My experience as a Teacher with Teenagers.

I want to share a little bit of my experience, so let's start!

The first day, I was very nervous! I didn't want to enter, but I had to. They were asking to Teacher Ani, who were us and what were we doing there, and we introduced ourselves. Then, everything started. I really like the group of students in which I worked, I had the opportunity to observe some of the characteristics that we studied at the beginning, like shyness,(in some of them) they were afraid of make a mistake in front of their classmates,however, many of  them were outgoing and hardworking, they really wanted to participate in all the activities. I really felt accepted for them even, some of them had the confidence to tell me a lit of bit of their lives and I think that have a good relationship with our students it's something essential for our work.

I had the opportunity to teach 4 complete lessons, 2 vocabulary lesson and 2 grammar lesson, but many times, I participated in little activities like, encounter and fluent use.
The first time that I performed a class, I was happy, exited, and, very nervous, but through the time, that disappear during the class and a the end, I could teach a lesson without that feeling. I didn't have problem to work with them, they respect me and saw me as their teacher, even when I look like one of them ( a student more), On the other hand, I notice that I need to memorize many words because they had questions about the meaning of words all the time.

as a negative aspects. I think that the biggest problem that I had was the time, maybe because the content that we needed to cover was too much and we didn't had enough time to make all the activities that we wanted, but we try to do it in the best way. On the other hand, as a positive aspects from that experience I had the experience and guide of Teacher Yanira Peña who helped me every time that I had a doubt, I had the help and the real-life example of my mentor Teacher Ani Molina. On the other hand, The group of students that I had were unique, they were friendly,, respectful and hardworking and I had the help of my  good colleague T.A.Abi. I'm very grateful for all the help that I received.

I really enjoyed my experience, I feel proud of myself because I improve many thing and I learned many things more, but never is enough, I know that I have to continue working hard for what I want, I think that we leave a mark in our students and that is the reason for what teaching is a beautiful profession 

Our amazing mentor, Teacher Ani.

My good colleague T.A. Abi 

Class #9 Last class! - Observation.

Saturday, November 05th 2016

7:30am - 11:30am

This time, we had the opportunity to observe a class of our mentor teacher Ani.

Activity #1. "Handman"

T.Ani made 2 groups, she drew lines base on the quantity of letters that the word had, (all the words were adjectives of personality) students had to guess the word. each group had 2 opportunities to said a letter or the word if they had an idea of it, if they said a letter that was wrong, T.Ani wrote it in one side of the board, but if they said a right letter they had one more chance.

I had to say that it was different from the way that I knew it, but I really like the way in which T.Ani did it, because, she had control of all her students, also, I could notice that she gave chance to the students who never participate in activities because they are shy or afraid to make mistakes in that way  everybody were participating.

Activity #2. Vocabulary- Adjectives of personality.

Teacher explained the meaning of each adjective that she presented in the previous game, then she asked to students to go to a page from the text book to practice by doing some exercises.Then, they compare and discuss the answers with the whole class.

T.Ani explained very well the meaning of each word, she model and made gestures and mimics to have everything clear. To be honest, that's something that I need to improve.

Activity #3. Listening.

Students listened to an audio to complete an exercise from the text book, they compared and shared answer with the whole class.

T.Ani had some problems with the audio, she couldn't find her flash driver, but fortunately, TA.Abi had the audio in her flash driver.so she helped to T.Ani. I could notice that, students were asking about the meaning of some adjectives that they didn't seen in the game, I think that the content in the book it's very useful but sometimes it's too much information and it's difficult to cover everything.

Note: It was a good class, however, many things could happen as the problem that T.Ani had, but as teacher we need to be prepare and try to do everything that we can do to continuous our class, because the most important thing it's that our students learn something new.

PROJECTS

Students presented their projects in which they had to create a talk show about superheroes, using grammar structures like can/can't and comparatives and superlatives. They were very creative with their customs and they did a really good job!

