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I can´t believe that this day got at last!
It was a hard period and full of stones! But, at the end it turned to be a pleasurable period that helped me become aware of the kind of person and education I want to be.

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Today we worked with the song: "Thriller". Most of the class was engaged in the activities proposed. They enjoyed having a different lesson.
However, some students that got late were noise and I had to ask for silence many times during the listening periods.

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The most greatful moment was during the closure period.
I thanked students for helping me to achieve my aims. To my surprise, some of them, thanked me for the way I treated them and for the way I motivated them to work.
After these words, I realized that my job was done!

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The last one!!!
September 26th

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The use of the text supported by the audio was meaningful for sutdents since it help them improve their comprehesion.

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It was great to listen to some girls saying that the visual support I use during the lessons is really helpful for them to understand the topics and the exercises.

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How did the students react to your teaching, to the activities and the materials? How did they react to the lesson?

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Students reacted well to my teaching. They found it useful to have the visual support (text) and the audio while we were reading.
In addition, learners enjoyed the comprehesion game (Tic-tac- toe)presented in the warm-up stage to recall information about the story.

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September 25th
The classroom wasn´t full today because of the national strike.

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I don´t agree with the local observer´s feedback. She pointed that there wasn´t language output today.
However, I made many oral questions during the lesson and them to developed a reading comprehesion activity.
As a consequence, I consider that students were asked to produce the language.

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As there were many absent students, those who were in the class were very lazy today. Some of them didn´t want to work as usual.
Honestly, it was a hard morning to develop my class.

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Many students were absent today because some educators were on strike. As a consequence, two boys who rarely participate in class because of their shiness, were really collaborative today.
It was great to see how much they could understand

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September 12th
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Classroom organization was different today. I organized the desks in a semi-circle and it possitively contributed to participation.

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I think that the use of the spinner or some similar strategy can be used since it was a very different way to recicle vocabulary and learners had a lot of fun.

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It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people. Mark Harmon

'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience. I added some things to the opera based from my experience on the movie - such as some of the special effects and bits of film - to make it new and interesting. It was a very good work and a very good experience. Dario Argento The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists. Logan Pearsall Smith Labor wants pride and joy in doing good work, a sense of making or doing something beautiful or useful - to be treated with dignity and respect as brother and sister. Thorstein Veblen I'd be lying if I said Hollywood wasn't still an ambition; it's everyone's, isn't it? You're getting paid very well, you're working with great actors and great directors - who wouldn't want to be a part of that? But it's not going to break my heart if it doesn't happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you. Max Beesley Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar. Madhur Mittal Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits. Twyla Tharp I'm not hungry for success. I am only hungry for good work, and that is how it is with most superstars. Every day I tell myself how fortunate I am to be where I am. Akshay Kumar I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work than five million knew me and were indifferent. Colin Firth There is an environment where someone is always looking for someone to make an error. They're always looking not for the good things, the wonderful things the president and first lady are doing, they're looking for an error or to criticize. And it's not conducive to good work. Desiree Rogers I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're religious, if they're doing good work. But government can't subsidize proselytizing or worship or religious activity. It can't. Jim Wallis There is a kind of victory in good work, no matter how humble. Jack Kemp

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It's a lot easier to do good work when you have good words to say and work with good people. Mark Harmon 'Macbeth' is one of the best operas ever, and doing it was a great experience.

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In general terms, students were really engaged in the activities. Some of them were a bit lazy today and I had to ask them to work.
It is a pleasure to observe how hard these students always work, in spite of their level of English.

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The drawing below was made by another group of girls. 

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The drawing below was made by another group of girls. 

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Well, students enjoyed it very much to play with the spinner in order to check the vocabulary contained in the introduction of the text. They laughed a lot when they had to act out the lexicon.

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Tuesday, September 4th
Choose a moment that was important for you during the lesson. Describe it and say why it was important.

During the presentation period I asked students to work in groups and draw or write words, expressions or sentences about what dogs can offer us.
To my surprise, there was a group of 3 boys who made a great effort to develop the activity because their English level is really basic. It was a real challnge, however,  they searched words in internet and tried to write the sentences alone. I was really happy to observe such a valuable attitude and congratulated them.
The picture below shows part of their work.

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"Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness." - Napoleon Hill quotes from BrainyQuote.com

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August 28th
"Even a mistake may turn to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achivement."
Enry Ford

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Honestly,although they worked well, I had the feeling that some students weren´t motivated at all. Perhaps, it happens because they are not used to reading stories in class and they find it a little difficult to  follow the text.

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During the practice  period, the dice became a useful resouce since learners had to scan the text in order to find the vocabulary required.
This activity had multiple aims, such as have fun, scan the text and show learners that there are many words which appear in the story and they can understand.

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-The classroom teacher got late to school. As a consequence, it was impossible to connect the projector without her authorization. That´s why the class started a little bit late. So, I consider that timming could have been better organized.
-In addition, this class I observed that some learners  didn´t want to be my helpers or participate since most of them were sleepy. So, I have to find an attractive way to motivate them.

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Wednesday, August 29th
It was Halloween Horror time again!
The picture below shows what we did during the warm- up period.

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Although many students were sleepy today, they had a great attitute towards the lesson. Some learners participated actively the whole class.
They enjoyed playing games very much.

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It was amazing to see how interested were learners in the topic. Although they couldn´t provide their answers completely in English, it was great to observe them involved short debates about Pit Bulls.

