UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE EL SALVADOR

Subject: Teaching Practicum II

Teacher: Ovidio Torres

Practitioner: Velkis Rosales

Level: English Access

Tutor: Wilson Zepeda

FIRST REACTION PAPER
(First Period)

Describe What I could notice in this slice of the lesson is that working in English Access is a new challenge for me because of the way they speak and the level of English they have. Students liked to participate in classes as well as asking many questions at the same time. The teacher sat down in a desk and he observed every detail of my class. I felt very comfortable in my first teaching practicum of this semester because of the environment in the classroom. The materials I used were the board, sheet of papers, charts, pictures and a teddy bear.
(Analyze)		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
I started with a short warm up giving clear and short directions. As I wanted to know the students, the warm up consisted in passing a teddy bear. They had to take the teddy bear and presented themselves. Then, I started with the Grammar explanation about Adjective + to-infinitive. The students used to ask many questions and they participate a lot. After the grammar explanation, I started with the controlled practice which was about fill in the blanks. The activity was pretty easy for the students. Including some pictures really help to develop a class. So, in my first practice I included some pictures where the students had to write some sentences bellow each picture using the infinitive form.	Based on what I already know about the warm-ups about working with a new class, it is very important to motivate them and give them the opportunity to express themselves. Based on what I observed, I think that asking questions during the grammar explanation can help the students to understand better a topic. I believe that asking a lot during the grammar explanation help at the moment to develop the practice. And in this case, as the students were focus in the grammar explanation and they asked many questions, the practice was very easy for them. I believe that make the students expressing their point of view really help because it is a way to know if they have learned the way to write sentences applying what they learned during the grammar explanation.	So, in the future, I will continue developing these kind of warm-ups for motivating the students, and also I will find new ways and techniques for not to have a routine of motivation because then they will get bored of the same. In future lessons I will look for more methods to teach the grammar explanation in an easy and funny way to keep the students focus in the explanation. The next time I teach this lesson, I will be sure to include more activities where the students can practice what they have learned in the grammar explanation. In future experiences I will also include more practice to be sure that the topic has been understandable and to have the students busy the complete class.