Journal entry VIII

On June 21^st, the tenth class was taught. This time the class was about comparatives and superlatives. I planned all the activities and my advisor just checked them in order to give me some feedback on them. As usual he advised me to continue with the communicative activities, and every time to make them more meaningful.

That Friday when the lesson was taught, I greeted all of them, and I just made them talk to the person next to them about how life was at school and how it is at University. They were very talkative, and it was noticeable they wanted to talk a lot about the topic. When they were done, I just played a video that summarized all what they had talked of. Life at university changes drastically, and that was exactly what I wanted them to compare.

As they really liked the topic I made them talk in pairs. They had to something similar to what they did at the very start, but then there were some categories’ for them to focus on, such as: Love, free time, social life, friends, money… It was easy for them to use all along the conversation some comparative forms. When they had some questions I just stopped for a moment the activity and I gave them a general feedback about how the correspondent grammar rules work. That activity was shared later and everyone had very similar answers.

Finally, it was carried out a communicative activity in order for them to practice the superlative form. That was very fun. They were standing up, and talking to different partners. They were supposed to administer a survey. They had to find “The Most” from the classroom, the most intelligent, the cutest, the laziest… That activity was at the start aimed to make them talk, and to have a good time. They really liked it, and they were absolutely attentive.

That was a very good class. I felt very comfortable and I was glad because the mood of the class was positive all the time. Maybe in future lessons I could take care of the organization of the classroom, perhaps there were some issues with the space, but I guess it was masked right away by the lot of fun they were having.