UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE EL SALVADOR

Subject: Teaching Practicum I

Teacher: Ovidio Torres

Practitioner: Velkis Rosales

Level: Intermediate English ll

Tutor: Walter Ernesto Alvarenga

SECOND REACTION PAPER
(Third Period)

Describe What I could notice in this slice of the lesson is that all the students paid attention to me; moreover, the teacher told me that the students really loved me because they helped me in everything I needed and in the activities they were quiet and focused on what I was doing. During the grammar explanation they were very quiet and when I asked them for doubts they did not ask me anything because they said that they did not want to affect my grade in the practice. THAT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL! So, they did not ask me anything. On the other hand, the teacher was attentive to see what I was doing and he used to write a lot in the page of the evaluation giving me some pieces of advice and writing every detail about the class. The seating arrangement was in lines because the classroom was small and there were like twenty-one students. In my second class I had to make a short lesson plan where I include an objective, a warm-up, a presentation, grammar explanation, and the controlled practice.  The topic was about the second conditional. The materials I used were the board, sheet of paper, charts, and the book.
(Analyze)		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
As I started with the warm-up, I think that it help me to wake the students up. On the other hand, in the warm-up I decided to practice the first conditional to practice it, and then start teaching them the second conditional. I can say that when we teach the grammar explanation about a determinate topic, we have to take into consideration to teach in the most common and simple way for not to confuse the students. Moreover, it is important to involve the students in the grammar explanation to make them feel free to ask and tell their opinions. I think that after the grammar explanation, it is necessary to include some practices to know if they have understood the topic or not. I think that it is the way to discover if the grammar explanation was accurately.	Based on what I already know about warm-ups, I think that they let you know your students and wake them up. Moreover, everyone can have fun in the in there. Based on what I observed, I think that students need to get more involved in the grammar explanation where they can give their point of view.  On the other hand, it is important that they ask questions when they have doubts. I believe that difficult practices can hinder the students at the moment to put into practice what they have learned in the grammar explanation because they can get confused and they will make mistakes.	So, in the future, I will take into consideration to develop a warm up every single class because it helps a lot before starting a class, and they can learn something new in there. In future lessons I will try to implement a very good grammar explanation in which the students can understand better the topic. The next time I teach this lesson, I will be sure to start from the easiest way which will be the controlled practice. After that I will include the difficult ones which will be the semi-controlled, and the free practice. It will let the students to learn and put into practice what they have learned in the grammar explanation.