Journal 5

Journal 5

During this week of classes, I had the opportunity to teach most of my lessons. I taught the lessons I had planned for my dear students in the courses of Basic English ll and Pre-Intermediate English. On one hand, on Tuesday, I taught the Basic English course from Professor John Jairo. It was a good lesson, my activities were easy to follow and fun to solve. They spoke English, discussed some topics, and practiced the present perfect tense. Nevertheless, I would change my prominent nervous attitude in the class. I do not know what it is about it happens unintentionally. Aside from that, I felt good in the class because Students are always willing to participate and work in order to improve their language proficiency.

On the other hand, I did not have classes on Wednesday due to some activities in Agoras. There was academic permission from administrators and coordinators. However, some students from Basic English ll were willing to have the lesson with me. I was glad I had the chance to teach them. I planned the same activities for the other Basic English ll group. They wanted to stay in the class so that made me comfortable with them. I like to be spontaneous and easy going so I always try to make a conversation with them. Therefore, we talked about different things regarding the present simple. Maybe I would change the way of concluding the topics since I perceive that they get bored and tired easily at the end of the class.

I felt good during this week because I had tutoring sessions too. The tutoring session was on Wednesday from 8 to 10 in the morning. We did some fun activities regarding listening and verbal tenses. Somehow, I felt less nervous than in the classes with the cooperators because I felt the control over the students was mine and they were there because they wanted to. Many students from Professor John Jairo’s group were there and only two students from professor Jairo’s group were there. I always try to make questions and ask them to speak. I would change the way I end classes since I feel it is weak in terms of concluding the topic.