OUR FAREWELL

We finish our practice with teenagers, after 10 Saturdays we had to say goodbye to our students and mentor teacher, We expressed our gratitude for their help and we have to them Little presents to say "thank you"

I really appreciated my students they are unique and we learned so much from our mentor teacher Ani she is amazing. I really enjoyed that experience, I learned so much and I improve many things and I hope to improve even more.

Class #8 - Observation

Saturday, October 29th,2016

7:30am - 11:30am

T.A Abi started the class.

Activity #1. Form the word.

Students made 2 groups, T.A.Abi gave to each group a plastic cup which had pieces of papers with letters. T.A. Abi said a number and students had to form a word with the number of letters that she mentioned.

That was a good activity because unconsciously, students use vocabulary from the previous classes.

Activity #2. Fruit salad.

Students moved their desks to make a big circle. T.A. Abi explained the game.  Each students had the name of a fruit, "cherry,orange or apple" one students was standing up in the middle of the circle while the others were siting down in their desks, the students in the middle had to say a fruit like "orange" and all the students who had the name "orange" had to change place and the student who was standing up had to look for a sit too. and the person who didn't find a sit had to answer a question and continue with the game. but if someone said the phrase "fruit salad" everybody had to move.

FIRST CONDITIONAL.

To make a little review T.A. Abi gave to students a little worksheet in which they had to complete a text using will.

T.A.Abi pasted on the board some pages with grammatical structures and examples to explain first conditional his use and rules, then she gave some examples and she asked to some students to give some examples. Then, to practice,  students wrote 3 sentences using first conditional.

Activity #3. Speaking activity.

T.A. Abi asked to students to make  pairs to create a short conversation using first conditional.

Note: It was a good class,I really like the game fruit salad, students review and had fun at the same time, I really like the materials that T.A .Abi use, they always are very colorful.

TALENT SHOW

Students had a talent show which was an activity to show their progress in the program and have fun, I really like all the presentations.

Class #7 - Participation

Saturday, October 22th, 2016

7:30am - 11:30am

This time I taught a grammar lesson.

Activity#1. What do you prefer?

I pasted on the board an strip of paper with the question "what do you prefer?
Then I wrote a short list of things among which they could choose.:

-Burger King's burgers or Wendy's burgers

-Drink coffee or chocolate

- sleep or eat.

They discussed the question to share opinions, them they share opinions with the whole class.

Activity #2. Guess the word.

I pasted on the board,some strips of paper with scrambled words. Students had to look the letters and try to guess what were the words.

The words were adjectives of quality. 

Comparatives and Superlatives Adjectives.

I asked to the students what they know about the topic, then I explained grammar structures of comparatives and superlatives adjectives, and I gave some examples. also, I asked to them to give more examples.

Activity #3. Sentences and Awards.

I asked to students to take a look of their classmates to write 2 sentences using comparatives adjectives and superlatives adjectives. Then, I asked to them to make a "Diploma" for a person in the classroom using superlatives adjectives. then, I made a little ceremony to deliver diplomas.

NOTE: I couldn't finish the class again, because students had to go to a place in the university to look some presentations.

Then was the turn of T. Any.

Activity #1. Review

T. Any showed to her students some adjectives, she asked to them, the superlative and comparative form of each verb, in order to make a little review of the previous topic.

Activity #2. work in the text book.

T. any gave to them a page with exercises about all the contents of the unit 5 to make a review, she completed the exercises with them.

WILL AND WON'T

T.Any. explained the use of will and won't to make predictions about the future, then she asked to students to make sentences to make predictions about the future using some of those phrases:

I think that...

I imagine that...

I'm pretty sure that... 

I bet that...

then, some of them read their sentences to the whole class.

Note: I really like the behavior of the students during the class, they show interest to learn  more and they are really exited to participate in the activities.

Class # 6 - Observation.

Saturday, October 15th, 2016

7:30am - 11:30am

T. A. Abi Started the class.

Activity #1. Mimics.

