Third Hot Reflection 2nd Period

Describe  On April the 7th, I gave my last class to Basic English students.  I had few students when I started the warm-up, some students were joining the class while the the activity was being held; so, I gave a quick explanation about the activity we were doing. I told them to think that they were not in class but in their favorite place. Students had to write their favorite place and activities they usually do in that place. While I was monitoring, I saw some students thinking by themselves and some others asking each other what was their favorite place.. The topic that I was going to teach was Present Progressive and Simple Present. I present a reading for them to identify the use of each tense. Then I gave them some rules on how to add the "S" or the "ES" to the verbs in the third person singular in a sheet of paper for they to keep them and review them; moreover, I gave a quick explanation. At the end I had time for them to practice with a Find Someone Who activity. This activity helped them to use the grammar structure explained because they had to look for people who perform activities like playing soccer, do the housework, etc. However, I had problems when monitoring because they are too many students. Besides that, I consider that my class was meaningful.
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I prepared a warm-up with the intention to challenge students` thinking, at the same time to use the grammar structure I was going to explain.	Based on what I already know, It is good for students too challenge their thinking. Moreover, it is important to use warm-ups to introduce the new topic or grammar.	Next time I will try to prepare the warm-up to challenge students` thinking because it is important for them to try to think out of the box.
I gave my students extra material about the rules on how to add the "S" and "ES" to the verbs in third person singular. Doing this helped me because I had them focus on the material when giving the explanation. Also, they can review the material later at home.	According to what I have learned, extra material is helpful for students to review or study for exams. Also, is helful for students who do not copy in class and for the teacher to save time.	In the future, I will try to prepare extra material for me to save time and for students to have a resource to review or study.
In this lesson I had problems when monitoring when developing the last activity because of the number of students. They are too many, so, the classroom was full of students that made monitoring to be diffcult.	Based on what I have learned, teachers must monitor in every activity in order to enourage students to focus in the activity. Teachers must find the way to monitor every space of the classroom where students perform activities.	In future lessons I will try to find a good way to monitor the majority of my students in order to involve them in the activity.

Second Hot Reflection 2nd Period

Describe  March 31st, this was my second class teaching to the Basic English students from the mayor. In this class I felt more confident because I had shared a good time with them in the first class. The topic that I Taught was a review about present continuous and introducing the modal verbs CAN and HAVE TO. The warm up I used was about telling and performing and ability of them. For example, to move the ears, to move a bone, etc. We had fun with that activity because students performed interesting abilities. After that, I did a brainstorming about how to be in shape; students came up with activities that people can do and also with some important and necessary factors for being in shape. Then, I present the modal verbs in a dialogue using the present continuous tense. It was good to see they were practicing the dialogue with a partner. I had some volunteers performing the dialogue in front of the class. I correct some pronunciation errors. I did not write the words on the board for they to pronounce them well and that is something I must do every time I am going to correct. At the end I asked them to work in groups of 4 they had to make a chart about tips how to be in shape to live longer. They needed to write obligations and possible activities to be healthy. I like this activity because they were sharing their ideas to come up with helpful tips. Finally they had the opportunity to choose two people from each group to explain the tips. It was a nice class because they participated a lot.
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Interpret	Generalize
I prepared activities which I could control but at the same time they were activities that students need to be responsible of their development and participation.	Based on what I already know, basic students do not have much vocabulary to performed to much free activities, we need to adapt free activities we can control their performance.	Next time I will try to use activities for them to be active and involved in the learning. I will avoid activities students get bored or activities they are use to do.
I did not correct their errors in a right way. I should have written the words on the board and make them repeat. I just had them repeating the words I was mentioning.	According to what I have learned, teachers must write the words students mispronounce for they to have the connection of the spelling and pronunciation.	Next time I will not forget to write the words on the board for they to have a better perspective of the spelling and pronunciation.
In this lesson I did a brainstorming. I could see that all students were sharing their ideas which were very accurate.	Based on what I know, brainstorming is a good way to challenge their thinking. At the same way it is a very good way to ask for their participation.	In future lessons I will try to incorporate activities similar to this in order to challenge their thinking and have students thinking out of the box.