FIRST CLASS – Friday, February 20^th, 2015

            This class has been my first experience as a practitioner of the English major; to be the first class, everything was better than I expected. At the very beginning, I was so nervous because the section where I had to teach was basic level, and I knew that work with beginners will be a little difficult because they do not know the language, so it demands a special treatment as body language, gestures, speak slowly and use vocabulary according to their levels, but after a period of around ten minutes, the environment started giving me the chance to feel free and develop my class without any problem. To be honest, I expected less of those students for their level; however, they surprised me, for they liked to participate and speak in English, and it made my class easier.

            I had some problems with the warm- up activity because they did not understand well the activity, and I could not use Spanish; therefore, I had to change some details in the activity, and it worked because they understood it. Another problem that my partner and I had was teacher did not gave us the lesson plan, so we worked by our own; however, we did it well because we got good grades. Thanks God, I finish in the right time.  I started the class exactly at 3:50 and finished it at 4:40

To sum up, it was difficult to organize the activities according to students’ needs because they were in a Basic English level, so the students are starting the process as ESL students, but even though they are native students, the majority of them already know basic vocabulary to use it when expressing orally.