Second Entry

This was the second week working with students of Intermediate English I, and something that I would like to mention is that every single day I learn something new. I hoped to have a better experience in the second session, but it was not like that. At the beginning of the class I faced the situation that not all of the students were in the classroom, and I had an activity to be done in order to open the class, but I could not do it because I had to wait for the rest of the students.
It was planned to keep the students sit randomly distributed, so I gave each of the students a different card containing the image of some fruit; then I mentioned the names of the fruit one by one, so students had to sit following the order that I gave them. It was a successful activity at the beginning, but the second activity required students to move their desks and make a circle; that was the problem because after the activity some of the students wanted to continue sitting next to the person they are accustomed, so I had to establish the order again.
I think it could be better if I established the order after the second activity and not before; I could see that I spent valuable time doing it again; however, this is something that I think might be changed in future classes.
The rest of the class was very well organized, so I did not have any difficulties. I made a review of the structure there is and there are so it was not difficult for me because students already knew some rules to be taken into account. I don’t know if it happens to you colleagues, but I feel that time flies when we are teaching it is great because I see that I like what I do.
There is going to be another experience this coming week, so I hope to learn many new things and share them with you.