Such a great experience and opportunity, the fact of being teaching to the Basic English group with teacher Karina Carranza. Definitely , as long as you teach the same group day after day, you form a connection with them, and will give your best in order to make them understand what you want to teach.

For me, the last day of class with them was really rewarding.  In first place, for the warm up activity I decided to play de famous hot potato game, but in a different way. My version was to fold eight different sheets of paper as in a ball shape, one over the other until you have a medium size ball. The purpose of the game is that while you play some music, the Ss are passing my version "the onion ball",  and when the music stops, the ss with the ball in his/her hand has to unwrap the ball and perform the task required. This game can be used with many different topics, but this time I implemented topics seen by them in previous classes, such giving sentences in present tense, or a question using Do or Does, a profession, or a family member. I`m really convinced that the use of music in the classroom, will cheer up the Ss willingness towards the class development. And that wasn`t the exception in mine, because they had fun, they helped each other when constructing the different sentences, and enjoyed the music as well.

For the main topic I decided to include a song for them to practice not only the listening skill, but also to have fun and sing along with me!! My topic was the Simple present in the three forms : Affirmative, Negative and Interrogative. And I though why don´t include a song using the simple present tense. For that activity I chose the song JUST THE WAY YOU ARE by Bruno Mars, it is a nice song, easy to understand even for basic`s SS`, and very catchy with the nice rhythm it has.

They are a really nice group, very collaborative and eager to learn every single thing you bring for them. I gave them a copy of the lyric with some missing words, and asked them to fill in the blank according with the development of the song. As in every single group of Ss`, there were some that caught the meaning of many words since the first time I played it. For some others, it was a really hard time to figure out which word was missing. After the second time I played it, we started all together to answer the missing words and all of them were able to share the answers, at the end every single ss got the complete lyric and was the right time to Sing all together…we really enjoyed it!!!

The last activity I performed was a participative one,  I pasted 10 flashcards on the board with images of activities in simple present. I also brought 10 sentence strips in relation with every single flashcard. I really enjoy asking the Ss to participate as much as possible in the activities, and this wasn`t the exception, I asked their help and one by one had to stand up and come to the front, choose a strip, and paste it next to the corresponding flashcard. That part was a piece of cake for them, the second round was to write the negative form of every single sentence, and the third round was to write the interrogative form. As long as the practice was growing, the mistakes were appearing, but also the self correction from them was present too. At the end, they reinforced the previous knowledge  they had and reinforced the use of the auxiliaries…really nice!!!

Unfortunately, time is our worst enemy and when I realized it was time to go home, I couldn´t finish my lesson plan, but I felt really satisfied because I know that they will remember the information when taking their exam, and finishing the lesson plan is not at the end, the main goal of teaching.  Instead of that,  is the fact of transmitting the knowledge.

Good luck for the Second period my dear friends!!!