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crossword

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To start with the class I used a picture of a group of students next to a plane and I presented some of the things they may have said to their parents, using if, when and unless. then, we read the chart  carefully altogether and students copies it on their folders. Next, we worked with some activities from the book complete Pet, their coursebook.

This class was also  aimed at giving students further exposure to the language, allowing them to describe people's appearance in detail. I integrated Litening and speaking through a song  and a listening activity. Writing and reading were integrated in the crossword.
The song I used is called "everything at once" by Lenka, and it has plenty of adjetives, so I thought it was a good way to introuce the topic. Students listened and completed the song. They like it and even asked me to play it once more so they could sing it with the lyrics.

To use the different adjetives, I took some pictures: one from lenka and the other from Leo Messi. Students come to the front and stack the adjetives on the picture. After that, we created a chart to classify them into cathegories.

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if, when, unless: poster

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Second conditional: Poster

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First Conditional : Poster

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Zero conditional: Poster

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Phrasal verbs's poster

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The grammar points of this class were conditionals. So to start the lesson I pointed to the chat we had worked with the precious class, eliciting all the infromation I could get as regards "zero conditional". Once we had revised it, students played a board game:   they got together in groups of 5 and they had to answer/ ask questions using the zero conditional form.
I think that students liked it and it was a good way of practising the grammar topic orally.
they I took out a second chart. The idea was to compare it with the first and that students could see when we can use each of the conditionals( zero and first in this case). After that we did a written activity they had to complete with the correct of the first conditional.
In order to keep on working with the following conditional, I took to the class a movie extract from the film "Jumper" . After we had watched I asked students questions about it and about the character's ability ( travel in time) . This triggered further questions such us " what would you do if you could travel in time?" which led space to the introduction of a new conditional ( second conditional) as we were talking about something which isn's always true ( zero c) neither a possibility in the future ( firts cond).
In pairs, students answered some questions such as : " what would you do if you could travel in time? and completed sentences too.
We also worked with some activities from the coursebook ( complete pet)

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Lenka - Everything At Once (Official Video)

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Rain ( song activity)

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Here's a cover of Rain, the B-side to Paperback Writer released in 1966. Great track and great drumming! Leave comments and enjoy.

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Before showing them the presentation I played the "simpsons" theme song, so students could guess what we were going to deal with. The idea was to use this cartoon, which everybody knows, and introduce some phrasal verbs in the quiz.
Once they have answered the quiz, I took out a poster with the definition of the phrasal verbs. Students had to come to front and match them with their meanings. They did it succesfully! Then I asked them to copy the chart on their folders.

For the following activity, a game, I prepared cards with the phrasal verbs in halves. I gave them out, mixed, and askes students to go arround the classroom looking for the other half. When they find it, they had to write a sentence using it. We shared the sentences orally and they were great!

After that, they worked with some activities from the coursebook, using those phrasal verbs and we checked them orally too.
Another funny activity I used was a creative one. I took out a picture and I invented a brief story about the people in it, using 3 phrasal verbs. Then, I asked them to do the same with other pictures. This activity took a bit longer than expected, as they worked in groups. However, they productions were accurate and they used many descriptive adjetives too.

The following activity was based in a song by the beatles ( rain). As the song contains many examples of the first conditional I thought it would be a good idea to use it to introduce the topic in an appealing way. First, I handed out the copies and told students we were going to listen to song. They had to listen and complete the gaps. Once they have finished we talked about the song, their opinion on it, what was it about and their authors. Then I moved on and focused on the conditional form, and they game examples from the song.
I prepared a chat so that to explain when and how to use it and how to make it. Then, they copied it on their folders and we moved on to a writen activity, where they had to complete using the correct form of zero conditional.

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For this practicum period I worked with I1, the first year from Secondary at this school.  The first thing that shocked me the moment I entered the classroom was how large it was and that it was crowded with students. They were 32 students so I was a bit worried about how to manage the group in my future classes, as I've never delivered any classes in Secondary school yet.
To my amazement, the group behaved wonderfully, they all worked collaborativelly and participated in the class.
I stayed there for two periods, the first one, grammar and vocabulary and the second, History.
During the Grammar lessons students worked alone or in pairs and then they checked the activities orally. They worked with a coursebook and with photocopies. As for the explanations, the teacher made charts on the board and students copies them on their folders.
An interesting thing was that students were very indepent. Whenever they came up with a word they didn't know, they inmediately look it up in the dictionary and wrote the meaning in their copybooks. At the end of the lesson, they shared all the new words they had found.
During the History lessons, Students watched the film "Braveheart" to learn more about the period they were learning about. they watched a part of it, and they, they made comments on the simmilarities and differences between the movie and what they have read on the textbook.

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Adjetives poster

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The class. (I1 31STUDENTS)

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To introduce the topic, Phrasal verbs in this case, I prepared the following presentation :

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The last class was about adjectives to describe people and people's personality. So I used a picture of a film axtract, we previously watched, as a starting point. We went on working with some activities from their coursebooks. One activity they did was to describe a famous person and then other group had to draw it, they had load of fun doing it even thought I was worried they may not want to do it. Then, to introduce the personality adjetives, I created a wordsearch. I googleed funfacts like " the first 4 words you find on a word search are the ones that describe you" which they found funny too.  To finish the lesson I took an activity where they had to  answer four questions and choose an animala, a color, an emotion, for a specific situation. They all worked in silence. Then I told them that they had just made a personality quiz and that each part had a meaning. They all liked that activity and even wanted to shared their results. :)

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I did my practicums in I1, the first year from secondary school in NCI college

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I did my practicums in I1, the first year from secondary school in NCI college