Students made a circle in front of the board. Some students went in front of board to make mimics and the rest of the students had to guess what was the action.

Students were very exited to participate in that activity.

Activity #2. What are you good at?

T. A. Abi. pasted the question "what are you good at?" in the board. Students looked for a partner to discuss the question, then some of them share their answers with the whole class.

SKILLS AND PEOPLE

T.A.Abi. showed some pictures about people doing activities. Students helped her saying what was the verb base on the actions that they saw in the mimics. Then, T.A Abi presented some verbs and pictures and she asked to some students to take a picture and paste it next to the right verb.T. A. Abi explained to student that some verbs becomes in nouns by adding the suffix "ER" a the end.

Activity #3. Text book.

T.A.Abi asked to students to go to a page from the student's book to work in some exercises. then, students compare answers and T.A Abi check answers with the whole class. 

After that class was the turn of Teacher Ani. 

Activity #1.  Write a word.

Teacher Any divided the board in 3 parts and she wrote the word "activities". Students made 3 groups to form a line in front of the board. Students had to write a verb or an adjective under each letter of that word.

CAN, CAN'T / COULD, COULDN'T

then, students wrote some exercises using can and can't, then they shared those sentences with their classmates.

Students were really exited to show what they can do. I could notice that some students made questions about the use of  "could" as a modal and Teacher explained the differences.

Activity #2. find the opposite.

T. showed some papers with adjectives of quality like: weird, slow, wild. Students went to the board take one adjective they had to look for the opposite of the adjective that they had. for example:  good-bad, big-small, fast-slow... etc. Then Teacher explained the meaning of each adjective.

Students were very curious, they want to know the words and many of them  I would like to do this activity, I think that it's useful to introduce or practice new vocabulary.

Class #5 - Participation.

Saturday, October 01st, 2016

7:30am - 11:30am

This time we had to make a review from the units 3 and 4 because students had their final exam of that module.

T.A. Abi started the class.

Activity #1. Guess who I am.

Students made 2 lines facing each other, each student had a piece of paper with an adjective, like upset, scary and others. This  was great activity to review vocabulary.

Activity #2. Strings of words.

Students made 2 lines in front of the word. T.A. Abi said a word, and students had to write that word in the board and write another word that begins withe the last letter of the previous word. for example, she said: "House" students had to write that "house" and another word that begins with "e"

like this: 

                    Houselephantiredraworkeyellow...

Activity #3, Guess.

T.A. Abi pasted on the board a poster that had 4 answers of questions in simple past, students had to guess what was the question.
for example: "yes, I went to the school yesterday" the questions is " Did you go to the school yesterday?"

Activity #4. Listen and complete.

T.A.Abi played an audio. Students had to listen the audio and try to complete an exercise in the text book. they listened the audio 3 times.

After the break, it was my turn. I had to continuous with a review from the unit 4.

Activity #1. Did you do the homework?

I wrote in the board the question " Did you do the homework?" and I asked to students to talked to the person next to them and ask the question.they had to say why they didn't do the homework.

Activity #2. Check the answers.

Due to the last class, I couldn't finish my lesson, students had to complete 2 exercises from the student book as a homework to practice at home.

Review: Simple Past & Past Continuous.

I made a little review of the Simple Past and Past Continuous and I made a little practice with some sentences in which students had to identify in where they could use "when" and "while".

for example: 

we were having the picnic when it started to rain.

while we were having the picnic, it started to rain.

Activity #4. Write faster.

Students made 3 groups and made 3 lines in front of the board. I showed to them a word  like: "into" they had to write a sentence in simple past or past continuous using that word. This activity was useful to practice vocabulary.

Activity #5. Text book.

I played an audio about a conversation and n the text book were 3 different pictures, students had to guess what was the picture that describes the situation in the conversation. Then, students had to complete a grammar exercise.

FINAL EXAM

Students took their final exam from the units 3 and 4. 

