First teaching Class, III Period

Jose Daniel Medina Aguirre

Well by this time, I was feeling a little bit nervous but I do believe that it was because of the topic. It was reported speech and, I did not remember it too much since I studied that topic in the second year of our major.

My class started with my warm-up that was the activity “the broken telephone”. To develop this activity, first, I introduced myself and then I asked them to stand up and make two lines each in front of the board with a student in the beginning of the line holding a marker on hand, the one who will write the sentences. I just showed the sentences to both students at the back of the line and they had to pass it by whispering it on each students’ ear. They did it awesome, farther; they took over ten minutes to do this activity.

Afterwards, I passed to a practice in a handout that the teacher had provided them. I was going to check the exercise four by checking the right ones and correcting the mistakes as well as repeating the pronunciation.

Shortly after, the students had to listen to a conversation from a listening and they had to pronounce it by giving it rhythm and intonation. As it was a listening, they had to use their books and work alone.  After a short time, they should work in another exercise in the same handout but now in exercise five.

To finish my class, I did the final activity that was a speaking activity; it consisted in retelling a story that was in simple present tense.  I asked the students to form two groups and stand up while doing this. Regarding, I handed out two different stories one to each group and they had to change the tense from simple present to reported speech. As well, I set up 5 minutes for the students to read and learn the story. Shortly, I asked them to retell the story among themselves by using reported speech. For this activity, I asked them to select two representatives for each group who were going to retell me the story. I had been glad because of the students’ participation but in this activity was the exception. They did not tell me who were the two representatives and anybody accepted the role. However, I decided to select some of them to participate and I just select from two to three because of the time. Therefore, I ended my class up.