Wednesday 30th Topic: ON THE PHONE

This day 5 teachers were in charge to teach vocabulary to the class. They started by making a game called: chinese whisper as a warm-up. Then they presented a dialogue so that students could identify some phone expressions and repeat them several times.

After that, teachers related those expressions with the experiences students have had using them.Then, students worked on 1 exercise; the directions were to choose the correct response to each expression. Finally, students had to share their anwers with the rest of the class.

As the wrap-up of the class, students were asked to relate the expressions with a topic so that they can learn how to use those type of expressions.

Topic: Comparatives and superlatives

This class was given by 5 teachers who taught grammar. They started with a game that was about having 2 different pictures and to use the comparative and superlative structure to describe them. After that, they taught some comparative and superlatives rules, for example:
One of the comparative forms for shorts adjetives is:
                                                           Big ---- Bigger                                              *****When you have an adjective that the last 3 letters are consonant+vowel+consonant, you double the last consonant

Superlatives
Better --- bestBad ----- worst
The teachers asked students to work in pairs so that they can work on filling the blanks with the correct form of comparatives and superlatives. At the end, students were asked to make sentences describing some images given by the teachers using comparatives and superlatives.

Wednesday 6th Topic: TEXTING

Teachers started the class by playing a game consisting on finding the same pair of card from a table they created. Then, they asked students to make pair to work on a reding exercise. First, students had to read the text out loud. Second, they had to work on an exercise that was about identifying the main idea of each paragraph from the text. Thrid, students shared the ideas found to their classmates in front of the class. Finally, they switched pair and shared the same ideas. 

After finishing with the exercises, students played another game called "The rulet". The purpose of this game was to recall the text students have read before. First, teacher chose a student to stand up and spin the rulet. The rulet had questions from the reading, so the student had to asnwers the question chosen. 

Wednesday 13th Topic: Professions and Trades Skill: Vocabulary

The teachers leading this class were Abigail Guevara, Sara Dominguez, Tirsa Guevara, José Ardón and Carolina Zúniga. As a lead-in activity the class teachers pasted in the board pictures of professions and trades, all of them mixed, students had to come to the front and classify them by marking them.

In the presentation stage, teacher gave a little description of the profession or trade while drawing a picture related to it in the board. The students, who were previously given a list of such professions and trades, had to identify which profession or trade the teacher was explaining.

To continue with the practice stage, students asked each other about their professions. To finish the class, students worked in pairs creating a story with a profession assigned by the teacher. Then student came to the front and presented their story. 

And to wrap up the class, teacher asked From all the professions/trades we have studied today, which one do you like the most? and why?

Wednesday 13th Topic: Modals Skill: Grammar

In the firts stage of this class, the teachers did a musical activity which was about to play the audio of two songs, and students (simultaneously) have identify in the lyrics the verbs: will, may and might. Then, teachers and students checked it together.
In the second stage, teachers introduced the topic with a little explanation about when you can use will, may and might. After that, teachers presented the structure of the sentences with some pieces of paper that contained fragments of a sentence. Then, students worked in pairs and change the sentences into a negative form, and checked the answers. Also, they played a game in which there were two modal verbs in a balloon and it was a race, students were supposed to write the 2 sentences as fast as they can, finally teacher checked the sentences and asked students if they were correct.

After that, students had to answer some questions using their handout to practice how to answer them with the modal verbs MIGHT, MAY and WILL.  Also, they did a Board Game, which consisted that the teacher asked students to stay around a board, then everyone of them throw the dice to start the game. Whenever one of them stopped in a box with a task, that student had to perform the task.

Finally, teacher gave students a worksheet in which they filled in the blanks with modals: will, may  and might. At the end students read each sentence,teacher checked the answers and corrected them if it was necessary.

Wednesday 20th Topic: Plans for the future Skill: Listening

In the first stage of this class, teachers had a question in the board so that students stand up and share their information with their classmates. The question was: What are your plans for the future?

In the during stage, teachers played an audio about people who were talking about their plans for the future. After listening the audio, students had to take a paper that was under their seats; each paper contained the name of a character and they had to mention what each character said about their plans for the future.

After that, they made a quiz of multiple choices and played the audio again. Finally, teacher gave a paper so that students can fill it information from one of the classmates or observers. 

For the last stage, teachers did an exercises about completing a conversation in the board. They made 2 teams and they had to stand up in order to complete both conversations.