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.
Analyze		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
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.