Day 19: The last day

Today it was my last day at the school. I went to the English classroom with the Fifth and sixth grade teacher as usual.  In the classroom, the students worked in an activity from the text book in which each student was given the same chart but with different pictures on them. These were design top work speaking in a way that student A had to ask some questions to student B, in order to find out what the main character was going to do on the days which were not shown on their own one, by using the structure: “to be going to + verb”.

I spent the classroom helping some students with their doubts, and correcting some others when needed, or encouraging them to participate when needed. When they finished, I asked them to ask questions to their partners about their future plans by using the same sentence formation and structure, and that is what they did. At the end of the class, the teacher showed the students a video about a boy who was able to speak eleven different languages, and asked the students some comprehension questions about it.

She took the opportunity to tell some British cultural aspects and also some world politic geography, which would provide the students with some extra overall knowledge about the world. There is not much to say about the two following sessions, as were almost equal to the first one. Having to teach different groups, the teacher repeated the session and I repeated my actions.

After the break I went to a different class with the third and fourth grade teacher, because on the timetable I was given said so, meaning the only difference was that instead of doing the last lessons in the afternoon, these would be held instead of the last morning hour, finishing half an hour later. I was asked to help a student with difficulties finish the book. It did not matter the king of exercises he had to do, as with or without cassette I helped him do all of the exercises, doing the speaking by myself. In this case, it was all vocabulary I knew the pronunciation of very well, having not to fear giving him wrong input at all. After the end of the lesson –which by the way was shorter than the usual morning ones-, he had finished 5 pages from the book.

After that happened I went to the Standard English classroom, and the fifth and sixth grade teacher did the same session with another group.  There I told the students that today it was my last day at the school, and after some greetings I thanked the teacher for all I had learnt at the school center, wished her good summer holidays and said good-bye to the staff at the school center.

I still cannot believe I have finished my stay. I will miss both the students and the teachers here badly, but I will keep with myself everything I have learnt from them, as if in a way a piece of each one’s regards and experience was always with me. I do not regret having come to this school at all, being able to apply all I have learnt here to my lessons as a future English teacher.