My last teaching in Advanced II !

This class was the best experience as a teacher that I never had before, because at this time, everything was so different, my development as a teacher improved so much, I never thought that I  had obtained a very successful class!!!

At the beginning, I began the class by developing a warm up activity that I invented it by my myself, I asked them to make two groups, then I gave a marker to the representative of each group, the activity consisted that everyone of each group had to pass to the front the board and write a noun, one group had to write countable nouns and the other one had to write uncountable nouns. They had 3 minutes to do it and the group with more answers was going to be the winner, in this activity they had fun a lot and at the same time I could observe how much they remembered about the topic.

To continue, I asked the students to listen 4 stories about  4 superstitious persons, after listening, I asked them some questions, for example if they believed that these 4 people were superstitious or not, we continued to discuss  about the 4 stories, some of the students were superstitious and others gave their personal opinions. So, I guess that this part of the class was so interesting because I was interacting with the students, I would like to give them more classes. 

After presenting the topic, I continued with the grammar, I thought that this part It was going to be one of the most  difficult parts of the class, but fortunately  the results were so productive. Because I remembered what the teacher Christian told us before, he said that we can use many strategies to explain grammar and not only the traditional way, so I tried to use attractive charts in order to get their attention, also, I explained the grammar by using a lot of examples in order to help them to understand better and make the things easier than the complicated explanation that make our students get bored. I explained only three rules that I considered were enough in one class, the topic was "Non-countable nouns made countable"; in addition, I used 2 little charts that contained examples of some phrases that could use with this topic, also I used two or three examples of how they could use for each phrase. Then, I did CCQ I asked them to give me other examples and they did it. I was impressed because they payed attention during all the time. Later on, I gave them a worksheet that contained some nouns, so they had to classify if the nouns could be countable or non-countable nouns, then they had to write sentences using the nouns by providing examples of countable nouns and non-countable nouns made countable.

Later, I asked them to go to their book and work in one exercise in which they had to read a paragraph and look for non-countable nouns that could make countable, I gave them 6 minutes to do it. Then, I asked some of them to give me the words that they found, but my surprise it was that many of them wanted to participate in the activity. At the end, I gave them a worksheet as homework assignment in order to they could practice at home.

What I liked, it was that the students were paying attention all the time and  they participated a lot and expressed their opinions in the discussion, also one of my favorite parts, it was the grammar explanation because it was not boring, students were attentive  and when I did CCQ I noticed that they understood the explanation. The teacher told me that the use of attractive charts called students´attention, also the use of a lot of examples helped them to understand easier, and personality I think that the use of examples helped me a lot, more than if I had explained to them the grammar in the traditional way, because they could observed how they could transform the non-countable nouns in countable.

This time, I improved a lot in my teaching practice, I consider that the developing of all the activities was successful and much better that I thought it would be, also I didn´t get nervous so I interacted with the students as never I did before. The students understood the topic and were participating in all the activities, I guess they liked the class too. So I  hope to continue improving my teaching that it´s my purpose, being a teacher and have a successful class, definitely, it´s a great experience!