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This school is particularly special to me, I´m completely delighted to deliver my  primary practicum here: E.P.P. N° 54 is the institution where I first taught some years ago, and, it´s 7th grade also. What´s more, some kids have been my own pupils in first grade when I was in charge of a project of English in the EGB 1.
It´s a public school with reduced pupil enrollment, but which offers lot of interesting opportunities to students.

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* The first observation took place at 7.30. I participated during the flag salutation and could see the students before they knew about me. This gave me and idea about their attitude, which was expected from the age: they were sleepy, somewhat reticent to sing, and complaining when teachers asked them  why some were not wearing overalls.
* The second observation took place during the middle of the day. Students were restless and dispersed.
They are 13 in total, the group seems nice though. Most of them pay attention to explanations, participate and complete the activities given by the teacher. They sometimes get a little noisy. One student is a little rebelious, he uses the phone and headphones during class, he doesn´t obey the teacher and constantly uses bad words.
Lessons are mostly taught in Spanish; English is used only in examples and for the completion of written or oral activities.
Contents, during observations, were mainly grammatical and, in my opinion, quite repetitive and they lack contextualization.

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It´s becoming a difficult task to plan this period... I´m feeling completely hesitant!
I want to make something that really moves them into communicating and enjoying it!

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Butterflies in my stomach!!!
I was so nervous and worried about the pupils´ reaction towards my first lesson!
I tried to catch their attention through the resources and focused on giving them a main role during the lesson.
On the one hand, it worked nicely since they were all eager to participate and followed me during the whole lesson. But, on the other hand, I wasn´t able to carry on with the lesson plan... I had to skip two activities. I realized my plan had been too ambitious!
All in all, I left the classroom with a feeling of accomplishment. I could deliver the whole lesson in English and students understood everything and had a very active role. I could feel they were interested and involved. It was a succesful challenge for everyone!

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This time I wanted to focus on laguage: revising a structure already known by the students and complementing it with the new context.
The lesson was not so easy though... students were dispersed and sleepy. It was very difficult to have all of them working. Maybe they were expecting having a whole free day celebrating the Student´s Day... but recreation time wouldn´t start till 9 am!
I felt demotivated and a little frustrated, but then, after talking to the teacher, I understood they are adolescents and of course, they have their days... I have to work harder for next class to re gain their enthusiasm! I won´t give up!

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Two aims for this 40 minutes - lesson: introduce new language forms and motivate SS!
Fortunately they were in a better mood. They payed attention and participated actively.
Visual aids, whole class interaction and group activities work excellent with this group!
There was an extreme moment with two boys offending each other. Fortunately, I could manage it offering one of them to change group and both were able to continue with the task. One of them comes from the children´s home, so I have to be careful to choose strategies that may integrate and motivate him; I have to offer him opportunities rather than focusing so much on his behaviour or attitude. I noticed he has been doing his best to improve during my lessons.

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Last lesson! A mixture of feelings... I´m glad to finish another period succesfully, but also sad for leaving the group. I´ve felt good vibes all along, kids really enjoyed the journey and learned English from a completely different perspective, which was a breath of fresh air for them and the teacher, who really appreciated the practicum.
I wanted to share a last special lesson with them. I had lots of ideas but only 40 minutes!
I prepared a game, which resulted fabulous! At first only a few wanted to play but in the end they all call for more and more!!! I felt completely proud!
These kids were really special to me, I could perceive they might lack many things and trust, they need to realize how much they are able to do and, during the lessons, they become protagonists and they showed it to me. I wanted to thank them for it!!! At the last minutes, I gave them a cake and a little present. I can´t express in words how happy and thankful they were! They hugged me strongly and even gave me an applause when I told them I finished the primary practicum succesfully and thanks to them!

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I was presented to the pupils and they immediately wanted to ask me questions. They were curious about travelling around so they asked if I had been to other countries. I tried to respond using English and they seemed motivated to understand. T asked them to ask me questions using the contents they were learning: Yes/No questions.
At first, I was worried that they would reject my presence there, but then I felt very comfortable and perceived a good rapport with them.

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I chose to base the unit of work around the topic: ¨In the city¨.
I expect they would be able to talk about locations in a second language by relating target knowledge to their local context.

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TEACHER Vero!