It was very early in the morning when I arrived to the
university and I knew that it was time to do what I love, which is teaching, so
arrived to the room (B33) some students were there, and I wrote on the board
the agenda, and pasted some pieces of paper with adjectives. I started my class at 6:45 am greeting my
students, and after a brief greet I told them to read what it was on the board
which were the adjectives, so I told them to read and analyze them carefully. A
part of the adjectives had positive meaning, another one negative, and some of
them have both, so I wrote in the board a positive and negative side, and one
that said both, the purpose of this activity was that they classify the
adjectives by their meaning, and I did it to warm up the class. I gave them a
ball, and played some music and Ss’ started passing the ball, when the stopped,
the person who got the ball had to pass to the front and choose one adjective
to classify it. After that, I asked to take out their books so, they had to
complete an exercise from the book which was about classifying the same
adjectives used in the previous activity, but it was mixed with another
vocabulary given in a previous class. I continued with the class and I asked
them to work in trios to the discuss about a person that they admire the most,
so the purpose of this activity was to describe the person using the adjectives
given, I gave Ss some minutes to discuss about that, so after the finished,
they had to come to the front and shared the information using the
adjectives. In order to finish the
class, I asked to go the one reading in their books, so they had to read it, I
gave them some minutes to read the paragraph. When they finished reading it,
they had to discuss some questions that were on the books related to the
reading. I loved this class because Ss like to participate and it is nice to
see the interaction that they have, also they have lots of motivation to learn
and practice the language.
