This Friday was the last day of our teaching practicum. This day was turned of Alex' group, which is composed by Alexander, Olga and Eliseo. They were in charge of teaching ''My past vacation'' and their skill was ''Reading''.
Alex started the class with a great ''puzzle'' activity as a warm up stage. He divided students in two groups, and provided a puzzle per each group. They had to form them and the group who finished the puzzle first was the winner. The puzzles were about vacations activities, so students could linked what would be the class about.
Then, Eliseo present a poster with a short part of the reading which had the vocabulary they would presented. He asked students to stand up and made a circle. Next, he gave to them a luminous ball in order to play the hot potato, every time he hit the ball, the lights went on, so students had to pass it between them; and when it turned off, the child who kept it on their hands had to pass to the board and matched the vocabulary with a picture. They matched it well. It was good because they checked if students knew the vocabulary.
After that, Olga asked students to sit down on the floor. She presented the reading with a big book, she started to reading it while the students were paying attention to her. When she finished to read it, she asked them some specific questions about the reading like ''Who was____?, ''____ was a woman or an animal?'', ''____ climbed the mountain by car or horse'', etc. They answered them correctly so that means they understood it. Then, she asked ''What is the story about'' and gave some options. Besides, she presented some possibles titles for the reading so students had to choose one.
Next, she read the reading again and provided them a worksheet of ''True or False sentences''. Everybody was working on it and as soon they completed it they compared with the classmate who was next to. Then, Olga started checking it and asking them ''Why is it false?'' and they answered it.
Later on, as post-reading, Alex gave them a page, so children drew about what they did in their past vacation. Some of them drew themselves in the beach, climbed a mountain, rode on a roller coaster, etc. Then, they pasted them on a poster that was on the wall.
Finally, as wrap up, Eliseo asked them to stand up and made a circle. He gave a big dice, which had a picture in each side of it; and the light ball again. When it turned off the one who kept it had to throw the big dice, and said a sentences using the phrase that was presenting the picture.
After the break, all the groups were in charge of develop the second class. what we did was we divide all the stage between each group. It was about the same topic ''My past vacation'', but with the listening skill.
Rocio, Katy and Beatriz started with the warm up and the pre- listening.
The warm up activity was nice. It was about ''Eggs Hunt''. Students were looking for the 8 eggs that the teachers in charge had hidden. Those eggs contained a paper with a number in side. When students found all of them, they could open them to see what number they were. Then, Beatriz gave them a picture about vacations activities, so according to the numbers students were asked to say what they did in their past vacation using the phrase that the picture represent.
In the pre-listening Rocio presented the vocabulary that appear in the listening. She was showing the picture and asking "What is that'' and the kids were answering her. She pasted the pictures and labels on the board and practiced the pronunciation with the children. Next, she removed the labels and kept them in the classroom platform. She gave to each of them a piece of paper of different color. Then, she was taking out a paper from a box and asking ''who has the yellow/pink/green... paper'' and the student who had that color had to do a mimic of the phrase Rocio had shown before; and the others students had to guess. This dynamic was amazing because the kids were so dramatic when performing that.
Fatima, Diego and I were in charge of the rest.
Diego played the audio for the first time; after that, he asked them ''How many characters were talking in the listening?'' And they said ''two''. Also, he asked them ''What are the names of the characters?'' and they answered. Next, he pasted on a poster the names of the characters.
Later on, Fatima gave them some papers of the vacations activities that were in the conversation in order they could classify what each one did. Then, she played the audio for the second time. When it finished, each students stood up and pasted on the poster the activity that each character did in their vacations. Students classified it well, so that means they had listening comprehension.
After that, I provided them a worksheet of ''filling in the blanks''. I reproduced the audio for the last time, and checked with them if they answered correct. The inconvenient I can say I had was that the children did not write fast so I had to stop the audio to give them time to write.
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