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It sounds like you work in a difficult context but it is good to hear that you are trying your best.
About the reading materials, I liked the topic you chose (fireworks) and agree with you about the importance of pre-reading tasks.

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You have completed all 6 tasks though I am not sure that you addressed Louise's questions in Task 2.

This is well organised with lots of visuals which make it attractive and easy to read.

There are lots of interesting ideas here.

Well done !

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Task 6
Summary

I have  enjoyed all four weeks here in this beautiful   city called Leicester in England.    It is a calm and quiet city.  It is very peaceful city you do not see the people fighting, car  accidents,   thieves,  or being mugged thank God.    People are friendly in their way and their culture  because if you need a help and ask anyboody for it they will do it.   We need to understand every single culture and not try to compare one and other because you will get a culture shock.     I had many expectations  of coming here concerning to the people, food, education,  living with a host family and taking the bus from my host family's  home to the university.  I am impressed with the timetable because punctuality is very important and a way to show respect and you are compromised.   The education and teaching have been very useful for me because I have seen the compromise of every teacher with us in giving us  their best of themselves as a person and professional one.      I have learned a lot with each teacher in every single class that I have received from learning their methodology to new vocabulary words.      I have visited some important places of this city (Leicester) such as museums, churches, cathedral,  and cities near to Leicestes as London,  Cambridge . I have learned in every class that I have taken here and with all the teachers phonetic, pronunciation, vocabulary words, activities to start the class and to finish the class, writing, reading, methodology, composition, and about the English culture and food. It is different the Education System here than in our country we need to follow and adjust to the Ministry of Education but if they have given the opportunity to come here is becuase they will do and they will expect some changes of the teachers and the teaching process . We need to be positive and optimist in relation with this aspect . I think that if we all the teachers who have come here get together and talk to our Authrity things will change and we can make a change too as teacher applying all the knowledge that we have learn. So I have to make change and try to have by my own all the materials and activities in order to be a successful teacher.

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There are three important questions that we need to answer.
1. Do you enjoy making classroom materials? Why or Why not?
2. What are some of the challenges you have in your group?
3. What might happen if there were not any pre reading tasks?

It is very important making classroom materials in order to motivate and encourge the students to get engaged with the class.    That is the reason I always try to do and the students will see the lesson and the learning process more exciting and easier for them.

Well, it is so difficult in the area that I work because the parents do not  show and help their kids, one reason could be because  they do not have a degree or they have not studied more in a high level so they do not care about their kids so if I give them homework to do,  the students  sometimes do not have any help from home.     Another challege could be they do not understand the importance of learning English like I said most of their parents do not know English and they are surviving so they see the English language as something irrelevant for them so as a teacher I have to encourage them and prove them that learning English is very important and useful for all of them in order to find a better  job or study in another country or communicate with other people; it has many advantages that they need to understand.

Probably the students will not be so interested in the class that if I had a pre reading or they could be confussed about the lesson or topic or they could be lost to participate in the class. So I can see the importance of giving them some pre reading is very useful and teachers create an environment useful for the students as well.

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After the students know the instructions and learn the lesson; they should be able to use the simple present with the verb to be

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After the students know the instructions and learn the lesson; they should be able to use the simple present with the verb to be

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All the students are paying attention to the class.

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All the students are paying attention to the class.

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First, you need to engage your students in the class asking them some questions such as What is the verb to?  When, where  and How?you will learn about it.    Second, write on the board the verb to be.   Third, students will repeat the verb to be with their pronoun .  Finally, students will write five sentences  in the simple present of the verb to be using a word bank.

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First, you need to engage your students in the class asking them some questions such as What is the verb to?  When, where  and How?you will learn about it.    Second, write on the board the verb to be.   Third, students will repeat the verb to be with their pronoun .  Finally, students will write five sentences  in the simple present of the verb to be using a word bank.

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Verb To be

I am               you are

She is              He is       It is

they are      you are        we are

Words Bank

Student    beautiful    dog     friends     teacher        sister          brother     family        book

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Students are able to talk about interesting topics so teachers need to engage them.

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Students are able to talk about interesting topics so teachers need to engage them.

