Grammar and Vocabulary Demo Classes

Hello dear teacher and classmates!! Welcome to another weekly entry. Time flies and I can´t believe we are already in a new register! This time, let me start with a fantastic record of our last class. We did some demo classes as a team. It was very funny to see all the course wearing black as if we had planned it!😅😂

Teacher Orlando divided us into four different groups, I'll introduce mine in a second. And we performed grammar and vocabulary topics as teachers. Let´s get into it and review what each one of us presented to the class!

Group 1: Vocabulary - Medical Vocabulary

Group number one decided to teach medical vocabulary. I really loved their activities and the topic was especially important since we will most likely be interpreting or translating medical-related things, so I found it very useful. 

First of all, they started asking some questions, they showed us some medical stuff and we brainstormed as a class, trying to guess what the right term for the image was. Then, they presented the vocabulary in a PPT.

They had also prepared some matching exercises for us to practice and for them to check if we had already understood the definitions. Then, they gave us this word search game, which I am really bad at, 😅 but it was fun!

My favorite part of their class was when they had us stand up and roll a hat. They played some background music (suggestopedia), and once the music stopped, the person holding the hat would unfold a slip of paper, see the word in it, and make a sentence. I think this was their free exercise and it was a good and fun way to check on knowledge.

This is lucky Josh in his turn to participate.

This is María making her sentence after taking a word from the hat.

Group 2: Grammar - Third Conditional

This was the Third conditional group, they started by playing a song and we had to recognize the structure we were about to study. I guess the video showed the second conditional instead of the third conditional, but the idea was a good one. I think it is a good way to make students notice the structure, later on we can start explaining and illustrating, and that´s what this group did.

If + past perfect >> would have + past participle.

Here we have the structure, they explained it deductively and stuck some posters on the whiteboard as a visual aid. They also said that this grammar structure is to express regrets. If we had or hadn´t done something, we would have gotten certain results. and I think that is the keyword to remember this structure: regrets.

Right after that, we moved on to the practices: As a free practice, Abi had Andrés Dani and me come to the front and we had to reorganize some messy sentences and since we did it correctly we were awarded with some lollipops!! 🍭

As a free practice, we came up with our own sentences, these are mine.

As the class was moving ahead, our nucitas couldn´t stand it. 😅😂

Group 3: Vocabulary - Culinary vocab

This group focused on💫culinary vocabulary💫 and as you can see in the background, everything was designed for students to dive into the topic, and Remi from Ratatouille was key.

First, they presented the vocabulary and had us repeat (I guess), that was our first contact with some words so it was nice that they had clue images to help us remember. Then we did some matching, on the left side, we had some names like "bain Marie", "infusion", "blanching", "dress", and on the right side, we had the definitions, we worked in pairs and Me and Miriam did pretty well. 😌👌

For the free practice we had to come up with a recipe ourselves, I was working with Miriam and we described the process of making some unusual but delicious snacks she knew, made out of plantain and bacon.

Voilà! If you follow all the steps in the recipe above, you will get these cuties. 

Group 4: Grammar - Second conditional

Finally, it was our group´s turn, we presented a grammar topic, we chose Second conditional.

As the very first contact with the topic, Mauricio started a shot converation with students, it went something like this:

T-Good afternoon guys! How are you doing?

S-Fine

T-You are bussy as a bee this days with midterms, aren´t you?

S- Yeah, very bussy!

T: If you didn´t have midterms this week, what would you be doing?

Then I decided to continue with the warm-up, and introduced the topic a little more with a game called Unscramble it! I arranged the class into two groups and gave them an envelope each one. They lay on the floor and I instructed them to unscramble their sentences. Once arranged, they had to stick them on the board, I dynamized the activity with a count-down, and the first group who finished would win!

Jonathan and María were in charge of presenting the topic, Jonathan gave a really good explanation and I liked the fact that he included Sponge Bob as a reference that the second conditional is as Spongebob says: 💫Imagination💫 or unlikely events.

For the controlled practice, Dani had planned to play a Kahoot game, unfortunately, it didn't work but she was resourceful enough to do it physically on paper. Then Fernando presented an image with a list of the most common verbs and instructed the class to make some sentences using the second conditional but avoiding the use of the common listed verbs. 

Miriam led the oral production activity, which was called consequences chain, she gave the bigginning of a sentence and the students kept going saying with their own words the second part of it, then the thisr student would take what the previous student said and create a new ending and so on. 

This is Maury meanwhile (in somebody else's presentation.) 😁

All in all, I enjoyed all the activities you guys prepared, I am glad that all of us could handle time very well and I am very excited to start teaching actual students!

Bye-bye for now! thanks for reading! 💫