Note: One more time, we didn't have enough time to end our lessons, but I think we use as many activity as we could to help to our students we their exam.

Class #4 - Participation.

Saturday, September 24th 2016

7:30am - 11:30am

This time, it was the turn of my colleague  T.A Abi with a vocabulary lesson.

Activity #1.Guessing game.

Students made groups, each groups had pieces of papers with lettres, T. A. Abi made mimics and gestures about the prepositions of movements that they studied the last class: over, under, into, through... etc. by using a box and a ball. Students had to use the pieces of papers with lettres to form the prepositions that they studied the last class.

It was a good activity, students likes activities in which they have to compete.

Activity #2. What were you doing during the week?

Students made groups to discuss the question "What were you doing during the week?

Activity #3. Descriptions.

Some students past in front of the board to take a picture of places of El Salvador. Students had to say somecharacteristics of those places.

GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES.

T. A. Abi presented pictures about famous places around the world like: Niagara falls, The Sahara Desert, The Rocky Mountains, etc.. She taught the pronunciation of the words.

Activity #4. Listen and complete.

T.A. Abi. played and audio. the first time, students had to guess how many people were talking, and the second time they will have to complete an exercise from the text book.they compare answers with the whole class.

Activity #5. Speaking activity. 

T.A. Abi. gave to students a piece of paper with the name of a place around the world, Students had to talk about that place.

After the class of my colleague, it was my turn with a grammar lesson.

Activity #1. What was your favorite TV show when you were a child?

I wrote on the board the question "what was your favorite TV show when you were a child?

Students asked to the person next to them the question, then, some of them share their answers with the whole class.

Activity #2. Read and Identify.

I pasted on the board a poster with a short story in simple past and past continuous, I asked to students to identify the tense of the verbs in the story, This activity was for introduce the topic.

SIMPLE PAST & PAST CONTINUOS

I pasted some paper pages with the structures of simple past and past continuos, I explained the differences between both and their rules.  I emphasized the use of "when clauses" with simple past and "while clauses" with past continuos. then we practice with some exercises.

 Activity #3. Scrambled words.

Students made groups of 5; I gave to each group an envelope which had pieces of papers with words, Students had to form different sentences using the structures that were presented in class.This activity was useful to practise grammar structures.

PROJECTS.

This was an evaluated activity. Students worked in pairs to create a story about an amazing trip that they did in vacation, using simple past and past continuous.. They were very creative showing their stories with pictures and drawings.They presented their stories in front of the class.

They were really creative with their stories, I liked to see how much students have learned this was a good way to know it.

Note: I realized that time isn't enough. I couldn't finish my class because students had to present their projects and that was an evaluated activity, so I had to give them the chance to be prepare for their presentations for that reason, I asked to them to work in exercises from the text book as a homework.  

Class #4 - Participation.

Saturday, September 24th 2016

7:30am - 11:30am

This time, it was the turn of my colleague  T.A Abi with a vocabulary lesson.

Activity #1.Guessing game.

Students made groups, each groups had pieces of papers with lettres, T. A. Abi made mimics and gestures about the prepositions of movements that they studied the last class: over, under, into, through... etc. by using a box and a ball. Students had to use the pieces of papers with lettres to form the prepositions that they studied the last class.

It was a good activity, students likes activities in which they have to compete.

Activity #2. What were you doing during the week?

Students made groups to discuss the question "What were you doing during the week?

Activity #3. Descriptions.

Some students past in front of the board to take a picture of places of El Salvador. Students had to say somecharacteristics of those places.

GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES.

T. A. Abi presented pictures about famous places around the world like: Niagara falls, The Sahara Desert, The Rocky Mountains, etc.. She taught the pronunciation of the words.

Activity #4. Listen and complete.

T.A. Abi. played and audio. the first time, students had to guess how many people were talking, and the second time they will have to complete an exercise from the text book.they compare answers with the whole class.

Activity #5. Speaking activity. 

T.A. Abi. gave to students a piece of paper with the name of a place around the world, Students had to talk about that place.

