do in the exam of “selectividad”.
On the other hand I attended the class of 2º ESO with my tutor Pilar Perez. Here we were listening a conversation in English and then doing some activities about this listening. In this case I resolved the students’ doubts about the activities they have to do and then I was encouraged of checking the answers.
Today I had had only one class with 2º ESO. In this occasion we have done some exercises related with the vocabulary of travels and means of transports, and then we have done a dictation and then we checked it in the blackboard.
Today I have had four hours: three with groups of 4º E.S.O and one with a group of 3º. In 4º B and D we have finished the film and commented it. In the other one, 4º A, I have introduced myself and they have made me some questions English in order to meet me better. Then they had to ask to their classmates about their experience in France (because today some students that were doing an exchange in France have arrived) so they have been talking in English. Then the teacher has put a song and they had to fill the gaps. It has been very successful because they have enjoyed the song because it is very up-to-date and they have filled all the gaps rightly. The teacher has told me that she preferred to do oral and listening activities today with this group because it is a little bit problematic and like it was the last hour of the day they are more excited so she has left grammar for the next day that they have class earlier. In the group of 3º we have checked the homework: in this case as it has been volunteers they have checked it in the blackboard and orally; when there are no volunteers she takes the list and asks to check the exercise to the student she considers opportune. Then the teacher has asked them some questions in relation with the vocabulary of the unit and they have been answering. After that she has written in the blackboard all the vocabulary students have been saying and they have copied it in their notebooks. Finally she has given to them some sentences in Spanish to translate into English for the next day.
Today it has been a very interesting day for me. Firstly I have entered the class of 2º Bach with Mª Carmen Casares, and she has suggested me to correct the exercises that students had to do, so I have been checking their answers and explaining them. I have really enjoyed. Secondly I have been in the class of 2º ESO with Pilar Perez, and we have been listening a conversation in English and them doing some activities about this listening. Then I have interacted with the students speaking with them about travels and means of transport, the topics they are dealing with right now.
Today I had had only one class with 2º ESO. In this occasion I have attended to class with Mathew, a native American teacher who offers children the possibility of interact with a native and hear his accent. So he proposed activities mainly to be done orally and students had to speak between each others and with us. Today I have help Mathew with these activities.
During the first hour today I have been explained some exercises that the students of 2º Bach. had to do about the structure “to have something done”, and about the conditionals. Second, I have been controlling the students of 2º Bach. in a exam they had to do, because their teacher and my tutor Mª Carmen Casares had to go out. After the break I have put into practice the lesson plan I have done, with he students of 2º ESO. It has been a wonderful experience.
Today I have continued with the activities I have proposed in the lesson plan I did. I think students have understood perfectly the theory and they are able to create structures with the present continuous for future arrangements.
Today, during the first hour with 2º Bach. I have been correcting the exercises that the students had to do about the relatives. I have been checking their answers and explaining them. Then I have been explaining the present continuous for future arrangements in other class of 2º ESO, following the lesson plan I have prepared previously.
Today was my first day. I started with 1ºB where we were singing some songs about greetings and numbers. We were revising vocabulary related to houses (living room, bedroom, kitchen...) and they did some activities related to the vocabulary. They also coloured some draws. Finally they cut some cards and they played to bingo. In 6ªB we were correcting the homework (some exercices and comparative senteces). They did a phonetic activity in which they had to found the sounds that were being repeated. They did a reading and a listening of a text in past tense, then they translated it orally into Spanish. Finally, they did some exercises from the activity book. In 5ºA we were correcting some exercices and comparative sentences also. Then they did a reading and a listening of a text called 'How does fruit grow?', and they translated it into Spanish. Finally, the teacher divided the class into two groups and they did a kind of competition usin true and false sentences from the text. Very nice beginning!
Today was my second day. The first class has been 5ºB. They had a test about irregular verbs in which they were given the verb in Spanish and they had to complete the forms in English, of course. We were correcting some sentences in comparative form and some activities form the activity book about irregular verbs. The topic used to introduce the grammar point was environment. They also translated some difficult sentences into Spanish. They had started a new lesson and the topic is ‘Seasons’. They did a listening of a text and two poems and they repeated. The poems were written using comparative sentences. Finally, they started to do some exercises from the activity book.
