The recorded class

Today was my last day in the practice. I had to record this class because I didn't in the previous classes. I arrived early to the classroom. The teacher was already there. I arranged the desks in a semicircle. Something I learned (by experience) in this subject is that we must be early and get things ready if we want everything to be OK. I prepared some masking tape for a chart I was going to paste. Also, I was thinking in a way of recording my class because I didn't have any person to do it for me; I just put the camera on the window and it had an incredible angle of vision to record a big part of the classroom. I started my class with a nice warm up that came to my mind last night; I made them play volleyball with a balloon; they made two teams and each team had the opportunity to throw the balloon to the other side of the "field" saying a verb in its base form. The other team had to tell that verb but in the participle form before hitting the balloon to the opposite side. Each team had the opportunity to tell ten different verbs, and then they switched turns. It was an activity that they enjoyed a lot.

After that, I started the class with a reading activity. They had to read, identify, and convert all the sentences in past perfect they found into Wh-questions. It was a simple activity, but they did it easily because they had gotten the topic in the previous class. Later on, I explained the second part of the grammar notes; it was about of modals of deduction, and when I was explaining that, I remembered the camera recording my acts and I suddenly got nervous. I started to explained the things in a different way... I corrected myself and ordered my thoughts as fast as I could and then continued with the practice I had prepared. I gave them some copies and they solve the exercise quickly. They had gotten the idea.

My time run out, but I finished with everything I had prepared. I checked the camera and it had just recorded around 30 or 35 minutes because the memory wasn't enough. Anyway, most of the class was recorded and I will see my mistakes jejejeje.

Listening and reading practice

This class was a little bit different because I had to prepare a listening practice. The teacher sent me the lesson plan where the link for the listening was, and it didn't work. I was worried because I was preparing my lesson plan at night. I googled for a listening practice and lucky me! I found the same listening I was supposed to use. The problem was that it was not a downloadable audio script, so I decided to take a laptop and some speakers to the class. The reading was easy since it was included in the lesson plan. I only had to prepare a warm up activity and a role play activity for the end of the class.
I started the class with a warm up. I decided to paste some word strips on the board; I made the students form two teams and stand in lines in front of the board. I started reading a short paragraph and they had to pick the words from the board when I mentioned them. I included some distractors, so at the end they pick them up, but they were no valid points (jejejejeje it was funny). My tutor liked the activity because it was a kind of listening practice but in a funnier way. Then I started with the real listening practice. This time I arrive very early to the classroom, so I had enough time to prepare everything. When the time for the listening practice arrived, the laptop, the speakers and the webpage were ready. I made them listen to the audio script for the first time; then I gave some questions to them and played the audio script again. The activity resulted easy to them. My tutor told me that it was OK because it was a short audio script, so it was a nice idea to play it once only. After that I gave them the reading practice, it was about passive voice, and was kind of long. They had to read the story and then they had to transform the passive sentences they found into active sentences. Some of them got confused, but we solve the task as a group; we didn't finish, so it converted into a homework. For the last practice I prepared a part of a dialogue; I pasted it on the board; then the students had to work in pairs and had to invent an ending for the dialogue. The activity was nice but at the end they all didn't had the opportunity to pass to the front and perform it. Two or three pairs passed to the front and they did it very well.
My feedback session was nice this time. The teacher did it the way it is.

Grammar notes

In this opportunity i taught the grammar part of the lesson plan. The topic was Passive voice, and I have to admit that I was worried about it because I had never taught that before. The lesson plan the teacher gave me was horrible. The teacher had made a lot of corrections on it, so he suggested me to present a different warm up, a different presentation, and a part of the grammar notes. Yesterday at night I prepared my own lesson plan. I found a cool activity as a transition between the warm up and the grammar part.
Today, I started my class with a nice warm up; students made two groups and two lines in front of the board; I called out a verb in its base form and they had to write it down in its participle form, so it was a nice activity to review the past participle form of the verbs. After that, I threw the keys on the floor and asked the students to write a sentence about what they had just seen. As I expected almost all of them wrote: "The teacher threw the keys on the floor"; then I asked them to write a sentence about the same action, but this time they had to start with "The keys...". Surprisingly almost all of them wrote: "The keys were thrown on the floor by the teacher". They did it using intuition because they had never studied passive voice. The teacher liked that way of introducing the topic. After that I felt free to teach the grammar notes. The students got the idea very fast; I gave them some practice and almost all of them were able to transform active sentences into passive ones.
I feel that I made almost everything OK, but... (here comes the "but part") the teacher told me that the passive form of "I will be the drinks" is not OK because it is not used frequently in spoken English. My face was with an expression of "Whatta f..." I was teaching grammar, not "useful expressions used in English". Grammatically the sentence "The drinks will be brought by me" is OK and it emphasizes the action that will be performed, but according to the teacher I shouldn't have taught that.
Whatever... I've got a 8.5 as a grade which sucks because I think this was the better class I have taught in this subject. Even the students liked it and I got a 100% of classroom management. Anyway...