The part of the lesson that I liked was the grammar explanation phase because the students were studying the use of "there is" and "there are". It was very nice because the students had studied this when they were taking Basic English. This helped them to reinforce what they are already knew about the topic. I was just presenting the grammar and they could remember most of it that is why they were even making sentences orally.
I think that the part that did not go so well was the presentation stage because just five students had the books, and they were suppossed to read a short paragraph in order to answer some questions. I think that in this case, we can ask them to make copies from the part of the book we are going to use (but be careful because it is the student´s responsibility to buy the books!).
Fortunately, as I explained before,they did not have problems with the grammar phase because that was something they already could work with.
I brought different pictures in order to help the students understand the content which was about the different kinds of houses (ville, cottage, mansion, ranch, etc.)and the things we find there.
The part that engaged them the most was the grammar phase because they were sharing all what they knew about the grammar being studied, and they were also providing examples about their homes.
The students were working in pairs because I asked to talk about the different homes, and they were also working in groups because as I said before few students had the books so, they were sharing them.
If I teach that lesson again, I will try to be sure if they already have the books in order to find a way to make them work on it because today, I had to make big groups.
This was my first class at the Intermediate English I, and I liked it!
