English Class

After teaching this week, I understand that teaching English is a great challenge.I really feel satisfied with today´s class because even when It was the part of grammar explanation the students were practicing and giving many important information in order to make it dynamic. I consider that it was a review for them because it was related to the present perfect. The students were identifying tenses and building sentences using some adverbs. I felt very good when I could notice that most of them were giving answers and participating. The sitting arrangement was better than the last class. I placed all of them in a semicircle and they could go in front of the class and write on the board. I had many nice experiences this week. I could see that the students were also asking questions about the use of the adverbs and the placement of them when using the present perfect. I would like to use more interactive material such as a video this week, but I could not do it. If I had to teach this lesson again I surely add a video or presentation for the class in order to make it more interesting.

Class in Advanced English I

Motivation is part of success in everything.
Technology gives new opportunities to learn English in a different way. Today´s topic was about Advantages in technology. I was very happy because the lesson plan had good exercises to develop with the students. At the beginning of the class there were few students in the classroom because it was raining outside.Though,it was very nice to have all of them participating actively. They sat in different places and formed pairs to play a game. I could see that some of them didn´t want to talk more than the time that was expected.They were very shy at the beginning.During the presentation,the students were talking more and practicing about technology.There were some proves about the use of technology in the classroom because they were using the cell phones getting the pronunciation and meaning of some words.They answered a quiz of 14 questions in triads.They were testing their general knowledge about technology and science.I could notice that they were more active in this part of the lesson. The sitting arrangement was wery appropiate for the classroom and the group.I think they needed more extra activities to talk aloud. The behavior of some of them were not exactly appropiate for the class.
If had to teach this lesson again,I would try to separate the students who need more attention.