My third and last entry of this period!

My last class with the intermediate group. As always I started the class by greeting them, and then I continued with the warm up. The name of the warm up was “sentence race” and as I had to continue teaching “the passive voice” I divided the class in two groups, and then I gave them a series of sentences in the active voice. They had to change the sentences from active to passive. After it, I was going to read the sentences. When they listened to the sentence they had gotten, they had to pass to the board and write the sentence into the passive voice to get a point.  The first student who finished to write the sentence in the right form got a point for their group. During the activity most of the students did it well, but I have some problems. One of the students did not want to participate and I did not know what to do in that moment so I continued with the activity. During the feedback, the teacher told me I had to encourage them to participate, and if the student did not want to participate I had to try with someone else. Another problem I had during this activity was that one of the markers, that the students were using to write the sentences, did not work well however the activity continued because the teacher lent me one of her markers. Then, I gave them a short paragraph but this time they had to change it from passive to active. As a final activity, they had to work in trios and create a radio bulletin using the passive voice. Every trio could choose from five different topics. After they finished to write the bulletin, I chose some of them to share it with whole the class. Finally, as this was my last class with them I thanked them because of his participation and because they were a really nice group.