Thursday.19.2012.
Finally, my last class of the period. I have to say that with practices I have gained a lot of experience and I learnt a lot about basic students. When I started to work with this group I treat them as I used to do it with intermediate students but imediatly I noticed that they are quite different. Since they are begginers I need more patience to work with them because they are slower and for some of them is very hard to understand everything. Another thing that I learnt was that with them I have to be all the time checking if they are speaking english because they LOVE to speak spanish.


When I started the class I was afraid that the warm up I had was not good. I had a teddy bear and they had to invent a story about it. At the beggining the students didnt want to talk and were making faces  :-s :-(.I started wondering and thinking: Oh!! I shouldnt bring this activity!!! but later they started to participate and talk more. At the end everybody was laughing and talking about it which was great because they were practicing english.
Teacher told me that she liked it a lot because those activities pushed them to speak, which is great.


I continued with the rest of the activities and everything went so natural and I finally get over nervous. At the beggining I was nervous because someone else was there observing me (Xavier hahaha) but than I tried to relax and ignore that the tutor and my classmate were there and I just develop the class. I really liked this experience it is more difficult to teach basic students for me because I needeed to be really patience and to repeat a lot of things but I liked it and enjoyed it I felt by the first time like a real teacher :-). Let`s expect next period will be as good as this one or better. Good luck and best wishes for everybody.