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For a teacher, it is very important to planning the classes because we do not know how the student could react in front of the new topic. So this help us to take control of the class and have a good “rapport” and to deal well with the magic moments and the unforeseen problems because this two things could change the plan, so in simple words a teacher have to be prepared for everything that could happen in a class. Into a plan lesson we have to put the learning outcomes to think about the aim as the objectives of the class. The timetable fit helps us to know and remember how the studenst have been learning and how they are goin to learn then. The class description is very important to know our students and make an sepecially class for them and their needs. We have to focus and make a list about the language exponents this helps us to stay on topic. Also we have to include the procedures, activities, interactions ( with the students, how they respond), personal aims ( our own objectives of the class), anticipate problems (to make solutions if it happens) and additional possibilities if we end the class until the time.

yesterday we learned about classroom technology:

sowtware in the classroom:

MODERN SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGY IS EXTREMELY USEFUL FOR CERTAIN AN TEACHING ACTIVITIES.

The technology industry has been developing more and more advanced tools to bring learning to life and help students develop a respect and appreciation for education. The top trends in today’s classrooms have leaned toward gamification products like Classcraft and task management platforms like Google Classroom.

For teachers to use supplementary materials is very important, because as teachers we know and know what our student needs, maybe he needs to practice more vocabulary, more grammar or more pronunciation, and for that we must create something extra and not only use the coursebook. As we know, we must attract the attention of our students, and to do so we use supplementary materials.

We can use various supplementary materials and we can even find websites with exercises to be able to practice with our students. We can even create our own supplementary materials according to the needs of our students. There are teachers who also choose to photocopy exercises, activities or important data from other books to provide to their students.

To choose which supplementary material we will provide to our students we must consider these points:

If it is easy to explain and manage.

The time in which they will do the activity, we must balance and verify that it is not too long and not too short.

Don't let it be confusing for the students.

What students will learn with this material (OUTCOMES).

A coursebook is very important when teaching English or any other language, because it is the main material they will work with.

That's why you should consider that this coursebook, has no grammar or vocabulary mistakes and above all it should be well planned.

As teachers we must look for and verify that the coursebook that we are going to give to the students is understandable, we have to put ourselves in the student's place and see if he has everything necessary for them to learn and even verify the appearance of the design, if it is attractive for the students.

In order to choose a course, we can ask for opinions from colleagues and even students, or maybe we can use one to see if it works or not, so we can choose another one.

As a teachers we have to know a lot of tips or things that we can use to engage our students in our class. In this case we learned about Warm up, this is an activitie that we do before a class, it is a short and funny activity that we can do to relax our students. The warm up should not be focus on the topic and we can do many activities like pictionary, show a video, online games (kahhot or Quizzez). It is very important to do the warm up because we need to get students’ attention and this is a good activity to “wake up” our students and start the with a good expectation of achieving the objectives of the day's class. 

In this class we learned; first to think about what we are going to teach (grammar, vocabulary, speaking, listenning, pronunciation) and how to divided in lesson stages. We have to be carefull with the time of each lesson stages and to specify the students when a stage finish and another start, because they could get confuse if we do not make it clear.

 When we do our teaching sequence we have to keep in mind three important elements:

This is the ESA(Engage,Study and Activate).

We need to engage the students, so they feel involved with the class and their atention will be better. Then they study the grammar, vocabulary, etc. We have to give a chance to the student to activate the language with a variety of activities, it is better when this are speaking activities or  reading activities. This is similar to the PPP, because we engage to the student with the presentation, studying with the practice of the grammar and activate this with the production.