After the class of my colleague, it was my turn with a grammar lesson.

Activity #1. What was your favorite TV show when you were a child?

I wrote on the board the question "what was your favorite TV show when you were a child?

Students asked to the person next to them the question, then, some of them share their answers with the whole class.

Activity #2. Read and Identify.

I pasted on the board a poster with a short story in simple past and past continuous, I asked to students to identify the tense of the verbs in the story, This activity was for introduce the topic.

SIMPLE PAST & PAST CONTINUOS

I pasted some paper pages with the structures of simple past and past continuos, I explained the differences between both and their rules.  I emphasized the use of "when clauses" with simple past and "while clauses" with past continuos. then we practice with some exercises.

 Activity #3. Scrambled words.

Students made groups of 5; I gave to each group an envelope which had pieces of papers with words, Students had to form different sentences using the structures that were presented in class.This activity was useful to practise grammar structures.

PROJECTS.

This was an evaluated activity. Students worked in pairs to create a story about an amazing trip that they did in vacation, using simple past and past continuous.. They were very creative showing their stories with pictures and drawings.They presented their stories in front of the class.

They were really creative with their stories, I liked to see how much students have learned this was a good way to know it.

Note: I realized that time isn't enough. I couldn't finish my class because students had to present their projects and that was an evaluated activity, so I had to give them the chance to be prepare for their presentations for that reason, I asked to them to work in exercises from the text book as a homework.  

Class #3 - Participation

Saturday 17th, September,2016

7:30 - 11:30

This time, I taught a vocabulary lesson. 

Activity #1.  How was your week?

Students made pairs and asked the question " how was your week?"each other, then, some of them shared their answers with all the class. The purpose of this activity was to review the previous knowledge that was simple past.

Activity #2. Are you a daredevil?

Daredevil: a person recklessly daring person.

I explained the meaning of  Daredevil. Then, Students asked to the person next to them the question "are you a daredevil?" many of them said " No, I'm not a daredevil" because they are afraid of heights.

Topic: Prepositions: Movements.

I showed to the students 9 prepositions: up, down, over, under, across, through, around, into, and, off. I explained their meaning of each word and their use, then, I pasted some pictures about some activities in which they had to help me to match them to the correct preposition.Then, they helped me to make some sentences base on the pictures. 

Some of the sentences were:

Bob walked around the forest.

Bob rode his bike through the forest.

Bob jumped off the helicopter.

Activity #4. Guess game.

Students made 2 groups, each group had to choose a leader. The leader had to take a little paper and make mimics in order to his group guess the prepositions that he took.

Activity  #5. My last vacations.

Students had to think in activities that they did in their last vacation and try to use the prepositions that were presented. Then, they did 2 lines facing each other to shared their experiences.they changed partner 3 times.

PLAY: "LAS DOS CARAS DE BARTOLO"

After the break, all the students from the scholarship had the opportunity of enjoy the play: " las dos caras de bartolo" by El Departamento de Arte y Cultura de la Universidad Don Bosco.

With a combination of comedy, romance and music, it' was a great play, I really enjoyed it. They did a really good job!

Note: To be honest, I was nervous, it' was the first time that I stood in front of them as their teacher, and I didn't know what would be their reaction, but I did it! I feel happy, because they helped me, they really paid me attention and they participated very well in all the activities and the most important thing they learned something new.

Class #2 Observation - Participation

Saturday 10th, September, 2016

7:30am - 11:30am

Activity #1 Review

Teacher pasted on the board some Wh-questions using the verb"be" in past form "was/were". One of those questions was "When was the last birthday in your family?" Teacher took time for let students repeat those questions and she gave her own examples.Then, Students discussed and shared their answers with everybody.

Activity #2  Milestones.

It was our turn! I wrote on the board the question:

 "What age do people usually...?

1. leave the school

2. learn to drive.

3. graduate from the University.

4. get married.

