UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE EL SALVADOR

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.
(Analyze)		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
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.	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.	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.