This first class in the basic level made me
remember many things, especially because my tutor was the same teacher I had
when I was in basic, but in this blog entry I’m just going to share the
memories I have from the recent past, teaching Simple Past.
Everything started with a warm up oriented to
favor memorization skills. I wrote a short paragraph on the board and I had my
students read it several times, but each time I erased at least 3 or four
words, at the end I gave a prize to the ones that memorized the paragraph. After that we went through a reading about
Michael Jackson, and I made my students follow the reading by playing hot seats
at the same time.
I gave them some questions which they were
supposed to discus and answer; eventually, I noticed they were taking too much
time to answer them, and that was not so good since I still had to develop a
grammar explanation and an oral practice; Unfortunately, due to the time, I was
just able to explain the interrogative and negative forms of the past. Good
news my kind tutor said that there was no problem, and she took care of the
practice, but I still think I shouldn’t let that happen again. I will use that
memory from the past to become a better teacher in the future.
