The first day

My first day in the school was on the 23rd October and the first students who I met were in 4th of ESO.

Everybody is afraid when they have to do something for the first time and my case wasn’t an exception. People tend to be nervous when they have to do something that they don’t really know, but after the first experience you start to feel more relaxed. I arrived at the high school very early and I came in the classroom with my tutor, Núria Laporta. The first impression was very good, because there weren’t a lot of students in the classroom, because this subject was an optional one. They were seated in pairs and it was like an image of the contemporary society, everyone comes from a different country: Pakistan, Spain, Morocco, etc.

Núria Laporta is an experienced teacher who have had to change her methodology for three years because of the new background of their students. She discovered that students are more motivated if they can learn English through songs and games and this was what she did.

This lesson was dedicated to Imagine , the John Lennon’s song. The first exercise that they had to do was to order in pairs the different fragment of the song while they were listening to the song. After that Núria gave them the lyrics and they had to fill some blanks with words that they had at the bottom of the page. And the last task was related to some grammar topics. I was very surprised, because when Núria asked about the questions, everyone answered her and they seemed to be very motivated and participated.

Núria had a present for the Arabic students, because she played the song once again, but this time it was a version with fragments in English, Hebrew and Arab. During the whole lesson, you can notice the immigrant background of the students due to the kind of questions they ask or the languages they speak.