Journal entry IX

On July 12^th, the eleventh class was taught. The topics I was expected to teach were adverbs and adjectives. At the very start I did not have any idea what to plan, but as I have noticed all along the classes that they love competing. I prepared an activity in groups, and they were going to work as a team.

At the beginning of the class I took them some lyrics of a very famous song. They had to listen to the song, and then fill in the gaps. Additionally, they had to order a paragraph which was mixed in order to make it a little challenging. That was one of my favorite songs, it was the reason why I took it for them to listen.

Then, I just made my students talk about their hometowns. They had to describe it, and talk about the positive and also the negative situations around some specific topics. They were divided into 5 groups of 3 people. Every group had a topic to discus, it could be: Driving, people style, food, celebrations… This activity aimed at making them use their languages to describe real situations, and to give opinions.

As a second part of the activity, every group had to select one leader who was in charge of going to the other groups in order to spread the word about what they had been talked. The activity was called The World Café, and it seemed everyone enjoyed it. In the way I see it, when the communicative activities are kind of contextualized it is easy for students to get motivated, and to have a good time which is absolutely ideal.

I really feel the class was good, even though there were some issues when giving instructions. Maybe it was my fault they did not get what to do at the start, but I just found another way to make myself understood. I have learned a lot of my students, and I am pretty sure they have leant from me.