Eighth class

Teachers: Raul, Juan JoséTopic: ActionsVocabulary: Swim, run, jump, fly, climb, eat, drink, drive.Grammar: I can/can’t , she can/can’t, he can /can’t , it can/can’tReview: Animals, family members, alphabet.

 

They introduce the class with the hello song, with some variations on it, he changed his tone voice from slowly to faster to play with them. Also, to review of previous class he used name tag activity. He put folded papers with students’ name in front and one picture of family members, vocabulary, clothes or pets inside, he asked each student to pass in front and look for his or her name, then they had to say what it was, during the activity I noticed all students were able to answered the questions that teacher Raul asked and the purpose of this activity was made students remember part of the vocabulary already studied, at the end they counts and told me how many flashcards there were. 

 

 Raul was in charge of the presentation. He uses a flipchart to present the target vocabulary. He presented the first action and for the next one he asked about the previous one and so on until the last one. Here students activated their schema about the topic and they make the connection with words that are in Spanish, also hey started to think about the previous action. Therefore, students had a competition in which they answer a questions that the teacher Raul did with the flashcards, he divided students into two groups and they asked to form two lines and they started the competition in order to win a piece of ribbon. Also teacher Raul used in a good way the classroom arrangement and I consider that it is an important part to plan for every class and for every activities that teacher do.

Another part of the presentation was when students practice a hula hoops activity with some traffic lights in order to practice the actions verbs. Here students practiced the target vocabulary in groups and I guess I perceived that in this participation teacher Raul planted the activity with the TPR approaches that was crucial for the lesson because all was related to actions verbs so for that reason teacher Raul did a lot of movements.

 

Teacher Juan was in charge of the practice. Students were very active because of the previous activities. Teacher Juan also played with the classroom arrangement. Students were in a circle, he uses some flashcards and they practice the actions with different movements. I guess students liked it. The activity not only students mentioned the actions but also they did the actions. I consider that TPR approach helps students to acquire the target vocabulary because they can associate the name of the actions with the movement. Then, teacher Juan introduce the grammar part that was can and cannot. Teacher Juan put a poster on the wall with the phrase CAN and CAN’T, he motivate students do some action movement. When they were practicing ¨ can ¨ they did a movement very well and with ¨ can’t ¨ they did well and students understood when they had to use ¨can and can’t¨.



Teacher Juan continued practicing, he used a song in order to motive students to dance and make some movements and when he stopped the song who had the hat had to take a flashcard and said what it was on the flashcard, I consider that teacher Juan did a good job in this part because students enjoyed activities that had physical movements. Also the last  activity, teacher Juan introduced a song with action movements, so he was singing while students were doing the actions that the song has, when they were singing I noticed they wouldn’t stop singing and doing actions movements, but the class had to stop, and he in line carried them out and said bye-bye.

My case of study.

My case of study really enjoy the class because she learn some actions that she did not know how to say it in English and her mother told me that she practice the actions on her house with her others brothers, she was the teacher of her house, when she say that I was so prove about the job of all my classmates did on her classes.