Sunday, June 2, 2013

Day 8: Flannagh

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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