Warm Up Activity
University of El Salvador
Didactics II
DIG-PA
Lic. Edgar Peraza
Student: Ana Jimenez
June 6th, 2013
My warm-up (listening activity)
I had to start teaching the present continuous tens to my 8th students, so to introduce it I brought them a song. I explain my students that we all had to sing the song.
First, I gave them the page with the lyrics of the song (lemon tree) and I made two groups: boys and girls. Girls were supposed to start first but as I played the CD everybody was quite and none of the girls sang; I ask them so sing but they did not want to for they were afraid of not singing well but I told them that that was just a practice and I would help them; however they took a bad attitude and they did not want to sing, so I asked boys to start singing and they did not have troubles starting sing; even though they made some pronunciation mistakes. They did it well. After they finished that was the time for girls to sing but they still did not want to and I started to feel bad because I tried to explain them that there was nothing to be afraid of but then I realize that the main problem was that some girls were ashamed of singing in front of some guys they liked! I told girls that they had to sing it because that was part of the new topic and I would give them a point if they sing it well; some girls were still saying that they would not sing it but some others start doing it but suddenly when they started singing it started to rain so badly and no one was able to hear, so I could not continue with the activity and we could not even continue with the class.
I feel like girls were afraid of making any mistake in front of the boy they like; at this age is very common that those kind of situations happen because they are adolescents and they do not know how to behave; however it does not justify the way they acted. It could have been better if have done mixed groups with girls and boys so that girls would have not felt like boys were making them
Didactics II
DIG-PA
Lic. Edgar Peraza
Student: Ana Jimenez
June 6th, 2013
My warm-up (listening activity)
I had to start teaching the present continuous tens to my 8th students, so to introduce it I brought them a song. I explain my students that we all had to sing the song.
First, I gave them the page with the lyrics of the song (lemon tree) and I made two groups: boys and girls. Girls were supposed to start first but as I played the CD everybody was quite and none of the girls sang; I ask them so sing but they did not want to for they were afraid of not singing well but I told them that that was just a practice and I would help them; however they took a bad attitude and they did not want to sing, so I asked boys to start singing and they did not have troubles starting sing; even though they made some pronunciation mistakes. They did it well. After they finished that was the time for girls to sing but they still did not want to and I started to feel bad because I tried to explain them that there was nothing to be afraid of but then I realize that the main problem was that some girls were ashamed of singing in front of some guys they liked! I told girls that they had to sing it because that was part of the new topic and I would give them a point if they sing it well; some girls were still saying that they would not sing it but some others start doing it but suddenly when they started singing it started to rain so badly and no one was able to hear, so I could not continue with the activity and we could not even continue with the class.
I feel like girls were afraid of making any mistake in front of the boy they like; at this age is very common that those kind of situations happen because they are adolescents and they do not know how to behave; however it does not justify the way they acted. It could have been better if have done mixed groups with girls and boys so that girls would have not felt like boys were making them