Week 6- vocabulary

Professions' Vocabulary.

Teachers: Daniel Reyes, Astrid Cruz, Xenia Guillén (me)

Hello everybody, today  I'm talking about my first time giving a vocabulary class, in my opinión this was an amazing class but because is my class or something like that I think this class was amazing for different factors, we as teachers always have things to improve and problems to solve but in our second time the things to improve and to solve were less than the first time we were teaching, by my own experience I can say that teaching a PDP class is harvest than a PPP class but anyways we have to learn to teach both because both are importants to students' learning.  AS I alredy say this was my second time giving class but the first time developing a PPP class, for me this class was a different experience and a better opportunity to do the activities and of course to interact with the students. I constantly say "repeat after me" but I use this technique becosuse for me work well I can hear if the students are pronouncing in the correct way and help me to se who is doing and who is not doing the activity. I'm sorry if someone get bored of heard that but as I alredy say for me this technique really works.

In this class we were teaching professions' vocabulary, at the begging of the class was not difficult to break the ice with the students, I started on time even if just 4 students were in the classroom over all the warm up activity was really nice the students could remember the structure and vocavulary of the last classes also they learn two new words "hot and cold". Then I started to show the flashcards and ask of they know the name of the profession the students knew just 3 of the 10 words so meantime I was showing the flashcards I was saying the name in Spanish and English and then I make them to repeat after me, the I put the flashcards and the name of the profession in the board and the students repeat around 3 times then I give a little time to coppy the vocabulary, in all that crosses more students came to the class and didn't know what we were doing so I explain again what they have to do and make them repeat again.  Also I explained the question "What are your favorites professions" and "my favorites professions are..." in that way they will know how to have a short conversation about that. 

Daniel's performance was really nice, his tone of voice was acording to the class, we was modeling and he used exelent materials to the activities, the first activity he played was a matching activity in the board , I could see that the students were so motivated to participate in this activity and they were helping to the ones who were doing wrong, they were focous and the most important thing they were analyzing and thinking carefully in the vocabulary just one or two students get wrong. Second activity, the soup of letters was a incredible activity was difficult to do and to found all the words but they did it, they found all the vocabulary they were focous in their soup of letters, it is true that this activity take more time than others activities but was effective, Daniel was modeling in each activity because of that the students didn't have problems to do any of the activities, the third activity memory game this game was attractive to the students and and the students use the memory could remember the numbers and also they were competing with the other group. 

Astrid's performance I really liked the way she explain the role play activity asking for help to teacher Daniel to show how they have to do the role play as I alredy say modeling is so important if you are modeling in a class everything will be easier. She was constantly monitoring if the students were doing the activity almost everybody was confused so she tried to explain group by group and then she pass them in fort to do the role play, some students were playing and speaking and she stopped that, I really love it. Then the activity of throw the ball to the imagen and say the word was awesome the students could remember all the words we teach, for us that was amazing. 

Things I liked about the class:

• Modeling.
• Monitoring.
• Tone of voice.
• Use of the material.
• We started at time 
• We could developed all the lesson plan.
• The students were focous in all the class.
• The students were motived to participed.
• Was not difficult remember vocabulary and structure.
•  Teacher's perfomance.
• Astrid correct the students after they have finishthe activity.

Things I do not liked about the class:

• Small pictures (even if we found a solutions was a problem)
• We took to more minutes of class.
• Students were talking.
• Confusion of some words.
• Students forgot the answer "my favorites professions are..."
• In the beginning of the class we ask if someone wanted to go the batroom and no one said that wanted to go and then around 5 minutos later a boy wanted to go to the batroom.
• We forgot put our names in a paper (sorry no one realized about it but I know was not okay) 

Things to improve:

• How to give instructions.
• Be carefully with  time to finish the class.
• Observation.
• To make the students play attention to their classmates.
• Production's monitoring.
• Carefully with the words we use.
• Put away the material we will not use after finish an activity (wram up).

To sum up, the class was competed, the objective was competed and we as teachers were more relax than the first time, I enjoyed to teach to the kids. At the end everything was okay and I really like this class, we tried to do it better I think we did it. Thanks for al the people that observe the class and give feedback and as alredy say this was an amazing class!

Until we meet us in another blog thanks for reading. :)