In 6ºB we corrected some comparative and superlative sentences they had as homework for the weekend. We corrected some exercises from the activity book about past tense and they translate into Spanish. They read the text they had written about the things they did during the weekend. We also corrected the bilingual dictionary. Finally, they played bingo using some words of the previous units.
To finish my day, I have been with 6ºA. The procedure was more or less the same as in 6ºB. We also corrected some sentences and some exercises from the work book using past tense. Finally, we completed the bilingual dictionary at the same time we were correcting it.
Today was my third day. I started with 2ºA, which was a new class for me. We sang the usual songs about numbers and greetings and then I started given them the class. We revised the parts of the face using some cards and a clown draw in the blackboard. We corrected the activities from the activity book on colors and parts of the face. We corrected some sentences (they had as homework) using parts of the face and adjectives. They were playing to bingo with the cards corresponding to the current unit and they also were playing in couples to find two cards with the same word. They had to pronounce them correctly in order to win the ‘contest’. 1ºA was also new for me. We were singing some songs about greetings and numbers too. We were revising vocabulary related to houses with the help of some cards. They did some activities related to the vocabulary. To be precise, it was a listening in order to find a character in a specific room of the house. They also colored some draws. They cut some cards and they played to bingo. Then, every child had to pronounce correctly one word included in the vocabulary they are learning and the others had to show the corresponding card. Finally, they started to do some exercises from the activity book and they have to finish them for the next day.
I only had a 30 minutes class with 1ºB today. We were singing the same songs as usually and then they were learning a song that includes the different rooms of a house. Finally, they played to bingo.
Today I have been with 6º and 5º. The first class was 6ºA and we did the revision of the unit. They corrected the answers of their classmates because they exchanged their workbooks. It was a kind of warm up for the exam, and they had the opportunity to ask any question they had. Finally, they did the exam.
In 6ºB we did exactly the same, but we had enough time to correct the listening part of the exam.
In 5ºB we corrected some activities about the family using comparative sentences. We also did and corrected the bilingual dictionary.
Finally, in 5ºA they did a test on verbs. We corrected the sentences they had as homework (comparative sentences) and the teacher started to explain them the imperatives.
Today I was with 1ºB in the first place. We sang the typical songs about greetings, the numbers and the vocabulary of the class. We introduced new vocabulary about the materials that can be used to build houses (stone, bricks, wood and straw). We did two exercises from the book. Then the mascot of their books appeared in class because of a kind of agreement the school has with the publishing house. Then the class in 1ºA was more or less the same, but this time I had the total control of the class. In that case we could do four exercises. Finally, in 5ºA the explanation about imperatives was finished and they had to say one imperative sentence each. We started the new unit of the book, and they listened, repeated and translated into Spanish the text. It was composed of some imperatives related to the good behavior in the forest. Then they listened, translated and sang a song. Then they did some activities.
Today I have been in 6ºA, 5ºA, 2ºA and 1ºB. I have introduced a new unit to 6ºA called ‘changing school’. It deals with the subjects they are going to have next year in the 1st level of secondary education. I have presented the vocabulary (chemistry, physics, literature…) and they have heard the song of the unit. They I asked them to read it and translate it into Spanish (one sentence each). They copied the new words in their personal dictionary and I asked them to make questions fallowing the structure ‘do you want to study literature?’. Then they had time to do two exercises from the workbook dealing with this vocabulary too.
In 5ºA we corrected some comparative sentences, as we usually do. We also corrected some exercises from the workbook. They sang the song that corresponds to the unit we are studying dealing with the protection of the forest. Then, they listened a story told as a kind of comic. They had to read and translate it. In 2ºA I explained the difference between ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ and ‘he’ and ‘she’. They I gave to them a paper with the draw of two face (one of a girl and the other of a boy). They had no features drawn and I gave them some instructions in order to draw the faces. For example, ‘she has a big nose’, ‘he has blue eyes’ or ‘he has brown hear’, among many others. Finally when they finished, they colored the rest of the draw and they had to write one sentence (of my instructions) under the draws.
In 1ºB, as it was a 30 minutes class, we only had time to revise the vocabulary related to the part of the house. They played to bingo, under different rules, various times, and they also played in pairs to memory card.
