Journal 4

Journal 4 

In this 4^th week of the practicum process, I did not have the full chance to implement my classes since the administrative-academic event of the high-quality accreditation process was still going on, some professors did not have classes. However, I did teach a lesson with Basic English ll. 

In the first part of the class, I planned to ask some questions in order to foster communication. They had to discuss whether they consider themselves as pessimist or optimist people.

For the second activity, I planned some activities regarding the use of WILL for simple future in regards to predictions. I started my class with a video in which students were asked to predict the result of certain actions by showing their thumbs up or down saying it will be epic or fail, but most important using the WILL. For example, “He will crash” “She will fall off the bike” However, in the process of asking them to answer what they thought would happen, they did not answer in the way I wanted, which was using WILL. Therefore, I would change the way I addressed the answers when student are asked to do so. Then, they had to be in groups where they would discuss some statements I gave them. That was interesting because I had the opportunity to hear some of their possible answers to those situations.

Finally, in the last part of the session, I ask them to write the most pessimistic answer to a certain situation in a piece of paper. Then, I would find out the most pessimistic person in the classroom. That last activity was somewhat confusing at the point of finding the most pessimistic answer in the classroom since students did not have any idea how to do it. I would explain differently next time I teach the same lesson.

By the way, as an extra activity for my practicum experience at Universidad Surcolombiana, I had the opportunity of leading a speaking test for students from the Pre-Intermediate course since the professor allowed me to do so. That was interesting since I had the opportunity to experience a real speaking test from the professor’s perception. I tried the “trial and error approach” by implementing different ways of addressing the speaking part of the exam and it was interesting since students felt more confident when you only have the topics and not the rubric grading them that seems to e terrifying. That was a meaningful experience for me. By the way, the image represents how I felt during the week!