MY LAST TEACHING PRACTICUM!!!

Tuesday, November 13th, 2012

Today, I started my last class at this level by developing a guessing game in which I formed two groups and called one representative per each team. After this, I asked the members of the two groups to help their representatives to guess some words I wrote on the board related to inventions. After, the representative guessed the name of the invention, he/she had to say a sentence using the “used to” structure.

EXAMPLE:

INVENTION: The internet

REPRESENTATIVE: before the internet, people used to send letters to communicate with other people.

Then, the group with more correct answers was the winner.

After this, I introduced the topic regarding the used of “used to” and the differences when it is applied as a verb or as an adjective. I provided some examples and the main characteristics of its use. Later, I gave the learners some pieces of paper containing exercises in which they had to use the correct form of “used to”, and classify if it was being used as an adverb or as an adjective.

My last activity consisted of forming couples so that each pair could discuss some questions about things or activities they used to do. After discussing the questions, I asked each couple to report what their partners had told them. Everybody was eager to participate and they did it correctly. To conclude my last teaching practicum, I asked my tutor teacher to take some pictures with the whole group!