Subject: Teaching Practicum II
Teacher: Ovidio Torres
Practitioner: Velkis Rosales
Level: Intermediate English
Tutor: Salvador Buendia
THIRD REACTION PAPER
(Third Period)
Describe
I do not know how to start
expressing my feelings about my last class not only of this period but also
of my major. It was a pleasure for me to transmit my knowledge to others;
moreover, it helped me to improve many things about teaching which will help
me in the future. In my last class I was both happy and sad because it was
going to be my last class. At the very beginning of the class I was kind of
nervous, but then I could manage the class correctly. I felt comfortable and I
was very enthusiastic because I wanted to have a funny class. The students
really helped me to develop the activities and they were very kind with me.
On the other hand, I could achieve my principal purpose which was about writing
sentences by using the passive voice. First, I started with a short warm up,
then a review of the structure of the passive voice, consequently the
controlled practice and finally the semi-controlled practice. The material I
used were the board, sheet of paper, pages and a chart.
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As every class, I started explaining the objective
and the agenda of the day. Consequently, I developed a short warm-up which
was called “sharks are coming” The ones who did not have the right number of
people in the group would have a penalty which was some questions they had to
answer according to the topic.
Consequently, I started with a short review of the
structure of the topic (passive voice) I gave them a page with some examples
and I explained them the way to change the sentences from active to passive
voice.
After that, I started with the controlled activity
which was about filling in the blanks using the verbs into the passive voice.
This activity took me more time because the students had some problems with
some verbs.
Finally, I developed the semi-controlled practice
which was called back to back conversation. The students had to sit down back
to back, then the teacher gave them a sheet of paper with a conversation and
they had to do was to complete the conversation by dictating to his/her
classmate what they conversation said.
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What I could notice is that students were good at
answering using the principal topic. They gave their own point of view and
they had very good ideas. Moreover, they had fun each other.
In the review, I could notice that the passive voice
is a really difficult topic because they asked many questions and some of
them told me that they did not understand the way to write into the passive
voice; however, in the practice they did it very well.
In this activity, I could notice that students had
problems when using the verbs into the correct form, but for that it is
important to learn the verbs into the correct form.
I could notice that students had fun in this
activity because they had problems writing some words but they laugh a lot
because of that. Finally, they did it very well.
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In future lessons, I will take into consideration to
develop a warm up where students can learn something new and have fun at the
same time because it is really important to have fun and practice at the same
time.
I am thinking about looking for some strategies for
explaining the topic in an easier way and then the students will get the idea
of the topic.
In future lessons, I will take into consideration implementing
activities where students practice the topic a lot in order to answer every
doubt they can have about the topic.
The next time I teach this lesson, I will be really sure
to include activities like this one because in that way students had fun and
improve a lot their listening, reading, speaking, and writing.
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