Today I have been in 5ºB , 6ºB and 6ºA. In 5ºB they had done the revision of the unit and then the exam about the rules of behaving in the forest. They exchanged their activity books and corrected it. Then they did the exam and they also corrected it in the same way.
In 6ºB we have corrected some sentences before, as we usually do. I have introduced the new unit called ‘changing school’, as I yesterday did. I have presented the vocabulary and they have listened the song of the unit. They I asked them to read it and translate it into Spanish (one sentence each). They copied the new words in their personal dictionary and I asked them to make questions fallowing the structure ‘do you want to study literature?’. Then they had time to do two exercises from the activity book dealing with this vocabulary too. Finally, the teacher explained them the new grammar point (‘to be going to’).
To finish my day, I have been in 6ºA. We also corrected some sentences and the teacher explained the new grammar point. Then we corrected the exercises from the activity book they had as homework. I presented a new dialogue; they listened to it, read it, translated it and act it. Finally, they cut the cards of the unit and they had to practise the new grammar point in pairs using them.
Today it was my last day with the younger classes. I finished the lesson plan I prepared for 2ºA. We first sang some songs and then I gave them a piece of paper with 6 different draws (each one pointing out one part of the face). They had to write the correct word, color them, as they liked, and cut the cards. We revised the new words they learned the last day (he and she) and finally they had time to play bingo and to memory game. Then I went to 1ºA where we also sang some songs. Using a cd and some cards the teacher told them tale called ‘the 3 little pigs tale’. Then she asked them some questions in order to revise the vocabulary related to material for building houses. They enjoyed a lot! And then they had to do some exercises from the activity book.
Finally, I did the same thing as the teacher did in 1ºB. However, we only had time to do 1 exercise, because it was a 30 minutes class.
Today was my last day. It was a little bit sad because I wanted to stay more.
In 6ºA we made a listening. I asked them to read the text, and translate it into Spanish. Then they did another listening with questions about the text. We corrected some exercises from the activity book and from the exercise book called ‘let’s find about grammar’. Finally, they corrected the listening part of the exam.
In 6ºB the finished copy the new point of grammar. We corrected some sentences. And then we did the same as in 6ºA, but we had not enough time to correct the exam.
In 5ºB we corrected the exam and we solved some doubts. They have corrected their own exam.
Finally, in 5ºA we corrected some exercises from the activity book. Then we finished the unit about the forest and the rules of behavior. They did some exercises from the activity book and we corrected the poster they had to as homework about imperatives.
I hope you are enjoying your practicum. As you know, this year I am spending most of my time working in the Canary Islands. That is why I decided to do my training programme in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria instead of in Córdoba. I have been taking notes about the tasks carried out in class every day to describe them in the Practicum Final Report, of course, but I didn’t know that we were supposed to post entries describing our daily activities for the class blog. I thought you were writing these entries just out of pleasure! It is not worth giving you now a full account of what I have done up to this moment. I prefer to provide you with a very general overview of my experience, which has been very gratifying and, hopefully, will continue to be so. Nevertheless, if you are interested in the details of my training process, you can read the following excerpt, taken from a letter describing my experience to a friend:
“… Estuve barajando varias opciones. No sabía si realizar las prácticas en el IES López Neyra (el instituto de Córdoba donde hice las prácticas del máster de Inglés), en el IES Pérez Galdós (instituto de Las Palmas que está al lado de la facultad donde trabajo), en el IES Tomás Morales (instituto de Las Palmas donde estudié el COU) o en el Colegio Teresiano (colegio concertado en que estudié la EGB y el BUP). Finalmente me decidí por Las Palmas, pues es ahí donde paso la mayor parte de los días lectivos. Y más en concreto, después de varias gestiones infructuosas en los institutos, donde me planteaban incontables problemas (me daban largas o me decían explícitamente que no querían convenios ni alumnos haciendo prácticas), me aceptaron en el colegio concertado
Aunque el convenio está todavía en proceso de firma (“las cosas de palacio van despacio”), llevo ya un tiempo yendo al centro y estoy muy contenta. Las instalaciones son estupendas, los profesores son muy amables -muchos de ellos son antiguos profesores míos- y los alumnos tienen, en general, un nivel alto de inglés. Es verdad que hay grupos buenos y grupos malos. Ayer, sin más, a un chico se le reventó una pulsera y empezaron a tirarse las cuentas unos a otros, con la mala fortuna de que una me cayó a mí. Pero esto es sólo una anécdota sin importancia. Salvo ese grupo (4ºC) -con el que absolutamente todos los profesores han tenido problemas-, los alumnos están muy receptivos y se les ve interesados en el inglés.
