UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE EL SALVADOR

Subject: Teaching Practicum I

Teacher: Ovidio Torres

Practitioner: Velkis Rosales

Level: Intermediate English ll

Tutor: Walter Ernesto Alvarenga

FIRST REACTION PAPER
(Third Period)

Describe What I could see in this slice of the lesson is that almost all the students paid attention to me. The teacher told me that they were quiet almost all the time and it really helped me with my grade. Moreover, they were focused on what I was doing in the class. During the grammar explanation they used to write fast what I wrote in the board but they did not like to ask, maybe they did not know how to ask in English but they asked each other in Spanish. On the other hand, I tried to use understandable words because they were intermediate students and they were going to get lost if I used complex words. The teacher was attentive to see what I was doing. The seating arrangement was the common one because the space is too small to get the students to sit down in a semi-circle or the horseshoe. In my first class I had to teach the grammar explanation about relative clauses (whose, when, where) But before I made a short warm up and then a presentation introducing the new topic. The material I used were the board, sheet of paper, charts, and the book.
(Analyze)		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
Since I started a new topic for them, they used to feel kind of confused at the very beginning, but when I taught the grammar explanation they had clear ideas about the use of whose, when and where using relative clauses. I think that Intermediate level is a level where the teacher can take advantage of what they have learned in the basic level; so, in this case they can give their point of view about a doubt or they can say the teacher what they think about it. I can say that assign not too much difficult practices will help the students to understand better a determinate topic.	Based on what I already know about grammar explanation, I think that it will help the students to understand a topic but if you as a teacher give them clear and understandable explanation about the topic. Based on what I observed, the students of this level are really afraid of asking for doubts. So, what I did in this case was to start with the controlled practice where I could notice if they understood or not. I believe that difficult practices can hinder the students at the moment to put into practice what they learned because they can get confused and they will make mistakes.	So, in the future, I will take into consideration to teach the grammar explanation including more examples for the students to get better ideas about the topic. The next time I teach this lesson, I will try to transmit more self-confidence where they can feel more comfortable and do not be afraid of making mistakes. In future lessons, I will implement practices in which the students can understand better the topic but taking into consideration the adequate practices for not to confuse the students.