I tried to prepare an activity for them to be active and participatory. For the first moment of the class I got a short video for them to feel motivated and curious about what we were going to do. In the first classroom it worked perfect, in the other ones, it didn't work but I did what I could to replace it.
From the examples of the video I did the grammar explanation and asked the kids to give me examples. Then we did an activity were I wrote the categories of the menu (soup, salad, meat, drinks, desserts) on the board and we played "tingo-tango" for them to choose a card with a food from the menu and place them in the right category. Almost all of them were so participatory, they wanted to do the activity, for that reason, something hard, for me, at that moment was to manage discipline because they were so excited, they were yelling, jumping and running around because of the emotion of the moment.
I had to get a litte strict and give them conditions to continue playing, on the contrary, we couldn't continue.
At the end of the class, to do the evaluative activity, we wrote on our notebooks a short conversation between a waiter and a person in the restaurant, using the modal "would".
REFLECTION: kids in the class are anxious for participate, but we, as the leaders of the class, have to mediate between fun and knowledge. Also taking advantege of the situations of the
class for increasing their meaningful knowledge.
About the formative issues, although I tried to follow Alexander's tips, it is still hard for me to be focused on making reflections and interrupting the class al the time for doing it. I know it is important, of course, but not fundamental for teachers. This training is a duty from the parents, from home, I think. This task for us should be minimum.Click for watching the video used in the class.
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