Second Record of Work

     To start this reflection task is mainly to specify that the strategy used in this activity was called Picture Method, which was applied to learners from 7^thgrade section D, who are between 12 to 13 years old and their proficiency level is beginners, in the Cecilio Acosta highschool. This activity was based on “Identifying People” as grammatical point; in which the teacher asked to learners to form a semi-circle in front of her. She would choose a learner without any specific order and she would show him/her a flash card about occupation and the rest of the students did not have to see the flash card showed to the classmate. Then, the partner had to represent the occupation on the flash card by mimics, without saying any word. So, the rest of the class had to guess the occupation represented by the student. The aim of this activity was to teach new vocabulary and the time established for this one was fifteen (15) minutes.

To continue the class, the teacher gave a brief explanation of the content using a chart, also recycling words that they had learnt in sessions before. For that, she used the whiteboard and markers. The strategy was developed in thirty (30) minutes, and its goal was to reinforce vocabulary as well as formulating sentences using the verb To Be.

     For finishing the session, there was applied another activity called Running Stations, in which learners had to form four groups of three people. At first, they had to select a runner, a listener and a writer. After, when they had selected the role for each one of every group, the runner should run toward a station and read the occupation flash card put in every station around the classroom, later he/she had to come back to the group to tell to the listener the word read in the station. At second time, the listener should say the word heard by the runner’s mouth to the writer and this one had to write it on a piece of paper. At the end of the activity, the three people had to write a sentence each one of them and finally they had to read the sentence created by them. In the same way, as in the sessions given before, this strategy had forty (40) minutes to be set, besides the aim of this was that learners practiced the listening, writing and oral skills.

     In this case, me as the teacher I consider that there was a huge difference in my classes taking into comparison among classes given some years ago, because I observed the students could participate more, they were active and motivated to the class, they were all almost involved in the development of the class.

     However, I consider that I still need to modify some aspect about my teaching practice that includes the time established for each activity it has to be more exactly, because I tend to lose time waiting for learners organize, moreover there are a few students who do not want to participate in the activities, besides I think the last activity applied (running stations) was so long for the time established.