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Register No.4/7
Name of the school: Santo Toms University
Group:D7A
Date: April 17th of 2015
Place: Campus Aguas Claras
Topic: Future Forms as Will, to-be going to, Could and tobe ing.
Aim: By the end of the lesson, students will be able to talk about their future plans using several grammatical
Structures for this purpose and a wide variety of time expressions.
General Areas of Concern
Reflection
1. Lesson Planning: No Comments.
1. Well, the sponsor teacher didnt do any comment but I
do have some things to say, first, that I feel too please
2. Commitment, Responsibility and
because the fact that she doesnt do any correction or
Punctuality: No Comments.
suggestion may mean that the planning fulfills all her
expectations. Second, that I have adapted my planning
3. Classroom Management: The activity
and teaching strategies to the group and its members
whats your favorite word in English?
needs and pace.
and why so was interesting to engage
students, its quite important to make
2. The sponsor teacher didnt comment about this item, I
students think.
infer that she does so because, Im always on time and
with the staff I need to have an excellent class. Anyway, I
4. Classroom Interaction and Affective
want to reflect on what the sponsor teacher does,
Factors: Most of the class was based
because it is what we all do, we things are well done and
on speaking activities.
dont have any mistake, we simple stay quiet, why dont
we comment on the good and positive things that people
5. Pacing: The activities proposed in the
do? Do comments have to be negative thats my
lesson planning were completely done.
reflection in this case, to do much more positive
reinforce.
6. Didactic material and Resources:
Song worksheets. If you dont use hard
3. I completely agree with it, I think that activities have to
copies, try to make some PP
be focused on communicating real feelings and
presentations for your classes.
opinions, because when things are done this way,
learning becomes meaningful.
7. Methodology
and
Teaching
Techniques: Warming-up activity: listen
4. Thats the idea, students have good grammar and
to a song and complete its lyrics, drilling
vocabulary basis so it is a good idea to reinforce by
about linking words, guessing activities.
putting into practice all these raw material to produce.
Sometimes it is quite useful to show
Besides, students enjoy this, they feel the class is
pictures while introducing a new
different and that they arent studying but simple sharing
vocabulary; types of houses.
with some friends.
8. Evaluation: No Comments.

5. Thanks God, time and activities matched.

9. English in Use: Pay attention to the

pronunciation of Support, Garage and
Cottage.

6. I still believe it is a good idea to use these worksheets

with lyrics, students feel and realize you did prepare a
class and they have something to take home which will
be useful because they will re check the sheets to
practice the songs, especially if they like the proposed
songs.

10. Communication with Assessors: No

Comments.

7. I really what it feels like when classes come out the way
you expected, it convinces me more about the
importance of planning and preparing things carefully.
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8. No comments.

9. After finishing this lesson, I went checking up the

pronunciation of these three words and I have to say
that I was mistaking in the pronunciation of garage,
especially in its intonation, the other two words seem to
be well pronounced.

Recommendations and Suggestions: try to

guide in a better way the listening activities,
prepare varied activities, dont limit yourself to
the activities in the book, in this course, the
book is just a guide you can propose plenty of
activities to enrich the lesson.

10. I have to say that I always talk to the sponsor teacher

after all lessons, she tells me what she thinks and what
she would do if she had to lead the same class, I listen
to her and we share our ideas and in most cases we
come to an agreement but in some few ones it is
impossible to do it.
Well, I know the course book is just a guide to these kind of
courses, but there is an institutional recommendation to use
books and all material that students buy for classes, besides,
why should I create activities to my classes and purposes if
those are already done in books? I think the recommendation
shouldnt be whether to use books or not, but if they and they
activities proposed in them fulfill and help to reach the aims and
goals of the lesson.

Sede Principal: Cra.9 N 51-11 PBX: 587 87 97 - Sede Norte: Cra. 9 N 72-90 PBX: 595 00 00
www.usta.edu.co - E-mail: usantotomas@usantotomas.edu.co - Bogot D.C. - Colombia