During this week, apart from supervising and correcting exams –which is not a very amusing task–, I have had the opportunity to envisage and put into practice my own activities for 3rd and 4th year of ESO. The ones that the students enjoyed the most were those concerning gender roles and stereotypes in the mass media and the modern prevalence of new models of family and partnership in society. Both activities included exercises focused on listening and speaking (and, to a lesser extent, on reading and writing). The students especially liked the listening comprehension exercises (songs “Bring honor to us all”, “I’ll make a man out of you” and “The Brady Bunch”), and appreciated the opportunity to discuss gender roles in society and to express their opinions about sexism, domestic violence, divorce and homosexual marriages. They have a very good level of English. They were able to understand the main points of my lecturette, to write down very accurate answers for the questions put forward in their worksheet, and to give quite lengthy and well-structured explanations for their opinions. This has been a very gratifying experience for me and, so I hope, for them.
Today we are begun our practices in the school El Carmen. My tutors have decided that I will spend some days observing how the class is working, so today I have see how both students and teacher behave in class. However I have also helped the students with some activities and I have answered the doubts they had.
ResponderEliminarI wrote yesterday my experience in my first day of practices in the other section of the blog (ESO. Proposals for developing different skills), but since today I am going to write the practices comments in this section.
ResponderEliminarToday I have had a calm day because I have been with two groups of 4º E.S.O and Mª Jesús in both groups has put a film (Mississippi Burning)that students began to watch last week so they had to finish it and it has took the whole hour. At the end of the class she has asked to the students which aspects most like of the film and which less. I have told her that I read a book in Englsih called Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison which deals also with racims so tomorrow I am going to give her the book and she has said to me that maybe she can takes a part of it to give it to the students for reading and analyzing it.
Also today I have photocopied the unit 7 of each curse (3º and 4º) in order to have a guide during the lessons that I am observing and in order to know better what are they doing during the lesson. And I have meet one group that yesterday had not got English class: 4ºc.
ResponderEliminarThat´s all!
Yesterday I attended to the class of 2º Bachillerato with my tutor Mª Carmen Casares. It was the first time I attended this class, so she introduced me to the students and then I was observing the way she gave the lesson. We were checking some exercises about the passive with two objects, similar to what they are asked to do in the exam of “selectividad”.
ResponderEliminarOn the other hand I attended the class of 2º ESO with my tutor Pilar Perez. Here we were listening a conversation in English and then doing some activities about this listening. In this case I resolved the students’ doubts about the activities they have to do and then I was encouraged of checking the answers.
Today I had had only one class with 2º ESO. In this occasion we have done some exercises related with the vocabulary of travels and means of transports, and then we have done a dictation and then we checked it in the blackboard.
ResponderEliminarToday I have had four hours: three with groups of 4º E.S.O and one with a group of 3º. In 4º B and D we have finished the film and commented it. In the other one, 4º A, I have introduced myself and they have made me some questions English in order to meet me better. Then they had to ask to their classmates about their experience in France (because today some students that were doing an exchange in France have arrived) so they have been talking in English. Then the teacher has put a song and they had to fill the gaps. It has been very successful because they have enjoyed the song because it is very up-to-date and they have filled all the gaps rightly. The teacher has told me that she preferred to do oral and listening activities today with this group because it is a little bit problematic and like it was the last hour of the day they are more excited so she has left grammar for the next day that they have class earlier.
ResponderEliminarIn the group of 3º we have checked the homework: in this case as it has been volunteers they have checked it in the blackboard and orally; when there are no volunteers she takes the list and asks to check the exercise to the student she considers opportune. Then the teacher has asked them some questions in relation with the vocabulary of the unit and they have been answering. After that she has written in the blackboard all the vocabulary students have been saying and they have copied it in their notebooks. Finally she has given to them some sentences in Spanish to translate into English for the next day.
