My First Class at Advanced English I!

The part of the lesson that went well was the Grammar explanation phase because I explained the present perfect tense. It was easy for me because I have a lot of activities related with that structure and I also have experience teaching it. Something really important is that the students already know this tense because they studied it when they were taking Intermediate English II. This means that I was just making a review of the tense.

My class was much better that what I expected that is why, I do not have exactly a part of the lesson that had gone not so well. I developed a reading activity which let me tell you that its content is really interesting because it describes some questions that scientists can´t answer; just look at the title “The Questions That Stump the Scientists”. I used this reading to introduce the grammar structure because it has many sentences in the present perfect tense. My tutor teacher gave me a new idea that I can use in the post-reading stage. He told me that after asking the students to underline all the sentences that have the structure to be studied, I can ask them to write the sentences on the board in that way, the students get more involved in the activity.
I don´t have problems giving directions to the students because their level of English permits them understand perfectly what I say.
I noticed that the activity in which they were very involved was in some sentence strips I asked them to order and to write them in their notebooks. I made four groups and I gave each group an envelope which contained two long sentences cut into pieces.
This time, I had no problems with the timing because this group of students worked very well and they do it as fast as they can. That is something I love from advanced English students.
I liked the warm-up activity and I observed that the students enjoyed it a lot. I asked them to make two lines, one in front of the other so that, they had to have one classmate in front of them. I asked them to look carefully at the student that was in front of them. Then, they had to turn in order to be back to back. At this time, I asked them to change two things (an earring, ring, wallet, etc). When they said “ready” they turned again to be face to face in order to guess what the classmate had changed. The students were using the present perfect tense without noticing it, and they were having fun because later, I asked them to change more things, at the end, they were kind of worried because they did not know what to change.
In conclusion, I just can say that I liked this class and that my first experience at Advanced English was really nice!!!
(Sorry if I made you read a lot. It was for you to remember when you were taking literature!).