Week 3: 6/29 & 7/1

This week I really got into the swing of things with Soraya and the class. Our team- teaching was much more natural, and I was much more comfortable with the portion of the class that I teach. Before we began the class, Soraya told me that her one suggestion for me was to not stick so strictly to the exercises in the book, and to vary a little bit when I review with the class. When we went over the reading chapter in True Stories, I did an impromptu exercise that turned into a mini lesson on pronunciation. This was the first time since I stopped teaching high school that I was in total charge of the class, teaching a lesson that I made up myself. I had forgotten how much fun I have when I teach, and I really liked the experience. A couple of students voiced their concern that pronunciation was giving them the most trouble so far in the acquisition process, and they asked me to find websites for them to help them practice pronunciation. Another student then asked with help identifying irregular verbs in the past tense. Soraya then asked if I could make a worksheet for students to help them with the problem. I asked the student to clarify, because making a worksheet with every irregular verb out there would be an extremely long worksheet. The student said she wanted help with all the verbs, but luckily Soraya told her there were way too many to list. She asked that I make a "top 10" type list for the students, creating sentences for some of the most common irregular verbs in the English language. That tasks sounded a little more manageable than the first task mentioned..