Today it has been a very interesting day for me. Firstly I have entered the class of 2º Bach with Mª Carmen Casares, and she has suggested me to correct the exercises that students had to do, so I have been checking their answers and explaining them. I have really enjoyed. Secondly I have been in the class of 2º ESO with Pilar Perez, and we have been listening a conversation in English and them doing some activities about this listening. Then I have interacted with the students speaking with them about travels and means of transport, the topics they are dealing with right now.
ResponderEliminarToday I had had only one class with 2º ESO. In this occasion I have attended to class with Mathew, a native American teacher who offers children the possibility of interact with a native and hear his accent. So he proposed activities mainly to be done orally and students had to speak between each others and with us. Today I have help Mathew with these activities.
ResponderEliminarDuring the first hour today I have been explained some exercises that the students of 2º Bach. had to do about the structure “to have something done”, and about the conditionals. Second, I have been controlling the students of 2º Bach. in a exam they had to do, because their teacher and my tutor Mª Carmen Casares had to go out. After the break I have put into practice the lesson plan I have done, with he students of 2º ESO. It has been a wonderful experience.
ResponderEliminarToday I have continued with the activities I have proposed in the lesson plan I did. I think students have understood perfectly the theory and they are able to create structures with the present continuous for future arrangements.
ResponderEliminarToday, during the first hour with 2º Bach. I have been correcting the exercises that the students had to do about the relatives. I have been checking their answers and explaining them. Then I have been explaining the present continuous for future arrangements in other class of 2º ESO, following the lesson plan I have prepared previously.
ResponderEliminarToday was my first day. I started with 1ºB where we were singing some songs about greetings and numbers. We were revising vocabulary related to houses (living room, bedroom, kitchen...) and they did some activities related to the vocabulary. They also coloured some draws. Finally they cut some cards and they played to bingo.
ResponderEliminarIn 6ªB we were correcting the homework (some exercices and comparative senteces). They did a phonetic activity in which they had to found the sounds that were being repeated. They did a reading and a listening of a text in past tense, then they translated it orally into Spanish. Finally, they did some exercises from the activity book.
In 5ºA we were correcting some exercices and comparative sentences also. Then they did a reading and a listening of a text called 'How does fruit grow?', and they translated it into Spanish. Finally, the teacher divided the class into two groups and they did a kind of competition usin true and false sentences from the text.
Very nice beginning!
Today was my second day. The first class has been 5ºB. They had a test about irregular verbs in which they were given the verb in Spanish and they had to complete the forms in English, of course. We were correcting some sentences in comparative form and some activities form the activity book about irregular verbs. The topic used to introduce the grammar point was environment. They also translated some difficult sentences into Spanish. They had started a new lesson and the topic is ‘Seasons’. They did a listening of a text and two poems and they repeated. The poems were written using comparative sentences. Finally, they started to do some exercises from the activity book.
ResponderEliminarIn 6ºB we corrected some comparative and superlative sentences they had as homework for the weekend. We corrected some exercises from the activity book about past tense and they translate into Spanish. They read the text they had written about the things they did during the weekend. We also corrected the bilingual dictionary. Finally, they played bingo using some words of the previous units.
To finish my day, I have been with 6ºA. The procedure was more or less the same as in 6ºB. We also corrected some sentences and some exercises from the work book using past tense. Finally, we completed the bilingual dictionary at the same time we were correcting it.
Today was my third day. I started with 2ºA, which was a new class for me. We sang the usual songs about numbers and greetings and then I started given them the class. We revised the parts of the face using some cards and a clown draw in the blackboard. We corrected the activities from the activity book on colors and parts of the face. We corrected some sentences (they had as homework) using parts of the face and adjectives. They were playing to bingo with the cards corresponding to the current unit and they also were playing in couples to find two cards with the same word. They had to pronounce them correctly in order to win the ‘contest’.
ResponderEliminar1ºA was also new for me. We were singing some songs about greetings and numbers too. We were revising vocabulary related to houses with the help of some cards. They did some activities related to the vocabulary. To be precise, it was a listening in order to find a character in a specific room of the house. They also colored some draws. They cut some cards and they played to bingo. Then, every child had to pronounce correctly one word included in the vocabulary they are learning and the others had to show the corresponding card. Finally, they started to do some exercises from the activity book and they have to finish them for the next day.
