Thursday May 30, 2013 With Flannagh Fitzsimmons
Today was our last full day of teaching; I cannot believe
that this trip is almost over! I am one of the English teachers, so today our
lesson was on subject-verb agreement. This was my lesson, so it was amazing to
teach! We started off writing sentences with errors, such as “The girl are
running,” and we had the students correct the sentences. We taught about how if
your subject is plural, your verb must agree and also be plural. We showed the
students how to properly label and break down a sentence to make sure the
subject and the verb agree and the sentence makes sense. It was amazing to see
the students finally understand the topic! It was really rewarding that our
lesson was effective. During the afternoon we had students break into pairs –
one student being the subject and the other student the verb. They had to work
together to make a sentence with subject-verb agreement and have it make sense.
This was definitely difficult for the students because they are not used to
working in pairs with their peers. This was a trickier activity for the
students, but in the end they did really well and they understood not only
subject-verb agreement, but how to work with their peers in a pair. This was
one of the hardest lesson plans to teach, but it was extremely rewarding in the
end because we were able to help the students! Tomorrow we have a half day and will be giving
the students a small exam on grammar and structures of sentences! I can’t
believe we’re leaving next week!
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