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Giving an interesting topic

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students are applying the lesson

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How to plant a tree

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It is important at the beginning of the class to use a warmer up so  the students get encouraged and they will have an exciting and interesting   activities in the classroom.  You can use flash cards with daily expressions that will help students to improve their vocabulary and also pronunciation. For example if you have low grades such as  first, second and third grade, it is necessary and important to do this.
Good morning         Good afternoon      Stand up     sit down

Using these daily expressions will help students in many ways. First, to learn the language, second with the pronunciation, third listening practice and finally to write the words correctly because they see them in the flash cards.

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Warmer
As a teacher I have many ways to warm up the class with my students in  Elementary School where I am working.  This is my first year working in a public and Elementary school.    So in the beginning of the first quarter or trimestral I did many warmers with my students such as games, activities, flash cards and songs.   One day I heard one students of fourth grade singing a christian song which was very old,  it was sung when I was an adolescent  about eleven or twelve years old.    He was a rude and impolite
student so I asked him and told him why do not you teach this old christian song to our classmate.  He was embarrased about it because his mother was a Sunday school teacher in a Christian church.   Everybody liked the idea to sing a Christian song in the class because in this class most of the students did not like the English class.   In addition of that, I had to translate this song in English because this song was only in Spanish and as you know I am an English teacher.  It was amazing  and worthy the idea.  It was an impact in my school that the principal asked me to sing in our Mondays'  presentation.

Thanks to the Lord
Giving thanks to the Lord
Giving thanks to him
giving thanks to the Lord  (repeat)

in the morning we feel so happy
because the Lord love us too much
and you  my brother why don't you sing
this beautiful song to our Savior  Lord

the purpose of singing this special song was to give our Lord thanks and it was unbelievable that this song made the students to change their behaviors,  because every Monday and Friday that we sang this song  they were so excited and happy.

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Pronunciation
English Vowels Sound

Now we are going to see the pronunciation of the vowels .   It is important to know that in English we have two different sounds which are the long and the short sound. As a result, I will give you some examples how to apply these two sounds using the vowels.   As we know, we have five vowels so I will give you a chart of how we could use  the five vowels with some words:

Long                            Vowel                       Short

name       shame                       A                     cat            nab

me            she                            E                     egg           bet

hi               mind                         I                      hit              kin

go              slow                         O                     got            slot

use          university                   U                    but              cup

I am going to add in these five vowels the use of Y and the Schwa sound that is in some words too.

bunny  fly   cry                          Y                  myth        gym

Schwa sound:   around, typical, naked, obey, gallop, and impetus.

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Topic Verb To Be
This is my content for my class today.   i´m going to speak about The Verb To Be.   I need to conjugate the verb to be according with the personal pronoun.  For example Be is referring for  Am, Is and Are if you are going to refer to plural form of the personal pronoun  example:  personal pronouns are: I, You, He, She, It, They, You, and We.  Depending of the pronoun you will have to conjugate the verb that in this case is To Be.  Now after you know the pronoun, it is importat that you can write the verb next or together with the ponoun.  Now you will see that it is so easy to do it.     I is the first singular person so you will have to write
I am: You is the second singular person so it is You are
then for He, She and It you notice that all of these three personal pronouns are refering to the third singular person so it would be He is, She is and It is all of them with is because of the third personal form, after that They, You one more time because in this case is for plural form and we all of them you are using in the plural form so you will have to use Are, examples: They are, You are, and We are. So the two important things are the personal pronoun I, You, He, She, It, They, You and We, and the second important thing in this class is the conjugation of the verb to be ( am, is and are) then, you will notice what person to you refer to first, second or third singular , or the plural form. Than you

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My School
I'm working in a small Elementary School named El Valle de Urraca in a red area (dangerous area) in a Special District called San Miguelito.   It's my first year working as an English Teacher in a public school.   It.s totally different than working in a private school.    I teach all fourth grade students.   First of all,  kids' behaviour is very rude and impoliteness because the environment and the way of living, all of these things make them to be in these ways, and also sometimes their families are part of the problem.  Sometimes, they come to school without eating breakfast or lunch, so in the break time, they ask for food so I try to cook some days and bring them food or give them money or ask the lady who is in charge of the cafeteria to give them some food for some of them and I pay for all the food that some students have asked for her.  I'm sure I can make a change in their behaviour  but, I need to influence them dealing with them with love, care and affection so I will get their trust to help them. It's a difficult and hard situation but not impossible.