THE FREEZE GAME

Purpose: to review the past continuous ie. "They were playing basketball".

Preparation: Either have cards with action words ready, or use your text book to point to the actions they have studied in their book.

Method:
1) Divide the class into two teams.
2) Create a space where one team can sit in chairs together and the other team can stand up without tables in the way.
3) Have one team sit down and close their eyes, or face the wall.
4) Monitor that eye closed/no peeking rule, perhaps deduct points for peeking.
5) Show the other team an action verb like "playing basketball".
6) That team silently acts out the action until you say FREEZE.
7) When you say FREEZE every member of the team freezes their current action and holds it.
8) Team one can now open their eyes and see the frozen actors.
9) Each student from the seated team takes a guess at to what Team 2 was doing. "Was she playing tennis?" HINT: Guessing should be fairly swift, poor team one is patiently frozen, remember.
10) A successful guess gives them one point.
11) After all students guess once, point or no point, play proceeds to the next team.
12) Game ends at teacher's discretion.

TIPS: To get the game going at a good pace, use simple sentences like "She was eating". Once the kids are into it, increase the level of difficulty by adding objects (not physical objects, silly) to the sentences. ex. "She was eating spaghetti".

IT WAS A GAME THAT WE PLAYED, THE STUDENTS RESPOND WITH ENTHUSIASM, FOR THEY WERE EASIER TO REMEMBER THE STRUCTURE OF THE PAST CONTINUOUS AND WAS FUNNY BECAUSE THEY SPEAK AND WE WORKED GRAMMAR IN AN UNTRADITIONAL WAY.

ACTIVITY

WHAT WERE YOU DOING?
Betsy: I telephoned you yesterday afternoon but you _____ answer? Where _____ you?
Brian: I ____ in another room when you called. I _____ hear the phone _____ until it was too late.
Betsy: What _____ you ________ on?
Brian: I _______ ________ a report that I needed to _____ to a client. What ___ ___ ______ when you telephoned?
Betsy: I _____ _______ for Tom and couldn't _____ him. Do you know _____ he was?
Brian: Tom ____ ______ to a meeting.
Betsy: Oh, I see. What ____ you _____ ________ ?
Brian: I ____ the representatives from Driver's in the morning. In the afternoon, I _____ on the report and ___ just ______ when you telephoned. What did you do?
Betsy: Well, at 9 I had a ________ with Ms Anderson. After that, I did some research.
Brian: Sounds like a boring day!
Betsy: Yes, I _____ really like doing research. But it needs to be done.
Brian: I agree with you on that, no research - no business!
Betsy: Tell me about the report. What do you _____ of it?
Brian: I _____ the report is a good. Tom believes it's good, too.
Betsy: I know that every report you write is excellent.
Brian: Thank you Betsy, you are _____ a good friend!
Choose the correct answer or phrase to fill in the blank. Each question has only one correct answer.
What was Brian doing when Betsy telephoned?
• He was photocopying a report.
• He was having a coffee-break.
• He was at a meeting.
What was Betsy doing when she telephoned Brian?
• She was writing a report.
• She was looking for Tom.
• She was planning a meeting.
What did Brian do yesterday morning?
• He worked on the report.
• He drove to a meeting.
• He met representatives from Driver's.
When did Betsy have a meeting with Ms Anderson?
• this afternoon
• yesterday afternoon
• yesterday morning
Betsy thinks Brian does excellent work.
• true
• false
• doesn't say

THIS WAS AN EXERCISE OF LISTENING; THEY HAVE TO COMPLETE THE CONVERSATION AND THEN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS.

PARTICIPATION

MOST OF THE STUDENTS PARTICIPATE ALL THE TIME, BUT HE WAS THE MOST PARTICIPANT BECAUSE HE`S GOT BETTER KNOWLEDGE OF ENGLISH.

CHECKING HOMEWORK

HERE WE CAN SEE SOME STUDENTS WRITING THE ANSWERS OF THE HOMEWORK ON THE BOARD.

MY CLASS

THIS WERE MY GROUP, 3ª A THEY WERE A GOOD GROUP.

LESSON PLAN 24/09/09

LESS PLAN 22/09/09

LESSON PLAN 21/09/09

BEHAVIOR

Respectfulness - NO
Order - NO
Cleanness - NO
Collaboration - NO
Cooperation - NO

NO HOMEWORK

Today we did not have classes again, why? Because anybody made the lesson plan for our classes, and the teacher could not check our activities four the practices, this is the reason why we don have classes.

BEHAVIOR

Respectfulness - YES
Order - YES
Cleanness - YES
Collaboration - YES
Cooperation - YES

WORKING IN THE CLASSROOM

Today we began to make our lesson plans and the teacher resolves our doubts.

NO CLASS

Today we did no have class, because we went to our secondary for our topics.

