FIRST CLASS OBSERVATION

September 3^rd 2016

Level: Module 9-Reading

UNIT 3

Objective: Reading about the iceman and bride of Sahara

The following Saturday I will be attending reading class in module number nine with twenty students in this class. The first day I was nervous for the reason that I did know how students were going to react with our attendance (Karla Pineda and I) However it was amazing experience because the students were really polite, also we had the opportunity to introduce ourselves and students were opened for our help and the teacher as well she took into account to help her in the activities.

The reading class was started with an activity similar to “wordsearch” but in this case students had a bunch of letters on the board which were mixed it between capital letters and lowercases. First, teacher divided the class in two groups (girls and boys) she requested them to stand up and made two lines then teacher gave instructions about the activity. However students did not understand until they made the first practice, students was much excited that sometimes they were out of control besides this they might develop very well the activity. In this activity they practiced all their vocabulary for that reason I consider to take into account in the future nevertheless I will make some changes. For example; instead of requesting to stand up, students will be sitting down and they will choose a representative to pass in front of the board to participate, once one student participate he/she will choose another representative to participate.        

After that teacher presented the vocabulary using slides, she had a list of words (laborer, wealthy, frozen, imply, etc.) on the left side and the right side the meaning of that words. She requested students to match the word with the meaning; students were confused because they did not know the meaning of the some words, once they matched the words and meanings teacher made students to repeat the words for the pronunciation. This was a good idea to present the vocabulary never I consider changing the way to explain the meaning in simple words for the reason that some students did not understand some words very well after the activity.

The next activity teacher continued working with the same groups (boys and girls) but in this case teacher gave them papers with synonyms of the vocabulary which students have already learned, in order that they can related them. Nevertheless as I mentioned they did not understand some previous vocabulary for that reason they can not performance the activity perfectly. The activity also was good to increase the students’ vocabulary I will really use it in the future however I will be clarify doubts before to do it.

After the activity teacher told students to make an activity in the book which they had to match words with the meaning after they finished the activity students played the game called ‘hot potato’ with the aim of students shared their answers when teacher said stop. Consequently teacher gave instructions to write down a sentence using the vocabulary once they did it they wrote on the board and other students were checking mistakes.  This practice was very good because students showed how much they understood and how they can use vocabulary in a sentence.

Teacher continued with the next unit called Bride of Sahara, students read aloud the text and also teacher used an audio to verify teacher asked some questions about the text and clarity the doubts. Students continued with an activity from the book they had to choose the best answers for some questions then students compared the answer with the classmates next to them. In this part of the class I could see that students were more motivated to speaks to each other instead of reading the text I will really take these aspects into account and look for ways that students focus more on the reading part, changing the place students sit down it can make a change.  

In the last activity for the first part before of the break students made groups of four teacher gave them a colors paper where they had to write a question about the text of the unit the iceman then they pasted on the board, after that teacher gave them pieces of paper of different colors, students had to look for color paper with the question the same as the pieces of paper they already had it in order to answer the question if they did not answer correctly they had talk for 30 second.

On the second part of the class, teacher wrote on the board CONSTANTINOPLE students work in two groups (boys and girls) they had to think in a word started for the one letter of the word, the team who wrote more words were the winner, girls team was the winner.

For the bride of Sahara vocabulary my partner and I posted the material on the board, the word and meaning, students had to guess the meaning because they did not know the vocabulary they were confused but they tried the best they can do it to do the activity at the end students and teacher was discussing some questions of the book , in addiction teacher asked for some question about the reading .

Teacher made students read the text carefully when they finished students play ‘x’, ‘0’ game students worked in two teams (boys and girls) teacher made questions but students can not see the book until they get the 3 ‘x’ or ‘0’ in a line they won in this case the girls was the winner again, this activity I will used for the reason that I can verify if students really understood the text and because the students were focus on the activity.

Students worked in pair to make a question using the vocabulary for the second text then they asked to each other if they did not answer they had a punishment. To the end of the class an after many troubles with the projector students watched a video related with the text in order that they can answer question from the book then they share their answers.