Third Hot Reflection Third Period

Describe It was around 11:10 a.m., and I was giving my last teaching practicum to students from the diplomado. I had to teach the modals “should and ought to.” This time I want to focus my attention on a speaking activity I included in the lesson. I gave students some pieces of paper with some problems. The problems were about being a teacher, studying English, the use of cellphones in the class and things like those because I tried to contextualize the activity with the problems they could face in their jobs for making it more interesting for them. They were assigned to work in pairs in a mingle activity because I had noticed that they really liked to work in that way. Then, they had to change partner. The point with the activity was that they practiced the modals I taught in the grammar part because I think that they could practice a lot with that activity. At the end of the class, I could achieve my objective because they enjoyed the activity, and they practiced in a correct way the use of those modals expressing their own ideas, and they felt identified with the problems because they were giving real suggestions. Moreover, they were asking for real advice because they really focused their attention on the problems they sometimes have in their jobs.
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Interpret	Generalize
Including mingle activities was important because students had the opportunity to practice with their classmates and they really liked to share their ideas in that way. Speaking activities are necessary in the classroom because students need to practice the target language. Moreover, they increase their confidence when they produce the language. Contextualizing the activities for making them more attractive for the students is really necessary because they enjoy practicing the target language when they feel identified with the topics they discuss.	Based on what I already know about the importance of providing interactive activities, I think that students need activities in which they feel free to express their ideas without the total control of the teacher. Most of the students have difficulties when they are exposed to talk for the wholes class. I think that the only way they can feel comfortable is by practicing a lot through the speaking activities. I think that it is relevant to contextualize the activities because students need to feel comfortable with the development of the class. That is why the activities have to be about real situations or things that are related to the topic of interest of the group.	So, in the future, I will always provide mingle activities because most of the students like to participate in the activities in which they have the chance to move around the classroom to share with different people. The next time I teach this lesson, I will always include interesting speaking activities for helping my students in all the areas it includes such as pronunciation and fluency. So, in the future, I will always try to give my best with the activities I include in the lesson because I want to make interesting activities to increase students’ participation and learning.