PRACTICE REPORT: COUNTRIES AND NATIONALITIES.

REPORT

PRACTICE 1

The English class was given on October 27th 2010 in the  1st grade group “A” in the school Secundaria Federal No. 1 Presidente Cárdenas during the afternoon turn. The correspondent class was about “Nationalities and countries” and the objective was students to be able  to talk about some countries and nationalities in English by the end of the lesson.

Pre-listening :

Objective: To generate previous ideas about the topic

Based on previous knowledge of students through a brainstorming in which they presented some names about countries they already knew in English and Spanish such as China, Spain, Mexico, Germany and so forth; also they mentioned some nationalities like: Mexican, French and Japanese. This activity was really useful for me in order to identify how much they know about the topic and also it contributed to the development of the class.

Main Activity “My English Class”

Objective: To introduce students to the topic using a text for developing the activity.

The main activity was initially through a descriptive text that was related to different nationalities and physical description of the characters. The title was “My English class” and it was composed by big attractive images in a power point presentation. This activity was focused in order to active the listening of students with the purpose they could notice about the pronunciation and consequently inferred the functions of the sentences.  

After that, I presented the activity entitled  “Famous people and nationalities” that consisted on presenting an European and American map. As first step, I used an image of a famous person and asked:   “Who is he/she?”. Then I showed it to the students in order they tell me who he/she was –in English or Spanish- and then I asked them:  “Where is he/she from?” and they tried to tell me where he/she was from according to what they knew. E.g., the first picture I showed was Milla Jovovich, so they gave me the name and the country she was from, with this I could start asking questions and the way to anwer them, it means: “Where is she from?” “She is from Russia; she is Russian”. Students repeated this information with every picture I showed.

Finally, I showed the picture only and pointed out the country in the maps and they answered in chorus according to the person (he, she o they), the country or the nationality demanded.

Evaluation

The activity for evaluation consisted in giving to each student a small card in which in one side had the flag of a country –already seen- and in the other side some physical characteristics of the people who lived there. This activity was designed to work in pairs in order students to interact and share the information given using those small cards. However, because of the time I had to change the activity. I was showing the cards in front and I gave the participation to the student. In this way, I could take advantage of the time and I got majority of students were evaluated. Likewise, I could do all students got involved in the class, it is, everybody answered in chorus without giving specific participation.

I consider in this class students were willing to participate and interact with their partners.