Taking everything into account, I consider my first teaching experience as the first

proof of how good I can be when I teach. Eventhough all the difficulties that I had,

my class (because I could not make my second one) was very meaningful to

receive feedback of my performance afterwards, in order to improve what could

have been better.

At the beginning, I was kind of dissapointed because of my students. I had to

observe general English ones, and when they told me that they wanted to go to my

tutorials, nobody went. For the following week only 2 students arrived. I felt a little

bit frustrated because I had planned my lesson with all the materials to be used,

thus because the number of students were not as I expected to have, I had to

rearrange the tasks at the moment.

On the other hand, having the “EFL Methodology” course was very useful to be

able to know how to design my lessons. I spent a lot of time thinking of what

activities I could use for my students, taking into consideration the level of them. I

tried to be focused as much as possible in the communicative approach, and I can

say that my class was a 90% about how to use the language, rather than teaching

gramatical rules.

Furthermore, when I did my class I put in practice what I learnt from my

methodology course in terms of strategies. When my students were not able to

understand what I was saying or any word, it was very practical the use of realia,

instead of spending time explaining something that probably they would not

understand.

To sum up, planning lessons was very challenging for me, but as a final result I

consider I did a good job. For the following semesters, I will be even more focused

on the use of variety, target language, and on the communicative approach.

If we as future teachers can make these changes in our lessons, I am sure we can

improve positively the reality of our educational system, especially in English

classes.