Classes by groups 1 & 2

 

Hello everyone! I am very excited to tell you that last week we officially started our English classes. We have 18 students who will be joining us from last Thursday until the second week of November, in this course they will learn vocabulary and grammar through activities that each group has prepared for them.

Group 1💜

Diana's group had the opportunity to be the first to teach, they taught the alphabet, how to introduce themselves, and some greetings.

In the Warm up they did a chain activity in which the students had to introduce themselves and say the name of their classmate who spoke before, for example: hello my name is Elizabeth, then the next person introduces me and then says his/her name and so on until the last person who has to remember everyone's name.

Something that I really liked was that during the presentation of the lesson all the teachers participated and explained a part of it, some explained the sounds of the alphabet and others the greetings, but they all participated.

other activities they did were: choosing a letter of the alphabet and saying a word with that, as well as completing sentences from a dialogue. 

Congratulations girls, you did a great job!

Group 2

My awesome team! 💓 

Before talking about our experience teaching this class I want to thank my team for all their dedication and effort in preparing this lesson and for encouraging me to develop it.

If I had to choose between interpreting, translating or teaching, without any doubt I would choose teaching, this is something that I am passionate about and that I have had the opportunity to do this for a year now by teaching children in a school and now I have enjoyed it even more by having the experience of teaching together with my friends. 

 

As a warm up activity Adriana led an activity in which she divided the whiteboard in three parts and the students had to put the words in the correct category (subject pronoun, verb to be or complement).

 

Then it was my turn to develop the topic " Verb to be in an affirmative form" (I confess I was pretty nervous at first but as I spoke I felt much better confident).

These are some of the important things I taught during the class: 

1. Definition: The verb to be means to exist (I am here), to occur (The meeting is Tuesday), or to have the characteristics of something (She is a quiet child). It is the most common verb in English.

2. Structure of the verb to be in affirmative form: Subject + verb to be + complement

2. What is a Subject pronoun:  It is a word used as the subject of a verb, which means that it's the person or thing performing the action.

4. Examples:

 

 

Singular pronouns                                                          Verb to be

I                                                                                               Am

He                                                                                            Is

She                                                                                          Is

It                                                                                              Is

 

Plural pronouns:

You                                                                                         Are

We                                                                                          Are

They                                                                                       Are

 

I am Elizabeth (We use the verb to be to talk about names) 

You are 31 years old (Verb to be to talk about age)

He is an actor (Verb to be to talk about professions)

She is a doctor (Verb to be to talk about professions)

It is a dog (Verb to be to talk about things or animals)

We are happy (Verb to be to talk about feelings)

You are sad ( Verb to be to talk about feelings )

               They are angry ( Verb to be to talk about feelings ) 

During the practice time, Carla led two activities:

1- Matching activity, a controlled practice, in which we gave the students sheets to match the letter with the correct word.

2- The hot potato game, a free activity in which students had to pass the ball and when the music stopped the person holding the ball had to create a sentence with these four words I, They, Are, Is.

As a production activity Gustavo did an activity in which in pairs the students had to create a conversation using the structures of the verb to be in its affirmative form. With this activity we realized that many students have a very good command of English as some of them created quite complex conversations using structures that we had not yet taught.

And finally Adriana did a wrap up activity called the mystery bag:

This game was similar to the hot potato game, inside the bag there were papers in different colors. Each color represents a different question related to the lesson:

- Name two things you have learned today.

- Create two sentences using the correct sentence structure.

- List the three "to be" verbs in the affirmative form.

- List the singular pronouns.

I hope you enjoyed each activity and I'll see you in the next post! 😊