I only had a 30 minutes class with 1ºB today. We were singing the same songs as usually and then they were learning a song that includes the different rooms of a house. Finally, they played to bingo.
Today I have been with 6º and 5º.
ResponderEliminarThe first class was 6ºA and we did the revision of the unit. They corrected the answers of their classmates because they exchanged their workbooks. It was a kind of warm up for the exam, and they had the opportunity to ask any question they had. Finally, they did the exam.
In 6ºB we did exactly the same, but we had enough time to correct the listening part of the exam.
In 5ºB we corrected some activities about the family using comparative sentences. We also did and corrected the bilingual dictionary.
Finally, in 5ºA they did a test on verbs. We corrected the sentences they had as homework (comparative sentences) and the teacher started to explain them the imperatives.
Today I was with 1ºB in the first place. We sang the typical songs about greetings, the numbers and the vocabulary of the class. We introduced new vocabulary about the materials that can be used to build houses (stone, bricks, wood and straw). We did two exercises from the book. Then the mascot of their books appeared in class because of a kind of agreement the school has with the publishing house.
ResponderEliminarThen the class in 1ºA was more or less the same, but this time I had the total control of the class. In that case we could do four exercises.
Finally, in 5ºA the explanation about imperatives was finished and they had to say one imperative sentence each. We started the new unit of the book, and they listened, repeated and translated into Spanish the text. It was composed of some imperatives related to the good behavior in the forest. Then they listened, translated and sang a song. Then they did some activities.
Today I have been in 6ºA, 5ºA, 2ºA and 1ºB.
ResponderEliminarI have introduced a new unit to 6ºA called ‘changing school’. It deals with the subjects they are going to have next year in the 1st level of secondary education. I have presented the vocabulary (chemistry, physics, literature…) and they have heard the song of the unit. They I asked them to read it and translate it into Spanish (one sentence each). They copied the new words in their personal dictionary and I asked them to make questions fallowing the structure ‘do you want to study literature?’. Then they had time to do two exercises from the workbook dealing with this vocabulary too.
In 5ºA we corrected some comparative sentences, as we usually do. We also corrected some exercises from the workbook. They sang the song that corresponds to the unit we are studying dealing with the protection of the forest. Then, they listened a story told as a kind of comic. They had to read and translate it.
In 2ºA I explained the difference between ‘boy’ and ‘girl’ and ‘he’ and ‘she’. They I gave to them a paper with the draw of two face (one of a girl and the other of a boy). They had no features drawn and I gave them some instructions in order to draw the faces. For example, ‘she has a big nose’, ‘he has blue eyes’ or ‘he has brown hear’, among many others. Finally when they finished, they colored the rest of the draw and they had to write one sentence (of my instructions) under the draws.
In 1ºB, as it was a 30 minutes class, we only had time to revise the vocabulary related to the part of the house. They played to bingo, under different rules, various times, and they also played in pairs to memory card.
Today I have been in 5ºB , 6ºB and 6ºA.
ResponderEliminarIn 5ºB they had done the revision of the unit and then the exam about the rules of behaving in the forest. They exchanged their activity books and corrected it. Then they did the exam and they also corrected it in the same way.
In 6ºB we have corrected some sentences before, as we usually do. I have introduced the new unit called ‘changing school’, as I yesterday did. I have presented the vocabulary and they have listened the song of the unit. They I asked them to read it and translate it into Spanish (one sentence each). They copied the new words in their personal dictionary and I asked them to make questions fallowing the structure ‘do you want to study literature?’. Then they had time to do two exercises from the activity book dealing with this vocabulary too. Finally, the teacher explained them the new grammar point (‘to be going to’).
To finish my day, I have been in 6ºA. We also corrected some sentences and the teacher explained the new grammar point. Then we corrected the exercises from the activity book they had as homework. I presented a new dialogue; they listened to it, read it, translated it and act it. Finally, they cut the cards of the unit and they had to practise the new grammar point in pairs using them.
Today it was my last day with the younger classes. I finished the lesson plan I prepared for 2ºA. We first sang some songs and then I gave them a piece of paper with 6 different draws (each one pointing out one part of the face). They had to write the correct word, color them, as they liked, and cut the cards. We revised the new words they learned the last day (he and she) and finally they had time to play bingo and to memory game.
