Third DAPA Last Period

Describe  On May 11th, 2016 I taught my last class to the students of Intermediate English II. This time I had the opportunity to present the topic Inventions. I took advantage of the topic and I prepared speaking activities which are the ones that I like the most because in that way students practice and use the language orally. After the warm up I asked my students to form what teachers call an onion ring. There, the students were asked to talk about their favorite, important, and useful invention. Moreover, students were engaged talking to their partner. Then, I gave them a reading which I decided to read it with students´ participation. We checked new words and pronunciation. The last activity was a group work. Students worked in groups of 4 in order to make a chart. They needed to choose an invention to write a short description and how it has changed the world. Furthermore, they had to present their chart and explain it. It was good to see every group presenting their chart and explain it. I think it was a participative and nice class.
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Speaking activities are the ones that help students to practice the language orally in order to improve their speaking proficiency which is an important skill to be developed. That is why I prepare activities for students to speak.	Based on what I already know, teachers must be sure about the input that is going to be explained. Teachers do not have to invent about something they do not know.	Next time I will prepare speaking activities according to the topic for my students to increase their speaking proficiency.
I had students interacting with different classmates to perform the activities. These activities help to engage students by speaking and it is a good way to avoid students getting distracted doing other things.	According to what I have learned, interactions in the group is helpful for the students to develop their social skill interaction. Every student need to interact using the target language which is something that help students to feel confident when using the language.	Next time I will try to include interactive activities to help students to develop their social skill.
I asked my students to work in groups to make a chart and explain it in front of the class. Each group made the chart and explain it very good.	Based on what I know, group work is a good way to hinder their social interaction, leadership, and discussion.	In future lessons I will try to adequate group activities to have my students improving different social skills.

Second DAPA Last period

Describe  On May 4th, 2016 was my second class with Intermediate English II. The topic that I was going to teach was adjective clauses using Whom, Whose, Where, and Which. In my case I needed to review the use of whom and whose because there were some things that were unclear for me since it was a topic that I had studied some years ago. This topic was new for the students, so I had to explain the grammar part with details. I prepare the explanation going to adjectives clauses at the time. Since Whom and Whose were kind of complicated I decided to explain them together. I started to explain first Whom with examples but I notice that for my students was difficult to understand. So I asked for volunteers to come to the front and write a sentence. I had 3 of them writing correct sentences so I felt satisfied because they were catching the idea. I did the same when explaining the use of Whose because I also notice their confused faces.Then I gave them a practice for they to use whom and whose which they did very well. The matter was that I took to much time explaining both adjective clauses because asking for volunteers was not in my plans. After the practice, I explained the use of which and where. These adjectives were pretty easy to understand for my students. After the explanation I gave them a practice. At the end of the class I could not do the final practice which was to fill in the blanks in the conversation using the four adjectives clauses because I took to much time explaining whom and whose.
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I needed to review the use of some adjectives clauses because since it was a topic that I have studied long time ago I did not have a clear perspective about the use.	Based on what I already know, teachers must be sure about the input that is going to be explained. Teachers do not have to invent about something they do not know.	Next time I will take my time to investigate about a certain topic that is not clear for me in order to give my students a veridic input.
I took too much time in the grammar part because I was not sure if my students were catching the explanation. So I decided to ask for volunteers to write examples on the board which was not in my plans to be done.	According to what I have learned, grammar part is important but sometimes teachers must give students time to internalize the new input. Moreover, the practice will clarify their doubts.	Next time I will explain the grammar part and prepare more than one practice for my students to get the idea easily and faster. Also, I will include in my plans asking for volunteers.
Asking for volunteers helped me to elicit if the students were catching the input I was explaining	Based on what I know, eliciting is a technique to see how much the students know about a specific topic or how much students know about something.	In future lessons I will care about eliciting in order to notice about my students knowledge and also I will have my students participating in the grammar part for them to internalize the learning.

First DAPA Last Period

Describe  April 29th, today I taught my first class to the students from Intermediate English II. The topic that I present was the adjectives clauses using WHO and THAT. I started with a warm up related with the topic and the procedure was great. Then I developed activities in which the students were most of the time interacting. I could see that they enjoyed interactive activities because they like to talk a lot. However, I notice some students do not like to stand up and I think it is because they feel kind of laziness in the early morning because the class is at 6:45. It mostly happens in the warm up. The activity that I enjoyed the most was Who am I? the procedure was the following. I pasted some nouns in their backs. The person who received the noun had to ask to the rest of the students Who am I? and the rest must describe the object, food, or person with the commands that were: You are a object that.. You a are a person who... or You are something that... It was nice to see all of them explaining and trying to guess the noun.
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I notice their lazy face when I asked them to stand up for the warm up. It seemed that they were forced to leave their sits for a moment.	Based on what I already know, warm ups help students to activate their body and to have a dynamic time before getting the input.	Next time I will implement kinesthetic warm ups or activities that helps students to activate their body because most of them get up early in the morning, that means they are still kind of sleepy.
Most of my activities were interactive. I decided to implement those activities because the topic allow me to use them, and because I know some students are shy when interacting with the teacher and they prefer to interact with their classmate. So, it is a good way to have those students using the language.	According to what I have learned, Interactive activities allow shy students to participate because they avoid feeling afraid of making mistakes in front of the entire class. Also it is a good way to keep students focus in the learning because they do not get distracted easily but talking with their classmates about a certain topic using the target language.	Next time I will try to include as much interactive activities as I can because is the only way that students use the language orally. I know some of them are shy and teachers must create opportunities for those students to practice orally.
In this lesson I could see my students with a good level of engagement and I think it was because of the activities. They were participating, laughing, talking in every activity.	Based on what I know, engagement is an important factor for students to internalize the learning.	In future lessons I will care about my students´ engagement because is the key point to have a significative lesson.