Natalia Klein conducted a practicum teaching English class at Escuela Secundaria Cet 24. She taught the verb "to be" in positive and negative forms and new jobs vocabulary. The students engaged well with flashcards and an activity guessing the topic of an article. While the students struggled at times to understand English explanations, they worked hard and asked questions. In the future, Natalia will plan fewer activities to allow more time.

1. Name: Klein, Natalia Soledad.
DNI: 29.251.267.
Practicum Period : Third.
Escuela Secundaria Cet 24.
Class N° 1.
Topic: Verb To be (positive-negative) and Jobs. (revision of topics asked by the teacher)
Date: 5th June, 2015
The class started at 8.10 in the morning. The students received me perfectly. The
teacher gave me some pieces of advice and she sat at the back of the classroom. She helped
me with the video since I had to film the first class. She was very friendly in doing it. I
prepared the class to teach new jobs and revise the verb to be (positive-negative forms). I
brought flashcards contrasting the positive and negative forms of the singular verb to be.
The students understood the idea of the activity and they paid special attention to the
pictures and the sentences. They practiced the verb to be orally making sentences with
people from Río Colorado. I tried to correct the pronunciation of the jobs. The students
tried to do their best.
Then, I tried to make them guess what the article was about through phrases and
extracts from the article. The guessing strategy worked very well and it encouraged them to
speak in English. When they read the article, they could confirm or deny their
expectations. Finally, I taught the students the negative form of the verb “to be”. It is new
for them. I wrote positive examples from the article on the board and they helped me to
write them into the negative forms. They learned the negative forms perfectly.
The only problem was that they couldn´t follow me explaining in English, I had to
use Spanish at timesduring the class in order to help them understand me. They made
sentences using people from Río Colorado as they did in the previous classes with their
teacher. During the class the students worked very well and they asked doubts about the
verb to be and the pronunciation of some jobs. I walked around the classroom, monitoring
their progress.
I had prepared three activities and the closure of the class but I could do only two
activities. Fortunately, I could check all the activities the students had done and they
finished the lesson with all the activities checkedon the board. In my following lesson plans
I will have to plan only two activities because the students took too much time to do the
activities. I will continue bringing flashcards because I could call their attention all the
time while I was explaining and they participated during the class.