T.A Abi explained to the students the meaning of the word "milestones" and she gave some examples.Then, I explained to the students the questions and what they had to do.

Students had to make pairs and discuss those questions, thinking in what age people usually achieve those goals and giving their own opinions about what is the perfect age to do those things.Then, some of them shared their opinions with all the class.

We walked around to check how they were doing the activity and we helped them with some doubts.

Simple past tense - Irregular & Regular Verbs

Teacher wrote on  the board some verbs and she asked to the Students to help her.She explained the differences between regulars and irregulars verbs and she taught pronunciation of the verbs end in "ed".

Teacher gave to the students a list of irregular verbs. Students made 3 groups, the group 1 was with me, the group 2 was with  Teacher Ana Maria, and the group 3 was with T.A. Abi.We helped to the pronunciation of the irregular verbs. Then, Teacher asked to everybody the past form of some verbs.

Students showed interested in learning the difference between those sounds. This is someting very important, as teachers, we have to help to our students to develop this skill.

Activity #3 Role-play

what they love to do! Students had to think about what they did in the last Christmas, where they went, what they ate and etc. then, they had to perform the conversation in front of their classmates. Teacher made some observations and corrections with pronunciation.

Note: I understood that they like the role-plays because they can laugh, they like to be creative and maybe, they feel nervous when they are talking, but the feel comfortable to make mistakes, maybe because Teacher help them to feel like that. they have fun doing that.

Class #1 Firts day! Observation - Participation

Saturday, September 03rd, 2016

7:30 am -11:30 am

I was assigned to one of the groups of English for teenagers from Plaza Mundo's Program, those courses take place at Universidad Don Bosco. I share this group with another classmate who is T.A (Teacher Assistant) like me her name is Abigail. We will be supervised by a Mentor Teacher from Universidad Don Bosco her name is Ana Maria.

The students wondered  who we were and what were we doing there so, we introduced ourselves.

Activity #1. Listening activity.

Students moved their desks to be close to the mp3 player. Students listened an audio about 3 people that call their neighbors to ask for a favor. Students listened the audio 3 times. they had to recognized if where they lived, in an apartment or in a house and choose the correct answer. At the second. time they had to listen what each caller wanted and choose the correct answer.I did that activity too.

Activity #2. 

Students made 2 groups and each member of the group would be a number. they made 2 lines in front of a desks, teacher asked a question and said a number. Only the person who had that number could answer.

Activity #3.

As an introduction for the next activity, students asked each others "How good is your memory?" Students had to think and choose their answers between these:

• It's extremely good
• It's fairly good
• It's somewhat good

Many of them chose "It's fairly good"

Students made pairs, each pair had a picture,they took turns to play.they had to look the picture for 1 seconds and try to remember the objects that the picture showed. the person who remember more objects was the winner. Many of the students remember around 11 objects from the picture.they had to use the phrase "there is..." or "there are..."

Students enjoyed this activities, they describe very well the objects. I  would like to do that activity, think it's really good to review or practice vocabulary and grammar.

Adjectives and past for of the verb "to be"

Teacher presented some adjectives for describe emotions and feelings.

Teacher presented the simple past tense. she presented the past form of the verb "be" for sentences and make yes/no questions and Wh-questions by giving examples.

As a little practice, students asked each other some questions like:"were you happy yesterday?" "where were you yesterday at the morning?" they they made some exercises in the student book.

Activity #4. "The Detective"

To have fun, Teacher chose a volunteer, that person would be the detective, he had to go outside of the classroom for a moment. while, teacher and students had to choose a person to be the leader, that person had to made movements and gestures and everyone else had to do everything that the leader did. The detective had to guess who was the leader.

We played too, I think that I would  use it as a wrap-up to summarize all the content seen in class and have fun, I  liked that game, 

Activity #5. speaking activity.

Students made groups and they had to share their experiences. They had to talk about their firts day of school, their first pet, their firts kiss, and their first friend. using the past tense of the verb "be" Something interesting was that Students asked to the teacher why they didn't do any role-play, they really wanted to do it.