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I think that recycling vocabulary through games was really effective since it was helpful for students to understand the text about Pit Bulls.

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It´s some of the vocabulary I presented today with the purpose to help learners understand the reading activity.

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It´s some of the vocabulary I presented today with the purpose to help learners understand the reading activity.

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Honestly, I think things were great in general.
However, it was nice to see how Kendry worked today. He´s someone who never works and he´s always busy with his mobile phone.
Last class, I asked him to film us in order to involve him in the lesson.
Today, the bell rang and Kentry was concentrated on the crossword the activity. What´s more, he gave me his paper only when he finished it.
I simply loved this attitude!

Keny is the boy on the left in the picture below.

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I think that all the resources prepared and used with the group were fruitful since they motivated learners to enrich their knowledge.
The use of visual support, mimes, learners´translation to check comprehesion and written support were meaningful.
In addition, the use of repetition and oral questions made between activities were appropriated to hel learners improve their understanding.

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Learners were actively engaged in the lesson, they participated a lot and enjoyed what we were doing. I think that they were interested not only in the topic but they also found it interesting to work with different resources. I was amazed to observe that nobody denied working!

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Well, although we got into the classroom at 7,10 a.m. students did their best to keep their eyes open.
I observed they like talking about dogs and they were able to give their own points of view about Pit Bulls.
Despite of the fact that    learners were attentive and participated a lot, I think they really enjoyed a words searching activity I prepared with bottles full of salt and little sheets of papers inside. Students had to roll the bottle, find the words, write them on the board, search their meaning on internet and finally we checked their meaning and pronunciation.

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Wednesday, 22nd August.
What a nice day!
I can´t deny you that I´m full of happiness today. I was calmer than yesterday, so, I was able to enjoy working with the group.
We had two little problems but I think everything ran smoothly anyway.
On the one hand, the audio of the videos I show students couldn´t be heard. However, students were able to observed the videos and reflect about them.
On the other hand, some students didn´t have the copies about Pit Bulls on their booklets we were supposed to read today.Consequently, I continued developing the class focusing on the vocabulary we are going to find in the text next class.

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Enjoy the best Colin Powell Quotes at BrainyQuote. Quotations by Colin Powell, American Statesman, Born April 5, 1937. Share with your friends.

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-As I was very nervous, I forgot using meaningful transitions between activities.
-Besides, as the local observer suggested, next time I´ll ask more students to be my helpers. I think it´ll be a useful strategy to calm those talkative students.

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As it was difficult to find an appropriated video for learners level of English, I prepared a power point to explain them how this celebration started. 

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As it was difficult to find an appropriated video for learners level of English, I prepared a power point to explain them how this celebration started. 

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Considering that this group of students has a basic level of English and neither of them attends to an institute outside school, I really appreciated how they try to understand me.
Besides, regarding that they are adolescents most of them paticipated in the class actively and I was great for me to observe that they did their best.

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Well, I think that talking slowy, presenting the topic with flashcards in order to help students understand the ideas better and presenting a creative activity where learners had to pay attention to discover the answers were appropriated strategies and activities today.

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To my fortune, learners were engaged with the resources and the topic I presented them today.
Some of them, help me pasting the pictures on the board, one boy filmed the class, other students copperated translating what I was saying and most of them participated in the activities.

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This is the material I used during the warm-up.

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On Tuesdays, we are going to read a book called "Halloween Horror" since the students are interested to know more about this celebration.

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Tuesday, 21st August.
What a day! I can´t deny you that I was extremely nervous. However, students helped me a lot. Some of them were really nice and cooperated the whole class.
The morning was a little special since I had to changed some of the resources I was going to use since I was informed yesterday that other teachers needed the projector for today.
So, I made many flashcards and posters

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Wednesday, August 15th
Today classes started at 7,10 a.m.
So, imagine students´ faces!
Well, although learners were really sleepy they did their best and participated in the activities proposed.
Uprightly, I was able to observed similar situations than before, like the teacher showing some students that they can do things properly, learners giving a hand to others who needed it,nice jokes between the teacher and students,  a respectful and warm working atmosphere and students who showed interest in general.
I felt useful because some students asked me to help them solve the exercises.
Unfortunately, L1 is mostly used in the classroom because learners´ level of English is low. However, the teacher aids them understand each activity before hand.
I think I´m ready for this new challenge. But, I´m also anxious to know how students will react to a complete class in English!

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Tuesday, August 14th
This morning I had the pleasure to observe the group of students I´m going to work with.
It was nice to perceive a warm classroom atmosphere regarding that students are between 14 and 15 years old.
Although, learners have a basic level of English, they made a great effort to use the L2.
In addition, it was kind to see how some students helped their partners and the others accepted a hand.
The educator constantly motivated students to work and pointed out that there were capable of developing activities properly.
Honestly, some tears of happiness rolled on my face after leaving the class. I couldn´t believe that I finally was there! I mean, starting the end of my practicum.

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How everything                         started...

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After winter holidays, I had a short meeting with the head of this public school.
As soon as I asked her to develop my secondary practicum period at the institution, she agreed on my petition and kindly opened  me the school´s doors.
Consequently, I immediatly got in touch with the school English coordinator to start this journey.
I was assigned to work with a group of 20 students of 3rd year who have a basic level of English.

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This is the school where  I´m going to develop my secondary practicum period.
It´s a public school that recieves students with many social issues to be considered.