Group 2 - (Lesson 2)

Thinking on the objective, considering  appropiated activities, preparing proper material are some important details which teachers take into account when planning a lesson, specially when teaching English to children.

This class was developed by my team which is copunded by Yaneth Argueta, Gloria Gonzalez, Jacqueline Martinez, Nancy Membreño and me, Brenda Ayala. We worked on PPP Planning Framework and the topic taught was “There is- There are, using classroom objects vocabulary". I consider my teammates and I were confident at the time to teach the lesson. During a week we were preparing our lesson plan, we worked on the materials, as well we worked on the activitities which were according to each of the stages from the corresponding Planning Framework.

To start the class, we encouraged children to sing the “Hello-Hello” song. We asked them to make a circle in order to create a more interactive enviromnent. We were part of the circle, we mixed into the students this with the objective that children got confidence and they perceived better the mimics we did according to the song.

Besides, Yaneth Argueta was encharged of the Warm up stage. To carry out this activity we made use of a “hoop”; students had to make a line and they had to take their hands and pass the hoop throught the line with out breaking it. By the time teacher Yaneth said “stop” , she showed to the students who got the hoop a flash card with vocabulary from the last class. I could notice that children really enjoyed this game. Then,the Presentation stage was developed  by Gloria Gonzalez. She explained the topic “There is- There are” by using flashcards with an image of some classroom objects and the name of the objects in order students knew how to spell them. To be honest, I thought this topic would be difficult for children to encounter, however, they got the idea of “There is- There are” structure.

After the presentation it was time to encouraged children to practice. Nancy Membreño was encharged of this stage. She presented two different activities in order children practice forming questions and sentence using the structure and vocabulary taugh in the presentation stage. Both activities were very interactive and interesting for children because they made use of different material such as flashcards and they had to ordered a sentence an then they had to pasted it on the wall. For the second activity they used a chart and an image posted on the wall.

 

Then came the part of the production, I developed this stage. I gave children one flash card with the image about  classroom objects. They had to showed their flashcard to three different classmates in order each student wrote three different sentences using the structure studied in class. To accomplish this task, I asked them to sit on the floor in order to make them feel relaxed. I monitored them while they were writing. When they had finished the three sentences. I asked them to pass in front of the class and read one of the sentences they had written.

As a Wrap-up Jacqueline explained the “Hot- Potato” game to children in order to check what students had learned during the lesson. Finally, to close the class we sang the “See you later song”. I was excited because they already knew the song. That was great!

After finished our lesson, we received positive and constructive comments from our classmates and Teacher Ponce, as well as suggestions in order to improve future classes. Since we are not very experimented teachers yet; we skipt some details like the spelling in a flashcard used in the presentation stage, the order of some of the charts used in the Practice stage. Personally, at the end of the Production stage, I forgot to ask for the material to students and I interrupt a couple of minutes while Teacher Jaqueline was developing her corresponding stage. I also aware that we had problems in relation to time management and we had to improvise in some areas like emphasizing the pronounciation of the vocabulary. However, all those positive and constructive comments we received will help us to care of some specific details and throught practice we will gain experience to be good English teachers.