ResponderEliminarThen I went to 1ºA where we also sang some songs. Using a cd and some cards the teacher told them tale called ‘the 3 little pigs tale’. Then she asked them some questions in order to revise the vocabulary related to material for building houses. They enjoyed a lot! And then they had to do some exercises from the activity book.
Finally, I did the same thing as the teacher did in 1ºB. However, we only had time to do 1 exercise, because it was a 30 minutes class.
Today was my last day. It was a little bit sad because I wanted to stay more.
ResponderEliminarIn 6ºA we made a listening. I asked them to read the text, and translate it into Spanish. Then they did another listening with questions about the text. We corrected some exercises from the activity book and from the exercise book called ‘let’s find about grammar’. Finally, they corrected the listening part of the exam.
In 6ºB the finished copy the new point of grammar. We corrected some sentences. And then we did the same as in 6ºA, but we had not enough time to correct the exam.
In 5ºB we corrected the exam and we solved some doubts. They have corrected their own exam.
Finally, in 5ºA we corrected some exercises from the activity book. Then we finished the unit about the forest and the rules of behavior. They did some exercises from the activity book and we corrected the poster they had to as homework about imperatives.
Dear classmates,
ResponderEliminarI hope you are enjoying your practicum. As you know, this year I am spending most of my time working in the Canary Islands. That is why I decided to do my training programme in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria instead of in Córdoba. I have been taking notes about the tasks carried out in class every day to describe them in the Practicum Final Report, of course, but I didn’t know that we were supposed to post entries describing our daily activities for the class blog. I thought you were writing these entries just out of pleasure! It is not worth giving you now a full account of what I have done up to this moment. I prefer to provide you with a very general overview of my experience, which has been very gratifying and, hopefully, will continue to be so. Nevertheless, if you are interested in the details of my training process, you can read the following excerpt, taken from a letter describing my experience to a friend:
“… Estuve barajando varias opciones. No sabía si realizar las prácticas en el IES López Neyra (el instituto de Córdoba donde hice las prácticas del máster de Inglés), en el IES Pérez Galdós (instituto de Las Palmas que está al lado de la facultad donde trabajo), en el IES Tomás Morales (instituto de Las Palmas donde estudié el COU) o en el Colegio Teresiano (colegio concertado en que estudié la EGB y el BUP). Finalmente me decidí por Las Palmas, pues es ahí donde paso la mayor parte de los días lectivos. Y más en concreto, después de varias gestiones infructuosas en los institutos, donde me planteaban incontables problemas (me daban largas o me decían explícitamente que no querían convenios ni alumnos haciendo prácticas), me aceptaron en el colegio concertado
Aunque el convenio está todavía en proceso de firma (“las cosas de palacio van despacio”), llevo ya un tiempo yendo al centro y estoy muy contenta. Las instalaciones son estupendas, los profesores son muy amables -muchos de ellos son antiguos profesores míos- y los alumnos tienen, en general, un nivel alto de inglés. Es verdad que hay grupos buenos y grupos malos. Ayer, sin más, a un chico se le reventó una pulsera y empezaron a tirarse las cuentas unos a otros, con la mala fortuna de que una me cayó a mí. Pero esto es sólo una anécdota sin importancia. Salvo ese grupo (4ºC) -con el que absolutamente todos los profesores han tenido problemas-, los alumnos están muy receptivos y se les ve interesados en el inglés.
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ResponderEliminarDuring this week, apart from supervising and correcting exams –which is not a very amusing task–, I have had the opportunity to envisage and put into practice my own activities for 3rd and 4th year of ESO. The ones that the students enjoyed the most were those concerning gender roles and stereotypes in the mass media and the modern prevalence of new models of family and partnership in society. Both activities included exercises focused on listening and speaking (and, to a lesser extent, on reading and writing). The students especially liked the listening comprehension exercises (songs “Bring honor to us all”, “I’ll make a man out of you” and “The Brady Bunch”), and appreciated the opportunity to discuss gender roles in society and to express their opinions about sexism, domestic violence, divorce and homosexual marriages. They have a very good level of English. They were able to understand the main points of my lecturette, to write down very accurate answers for the questions put forward in their worksheet, and to give quite lengthy and well-structured explanations for their opinions. This has been a very gratifying experience for me and, so I hope, for them.
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