First class! (Intermediate I level)

September 11th, 2012

In spite of having teaching several times until now, I felt kind of nervous in this class. I think it was because I was with new students, new level, and it was my first class; nevertheless, everything was carried out as I had planned it. I started with a warm up related to clothing items and frequency adverbs. First, I made two groups which had to help their respective representatives that were at the front to guess some pictures related to clothing items. After the first representative guessed the clothing items; he/she had to say a sentence using the clothing item and a frequency adverb.

Later, I explained the grammar part regarding the use of frequency adverbs after the verb “to be”, and before main verbs of sentences. Everybody understood very well because I clarified it as simple as possible. Then, I formed some groups and gave them some exercises in which they had to identify when to use a frequency adverb after the verb “to be”, or before the main verbs of the sentences. Everybody worked really well and finished on time. To conclude my class, I worked on some exercises from the students’ book and checked them all together.