My Sixth Class

After having done the controlled and semi-controlled activities, I continued with the free practice. The grammar issue was relative clauses, and the topic was culture, but I decided to conclude the class with a free practice in which students could show me how they managed relative clauses, so the activity I include was “A Perfect Person”. To introduce the activity, I wrote down on the board that phrase and asked students to pay attention. As an example, I started to describe a perfect person for me, so I said “A perfect person for me is someone who has dreams and goals; also, this person should be someone who works or studies hard. Therefore, this person should be someone who wants to build a better future for us and enjoys life by traveling around the world.” Then, I asked them to discuss with the person next to them about their perfect or favorite people. After some minutes of discussion, I invited students to pass to the front and to talk about their perfect people. In order to make the activity funnier, I wrote down a number on a piece of paper and asked students for that number, so the student who guessed the number had to pass. In addition, everyone participated in this activity.

In this activity, I wanted to evaluate students´ understandings about relative clauses, so I could notice that they understood the grammar part correctly. Besides, I think that to describe a person they want or wish is a good idea when developing this grammar because they can use easily the relative clauses and also simple present as a practice. Also, I am sure that this activity helped me to increase rapport and self-confidence because students felt free of telling us what they really want and I believe that it was because I also let them know my wishes since the very beginning, so I transmitted motivation through my example. Also, as they are teenagers, they enjoyed the activity because most of them were talking about their girlfriend/boyfriend. For instances, they were telling things as:

“A perfect person for me is someone who gives me chocolate, loves me, and protects me.”

“A perfect person for me is someone who gives me money.”

“A perfect person for me is someone who respects me as I am; someone who wants to follow their dreams; a person who also loves me and threats me specially.”

            Regarding to my vision towards future classes, I would like to include more situation instead of having just one situation. Also, it will be a good idea to use this activity as a guessing because there are many situations in which this can be applied; for example:

1.      My favorite person is someone who kisses me, hugs me, loves me…

2.      My favorite instrument or thing is something that allows me to chat with…

3.      My favorite food is something that tastes spacy…

4.      Something that really makes me laugh is …

Next time I teach this lesson, I can also take into account this grammar for describing people; for instance:

1.      A real friend is someone who is always with me in bad and good situations…

2.      An honest person is someone who never…

3.      A good teacher is someone who…

4.      An excellent father/mother is someone who …

To finish up, I will include these new ideas in my future classes or the next time I teach this lesson because I have a new outlook of this grammar point, and these ideas can be better and useful for students to understand the matter.