After being very passive at class during the first week but observing a lot and trying to analyze everything that was happening and not missing any detail, we started to participate helping the students when doing their exercises in class.
That week we worked with the students of 4t.ESO on the comparatives and superlatives. On Tuesday the teacher explained the basic rules and then they had to do some exercises from the book. We helped them in little groups so that they could learn it better and realized that most of them were ashamed to ask because they thought they knew nothing. In the following class with the same course we remembered about it, we did a
listening and then they wrote a short composition comparing cities and people. On Mondays we spend three hours at the school. The first two hours we work with the students of 4t.ESO, but they come in two groups. These classes focus on active participation of the students, since they are less and it is easier to put in practice their oral and writing skills. So what we did was to read their work in front of the others and then the teacher asked some questions that they had to answer using comparative and superlative.
That day I observed that most of them learnt and knew the comparatives and superlatives the previous week but didn’t remember how to do it just after the weekend because, although it is a pity, they learn just to do what they are supposed to do in the class but not because they really want to learn English. Nevertheless, I also noticed that if you work with them in little groups and show them that they can do it because it is not that difficult, they see that you show interest and care of them, and they really try their best and make you feel better about it.
We also worked with the other groups that week. We helped the 1r.ESO students writing a short story about detectives in pairs, after reading a brief and very easy novel. What we did with the 2n.Batxillerat guys was to participate in a discussion they were having about politics and politicians. And on Wednesday, the teacher gave some nice homework for the 4t. ESO students: they will create a poster or leaflet, so they had to look for information about their native city or a city they’ve ever been.
I would say that, although bearing in mind that most of our pupils have a very low level of English, we have to encourage them somehow because I am sure they can do it.
That week we worked with the students of 4t.ESO on the comparatives and superlatives. On Tuesday the teacher explained the basic rules and then they had to do some exercises from the book. We helped them in little groups so that they could learn it better and realized that most of them were ashamed to ask because they thought they knew nothing. In the following class with the same course we remembered about it, we did a
listening and then they wrote a short composition comparing cities and people. On Mondays we spend three hours at the school. The first two hours we work with the students of 4t.ESO, but they come in two groups. These classes focus on active participation of the students, since they are less and it is easier to put in practice their oral and writing skills. So what we did was to read their work in front of the others and then the teacher asked some questions that they had to answer using comparative and superlative.That day I observed that most of them learnt and knew the comparatives and superlatives the previous week but didn’t remember how to do it just after the weekend because, although it is a pity, they learn just to do what they are supposed to do in the class but not because they really want to learn English. Nevertheless, I also noticed that if you work with them in little groups and show them that they can do it because it is not that difficult, they see that you show interest and care of them, and they really try their best and make you feel better about it.
We also worked with the other groups that week. We helped the 1r.ESO students writing a short story about detectives in pairs, after reading a brief and very easy novel. What we did with the 2n.Batxillerat guys was to participate in a discussion they were having about politics and politicians. And on Wednesday, the teacher gave some nice homework for the 4t. ESO students: they will create a poster or leaflet, so they had to look for information about their native city or a city they’ve ever been.
I would say that, although bearing in mind that most of our pupils have a very low level of English, we have to encourage them somehow because I am sure they can do it.
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