Journal 3

Journal 3

During this week, I did not have the full chance of teaching students from the English language teaching education program since there was an academic-administrative event in which some of the professors involved in the high quality accreditation process must attended. Therefore, two of the professors who are my cooperators did not have class sessions. Thus, I ended up teaching only one lesson in the Pre-intermediate English course whom professor was not part of that event.

I designed a lesson plan focused on some recommendations the professor gave me about comparatives and superlatives. In the first part of the class, I had prepared already a game with power point called “Who/What would you rather?” Students showed excitement when playing this game because the questions in there seemed to be catching or interesting for them. In this way, I liked the way they participated and I tried to emphasize the fact of using comparatives and superlatives in the fact of choosing an answer for the questions in the game. For example, “What would you rather… to be alive and unknown or to be famous after you die?” The expected answer would be “I prefer to be famous when I die because I think it’s more interesting when people remember you by the things you did while you were alive…”

In the next part, I wanted to focus on the student book because there students could find a specific exercise about superlatives since the previous one focused more on comparatives. Therefore, students gave their answers in a couple-discussion exercise. I walked around the classroom in order to listen to some of their answers and I could notice that they feel that the professor is more interested in their learning process if he or she talks to them and tries to be more in touch with them, closer, and more understandable. That is what I try always to do in my classes.

At the end of the class, I brought a writing exercise in which they must complete a short story without the ending part. I instructed them to do it in the same groups that they already were in. At the end, I wanted to see how creative they could be when imagining a crazy ending for a story.  I gave them some genres such as comedy, love, horror, etc.

I liked the class a lot since they were participative, enjoying the activities, and willing to participate. I would maybe change the way I explained the “would you rather game” and ask them to use comparatives when answering the WHY they chose either answer.