third lesson day ( implementing unitat didactica)

Third  day  implementing my Unitat didactica…….This was last Thursday , the first Thursday of April  it all started very early with a telephone call from Montse my tutor at the IES Thalassa to tell me that she had to go to Funeral and as I didn´t to prolongue my time dedicated to my practicum I told her I was going there anyway , last February with the teachers strike , my son being sick and then the final year excursion I had gotten behind time wise. So I told her that I would speak to 4 th graders´ tutor Ana since we usually bumped into each other at the teachers room.I didn´t have to wait to long once I had arrived to school: there was Ana and before I said anything she was already telling me there wouldn´t be any problem because she was going to talk to them prior to my lesson. And so she did .But I must talk or write about some of the things we talked about because I think I helped me to realized that delivering an English lesson in English is all very good in theory but that depends on the crowd and I mean the group of people or students ……And in this case I had been doing the class in English and they didn´t know I spoke Spanish and catalan and because of what   I had sensed on my last lesson given some disruptive behaviour problems I had with the first group of la ESO  I told Ana I thought I would be better if I  let them know I could understand them.I put it in practice and I think it was better or at least broke some of the ice . The tutor of course talked to them before the lesson some of the most problematic kids were not that day which it helped so I could finish what I had started last week  with the past perfect, besides I wanted to have a different approach a more human one with the group because I sensed some antagonism at my explaining the grammar lesson in English , not that I don´t believe in teaching a language within the language context and delivering explanations in the language which is being taught, but it certainly helped not with the discipline problems  to eradicate them but at least the class went a lot smoother than last occasion.With the other group I just did exactly same plus given the agreeable quality of the group we had time to play noughts and crosses in English practicing asking questions and using the right verbs , they loved apparently…………… the game is basically tres en raya but you can use it to practice just any vocabulary set of words or grammar estructure : you divide the class in two teams , crosses and noughts and them in each box there is a word , so they choose the box and use the word within a sentence , question or for example if the word is a irregular verb they changed into past tense and use it to make a sentence and so it goes until one of the teams makes tres en raya.