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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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.