BEHAVIOR

Respectfulness - NO
Order - NO
Cleanness - NO
Collaboration - NO
Cooperation - NO

BEHAVIOR

Respectfulness - NO
Order - NO
Cleanness - NO
Collaboration - NO
Cooperation - NO

NO CLASS

Today we did no have class, because we have a little party in the school to celebrate September 15th.

BEHAVIOR

Respectfulness - YES
Order - YES
Cleanness - YES
Collaboration - YES
Cooperation - YES

AN INTRODUCTION TO CLASSROOM MANAGEMENT

Task 1

A)A student says I do not want to do this exercise.
*Ask why he/she does not want to do the exercise.
*Ask if the instructions are clear.

B)You expected an activity to take five minutes. It has taken 20 so far and the students still seem to be very involved. There is something else you would like to do before the lesson ends in ten minutes.
*If my learners are interested in the topic I do not interrupt the activity, I must adapt the new activity with the previous.
*Begin my next class with the previous, because my students are motivated.

C)The next activity involves students working in groups of five. At the moment all the desks are facing forward in rows. They are movable, but it takes a few minutes of chaos to do it.
*Before to ask that our students make teams, we have to see the conditions of the classroom.
*If we are going to work in teams is better if we ask that our students move the chairs before we enter to the classroom.

D)The students are working in groups of three. Two groups have finished the task you set them and are now sitting looking bored. The other groups still seem to have a long way to go before they finish.
*We can star to review the task, and give 5 more minutes to the other team.
*If this situation happens frequently we can change the members of the teams.

A FEW LATE

Today we do not have classes because we arrive late to our classroom and the teacher said that we don have time to work, it was our fault, we have to said to our previous teacher that we have to take our next class.

BEHAVIOR

Respectfulness - YES
Order - YES
Cleanness - YES
Collaboration - YES
Cooperation - YES

BEHAVIOR

Respectfulness - YES
Order - YES
Cleanness - YES
Collaboration - YES
Cooperation - YES

ASKING PERMISSION

The Friday 4/09/09 we did not have classes, but we went to ask permission to our “Escuelas Secundarias” to make our practices. We wet to “Escuela Secundaria Luis Cabrera” and the principal accepts our petition.

BEHAVIOR

Respectfulness - YES
Order - YES
Cleanness - YES
Collaboration - YES
Cooperation - YES

BEHAVIOR

Respectfulness - YES
Order - YES
Cleanness - YES
Collaboration - YES
Cooperation - YES

WHAT KIND OF TEACHER AM I? (What I learn)

I consider that I am the teacher involver, because I try that may students participate in class, I try to do my classes interesting, because if I catch the attention of my learners the learning will be easy, in contrast If my class is bored the learning never comes, and I going to face with passive classes and the major enemy for the teachers the apathy.

KINDS OF TEACHERS (product)

Teacher Explainer

I remember that when I was in the high school the chemistry teacher always made her classes very interesting, she was an excellent teacher unfortunately she did not have enough methodologies to use a different kind of materials.

Teacher Involver

In the other hand my history teacher has the ability of involve us in the class, all the time we was paying attention in topic without necessity that the teacher call our attention. The class was by itself interesting. The way in which she explained her classes never were bored because she used to use a lot of materials in order to catch our attention.

Teacher Enabler

Few teacher are like this, I have worked with one of these, they make that the presses of learning will be easer because they all the time work in teams, with this kind of teacher we have to compare information, discuss and speak in front of the group, but the most important to this teachers is the environment because if we have a good atmosphere of work the presses of teaching-learning is easy.

BEHAVIOR

Respecfullness - YES
Order - YES
Cleanness - YES
Colaboration - YES
Cooperation - YES

SKILLS THAT I NEED TO THE NEXT PRACTICE

INTO THE CLASSROOM.
• Recognize individualities and treat each student as an equal.
• Use of theories and knowledge.
• Development of skills and values.

DURING THE CLASS.
• Organize and contextualize.
• Develop critical and analytical capacity.
• Use of the previous knowledge of students.
• Identify problems and resolve them.
• Mastery of strategies.

TEACHING SKILLS

Speaking – We have to develop this skill because is the way in which we espouse our classes; our spiking has to be fluently in order to give clear instructions.

Reading – Is so important because when we work with reading students imitate our pronunciation, and we have to identify quickly the main idea of the text.

Writing – As a teacher we need to be carful with our grammar, because the students only copy front the board, in the majority of cases they do not have the ability to correct our mistakes, and we are the model to follow.

Listening – I mention the listening but no as linguistic skill; we must hear the necessities, questions, doubts, opinions and all that our pupils want to express.

Motivation – Is the most important into the classroom, when a student feel motivate his learning is better and significant; he feels that he is a important part into the process of Teaching-Learning.