We walked around the classroom helping to the students with some doubts.

Note: I have to say that I really liked the attitude of the teacher, she is energetic, outgoing and she is always making jokes with her students, and they feel comfortable with her. she is very nice.On the other hand, Many of the students are always excited, they really like to participate and something that really called my attention was that they love role-play which is something weird.I really like that group.

Error Analysis - Activity

My Teacher asked me to check my last blog entries and look for mistakes that I made with spelling. I had to make a chart with 2 columns.

ERROR ANALYSIS

I wrote

I must have written

1- To be honest, it was very dificult to me learned English. 2- so I had to make a doble effort to don't fail.  3- was rejected to many people and still is 4- but that's not an barrier. 5- I had the oportunity to in a education program from the Colegio Don Bosco 6- It was difficult for me to make them have interest during the class, 7- and they pass all the morning siting in front of the board and when they had class with me,  8- but I made an effort and at the end they took their exam and finish the course. 9- were looking me, 10- I realise that the kids were more nervous than me 11- At the end of the class, I feel so happy to see that my little students feel excited to come the next class. 12- I really enjoyed teach to children 13-That was the close ceremony, 14- I have been study about the changes 15- because of our parents told us 16- extending meinly over the teen years  17- terminating 18- but they might starts 19 - dificult? 20- grain matter  21 id 22- Erick Erickson describe that 23- Erickson make a big emphasis 24- The successful completation  25- Of course I alredy pass Throught this stage 26-I didn't have to much Problems 27- was speack in public, 28- I didn't like participate 29- ic, I didn't like participate in fron of all my classmate, I could raise my hand whe the teacher ask something even, if I knew the answer.  30- always little patience 31- instead of help them to find 32- simply don't know what do. 33- Base on my own  34- with activities that involves sharing  35- I would like use activities 36- give them the chace to do it  37- teenagers enjoy be autonomous.

1. To be honest, It was very difficult for me learning English. 2. So I had to make a double effort to not fail. 3.was rejected by many people and still is 4. but that’s not a barrier. 5. I had the opportunity to be a teacher in a educational program from Colegio Don Bosco. 6.it was difficult for me to keep them interested in class. 7. and they spend all the morning sitting in front of the board and when they finally had class with me. 8. but I made an effort and finally, they took their exam and completed the course. 9. were watching me. 10. I realized that the kids were more nervous than me. 11. at the end of the class, I feel so happy to see that my little students felt exited to come to the next class. 12. I really enjoyed teaching children. 13. That was the closing ceremony. 14. I have been studying about changes.. 15. because our parents  told us. 16. extending mainly over the teen years. 17. ending. 18. but they might start. 19. difficult? 20. gray matter. 21. is. 22. Erick Erickson describes that 23. Erickson make a big emphasis 24 the successful compilation. 25. of course I already pass through this stage. 26. I didn’t have too much problems. 27. was speak in public. 28. I didn’t like to participate. 29. I didn’t like to participate in front of all my classmate, I couldn’t raise my hand when teacher asked something even if I knew the answer. 30. always little patients. 31. instead of helping them to find. 32. simply they don’t know what to do. 33. based on my own. 34. with activities that involve sharing. 35. I would like to use 36. give them the chance to do it. 37. teenagers enjoy being autonomous.

To be honest, I feel really embarrassed because in many words I forgot to write a letter and for that my words were incomplete.Also, I have to said that I wrote blog entries very fast, because I didn't have too much time and I didn't check it.

Something that I learned is that we need to be careful, what we think in Spanish language could be not the same in English language; also, we need to take time to be sure of how we want to express our ideas, if there is a word that we don't know, or there is something that we want to say and we don't know how say it, the best choice is to research.

I think that this is an activity very useful to improve writing, students can take time to reflect in how they can  express their ideas in a right way. Also, that could help them to be curious and learn more of the language.