The trainee taught her first English lesson to a 6th grade class. She was nervous about the timing but the lesson went well with the help of technology like a projector and CD player. The students participated enthusiastically in warmup and picture description activities. The trainee worked to ensure all students had a chance to speak and respected each other. While most of the class involved teacher-student interaction, the next lesson will include more pair work. The assistant teacher's feedback was helpful, like suggestions to revise drawings to help students remember and use the board more. Overall the dynamic lesson engaged students through questions, reading, and a listening activity, though running short of time prevented the production part. The trainee was pleased students did their

1. PRACTICE II, DIDACTICS OF ELT and Practicum
Primary School level. Adjunto Regular a/c Prof.
Estela N. Braun (2018). Teacher Assistants: Prof.
Vanesa Cabral and Prof. Maria Lis Luján Ramos.
REGISTER:
TRAINEE: Belén de la Cruz
SCHOOL: Nº 180- Mariano Moreno - 6th Year C
MENTOR TEACHER: Prof. Joana Herrán
DATE: 28/08/2018 – 16:50 TO 17:30
I admitthat I was worriedabout the timingbecause we onlyhave around25minuteseach
classas it is the lastone of the school timetable.Ihadprepareda lessonwithaprojectoranda
CD playerandI was afraidthat technologydoesnotfunctionproperly buteverythingwas
successful.
There were noabsentsandthe grouprecognizedthe routine tostartthe Englishlesson,thenI
introducedVanesaandwe continuedwithourlesson.Aspartof the warmup activity,a
volunteercompletedthe calendarandall the groupparticipated.
As regardsplanning,the studentsshowedenthusiasmaboutthe pictures - presentedwiththe
projector- and howto describe them.Althoughtheywere verynoisy,all of themwantedto
share so I namedeachone and askedthemto take turns – in thiswayI triedto show themto
respectthe other. Some of themare shyto speakinEnglishbutI motivatedthemrepeating
and recastingtoimprove theirlanguage andforthisisalsoimportantthat everyone listens
his/herclassmate.
Althoughmostof the classthere was teacher-studentinteraction,the lastactivitywasinpair-
workand we couldmake it the nextclassbecause we were runout of time.
Studentsworkedwiththe bookandthose whodidnothave it I deliveredphotocopies,soall of
themcouldwork.As Vanesasuggested,Ishouldrevisethe drawingbecause itwouldhelp
themto rememberandalsoclearup forthose whohad photocopies. Anothersuggestionwas
to use more the board and I will tryto checkactivities,homeworkortoassignitusingthe
board.
The lessonwasverydynamic,afterthe routine,we checkedhomeworkandthenwe worked
withthe projectorandtheyproduceda nice oral practice. Theywere involvedwiththe
questionsabouttheirbreakfastincontrastto the onesshowedinthe pictures. Afterthat,they
were askedtoread silentlyashortparagraph and thentheydid a listeningactivityonthe
book.There wasno problemwiththe listeningandthe activitywas appealingastheyhadto
tickthe fooditemstheyheard.AsIrealizedthatwe didn’thave time todothe productionpart
of the lessonIdecidedtoassignhomeworkinthe book.
As the bell rangit wasa chaos (as VanesasuggestedIshouldhave writtenthe activityonthe
board) and all of themstartedto pick uptheirschool objectsto queue upand I deliveredthem

2. PRACTICE II, DIDACTICS OF ELT and Practicum
Primary School level. Adjunto Regular a/c Prof.
Estela N. Braun (2018). Teacher Assistants: Prof.
Vanesa Cabral and Prof. Maria Lis Luján Ramos.
a bookmark to use and tickhomework.Ithinkitwas a nice ideabecause nextclasswhenwe
checkedit,all of themopenedtheirbooksandIsaw the bookmarkersandsurprisinglyall of
themhad done the activity assigned.
Regardingsmile,Ididsmile inclassbutIwas nervousdue toVanesa’sobservation.Anyway,I
try everylessontoshowIreallycare for themand I heardeveryanecdote - mostof them
relatedtothe topic - theywant to share as a way to create a good rapport,and alsoit is
necessarybecause itmayhelpyouto encourage themtouse the secondlanguage.Inrelation
to my positiontowardsthe class,Iwasconcernedaboutthe projectorso I turneditoff and
thenI usedthe CD playersoI was dependingonthe technologydisplaysbecauseIdidnot
wantto somethinghappentothem.

3. PRACTICE II, DIDACTICS OF ELT and Practicum
Primary School level. Adjunto Regular a/c Prof.
Estela N. Braun (2018). Teacher Assistants: Prof.
Vanesa Cabral and Prof. Maria Lis Luján Ramos.