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...
As you say... anyway. Every teacher is different and we have to deal with those situations. We are not perfect, so we need to learn even from the negative experiences we have. Maybe next time. Good luck.
ResponderEliminarChulada let me laught at you!! hahahahahaha not because your job but because i told you with this teacher we don´t know when he is going to take as excelent something!!!! Now you can understand how disappointed i felt when teaching grammar i got a 7.3 :´( for me was the best thing I had done!!! however what i read from your comment is very interested i will use it but with children :) i have to teach the passive voice, too!!
ResponderEliminarCome on dont be cruel with you 8.5 is a really good grade chicken, I know that I am the one that always get 10 but I am sure next class you will get a 10 too jaja lloron jajaja like a chicken jajaj Nice class and congratulations Raul because the grammar part is one of the most difficult parts on a lesson plan GUACATELA jiji,,,, you did it great feel satisfied with your work .
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ResponderEliminarTake it easy! 8.5 is not a bad grade. I think you did a great work introducing the students to the new structure that way. You see? Students can surprise us when we think that they don't knwo or will not understand a new structure. I like the way you did it because you gave them the chance to think and put into prace their knowledge of the language.
Sandor, we were in the same conditions, i had to teach grammar too but i didnt feel the time since i like grammar. I just want you to know that i had such a great time with you in this major, i have endless momories about all of us doing crazy stuff together. Thanks for being my classmate and friend, all the time we spent doing homework, presentation, plays(the powerpuff girls tale jajajajjajja) has been priceless . I am going to miss you a lot, i wouldnt change all that i shared with my Uni classmates for anything. take care of mriss. Thanks for all, good luck God Bless you!! tqm
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