Third Class-First Period

Beginning with my third class, I started with a warm up, for this activity I pasted two color papers on the board which contained a list of verbs, then I asked the students to run to the board and check the verbs, then they had to create sentences using "had better". To continue with the topic I showed them a chart with some examples of sentences using "had better and had better not" in order to help them to understand better. Then, I used other chart in which they had to paste to the front and paste some pieces of paper with "had better or had better not", so I gave them the papers and after they passed to the front I checked the answers; almost all the answers were right, but there were two that were incorrect, so I asked them if the sentences were correct, and they said that the last two were incorrect, what meant that they understood the topic very well. By doing this kind of activity, I could check or made CCQ in order to see if they already use "had better or had better not". Then, I asked the students to work in a worksheet in which they had to choose the verbs in the box and fill in the blanks according to the sentences, I gave them 5 minutes to do it and meanwhile they were working, I was monitoring their work. After the activity, I asked some of them to check the answers and if they had other options to formulate the sentences. Later, I asked the to make groups of four, then I gave to each group a piece of paper which contained some sentences using "should", so they had to change "should" for "had better or had better not", I gave them some minutes to do it, then, I asked some of them to pass to the front and write the sentences on the board. Finally, I asked them to work in pairs and create a short conversation giving advices using "had better and had better not", I gave them 5 minutes to do it and then I asked some pairs to pass to the front and performance the conversation.

In the feedback , the teacher told me that he liked the activities that I developed and how the students participated in all the activities, however, he gave me some advices about the warm up activity and the semi practice activity; in the warm up, he told me that it could be better if I pasted the color papers outside the classroom in order to motivate to  the students to have more energy and about the semi activity, he told me that I spent much time in this activity and that affected the time for my last activity because I had to run in the free practice, I didn´t provide the necessary time to the students could develop the activity. Even though, he told me that almost everything was great.

What I liked about this class was the activities that I used to help my students to develop their skills because they are in intermediate level, so they need to practice as much as possible.