Intermediate

My first teaching experience this third period was with Intermediate students and I can say that I really enjoyed working with them because they were a really nice group. As an advice, the day before my class, the teacher told me to work with dynamic activities that involved students’ participation because the class was at 7 o´clock. The warm up was the first activity and it consisted in reorder some sentences that included “gerunds” and “infinitives”, and then paste it on the board in the correct order. After it, I introduced the topic about “gerunds” and “infinitives” and gave them some examples. In order to know if they had understood the topic, I asked them randomly some questions. Later, I brought a separate list of verbs that they could use only with “infinitives” or only with “gerunds” and with both of them. Then students had to create their own sentences using verbs of the list given. When they were working on it, I could notice they were having problems so at the time they shared the sentences with the whole class they have to tell me if the sentences where correct or not, and if they thought the sentences were not correct, they had to tell me why, and what was the right form of the sentence. By doing that they could help between each other. To conclude the class I asked them to make groups and get together to work in more practice.  I brought some markers and bond paper and every group had to choose a card that contained a series of verbs either to use with infinitives or with gerunds. After it, they had to write sentences and make a chart to then share them with the whole class. At the end some of them still presented problems with the pattern, but they helped each other during the feedback time of their task.