Taiana da Silva e Silva 20331665

Estágio em Língua Inglesa I

Manaus – Junho de 2006.

  Teacher´s profile

I’m 21years old, I began to study English when I was 12 years old, at Yázigi Internexus. But
before this English was already a target of my interest. I used to turn over the pages of my parent’s
English old books from High School and used to imagine what was written there. A little later I
started to listen do some music in English and wonder what they were saying.
When I started to study at Yázigi I completely “fell in love” with this language.When my
house began to have access to the internet I started to see he lyrics of some music and tried to
translate them with a dictionary. When I was 14, I went to San Diego, California and spent 1 month
there. This experience was wonderful to me, it made me much more interested in English.
When I was 18 I finished High School and needed to choose a Graduation Course. At first I
wanted to do “Translation and Interpretation” graduation course, but here in Manaus we do not
have it on Federal Universities, so I chose “Letras – Língua Inglesa” because English always was
something that I really enjoyed.
To graduate we are supposed to give classes at CEL Proyect, so here I am… But I never saw
myself as a teacher, I do not hate this professional but I really think it does not suit me.
Fortunately, I got a very nice class, and this is not being a torture as I thought it would be, it
is helping me to put an end in my shyness.

 The students

I t is a class of English 3 (of 8), in the morning, on Cel Proyect.

They are mostly between 18 and 22 years old, with a few exceptions, they are very friendly
and helcoming. They are 8 men and 16 women.

1. Aldo Ramos da Silva Jr: He is a very talkative student, it is good because he is very
participative, and he is not shy at all, even though he does not know how to read something.

2. Aline de Mendonça Silva: She is the best student in class, she has a very good knowledge, she
speaks very well and she likes to participate.

3. Amanda Cursino Prestes: She is very lazy, she does not like to participate and her pronunciation
is not good. Sometimes it is difficult to make her answer in English.

4. Amilen Sílvia Batista Sena: She is a very responsible student, always bring the homeworks
already done but she only participates when she asked to do it.

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5. Andréia Cristina de Almeida Nunes: She is also a very good student, she always asks when she
has a doubt, and she has a very good pronunciation.

6. Beatriz Pedroza da Silva: She has a good knowledge of grammar, but sometimes she has some
difficulties on reading.

7. Carla Keuryn de Almeida Castro: She is one of the youngest students I have (she is only 15) but
she is very responsible, she likes to participate, even though she does not have a good
pronunciation.

8. Denis Marques Solano: He speaks very well, but he has some problems with the grammar part.
He is very participative.

9. Elcides Gomes Leitão Júnior: He is the youngest student I have (he is only 14), but he speaks
very well, he likes to participate a lot. He only has problems with the homeworks, at most of the
times he says he did not have time to do it.

10. Erlon Moreira Barreto: He likes to participate but he has some difficulties with pronunciation
and with the grammar part.

11. Évilin da Silveira Adorno: She does not like to participate much, she only does when she is
asked to do it, she does not have the facility to speak but she has improved a lot if we consider
the first days of class.

12. Ewald Pimentel Santos: He participates a lot, even though sometimes he does not read or speak
very clearly. Sometimes he knows something but he get kind of confused.

13. Jefferson da Silva Bernardes : He is a very shy student, he prefers to do the exercises by
himself, he has some difficulties with pronunciation and grammar but he always participates.

14. Jéssica Mota da Silva: Probably she wants to participate more but she thinks her friends will see
her as a “nerd”, so she prefers to act like the others. She speaks well but she does a lot of
confusion when she writes.

15. Larissa Sicsu da Silva: She is a very good student, but she would participate much to improve
much more. She speaks and writes well.

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16. Lílian Vasconcelos dos Santos: She does not like to participate and she has difficulties to speak
and to write.

17. Liliane Rolim dos Santos: She is a good student, she has a good participation, she writes very
well but sometimes she has some difficulties with the pronunciation.

18. Mara Tatiane Silva dos Santos: She likes to participate, even though she gets very nervous in
front of the whole class.

19. Marcilei Rocha Baraúna: She has some problems with the pronunciation and with grammar, but
she tries to improve it by taking out her doubts.

20. Nivelle dos Santos Torno: He is a very good student, he participates very frequently, he reads,
speaks and writes vey well, maybe he could be able to be in another level already.

21. Pricylla Almeida Pereira: It is a problem to do this student speak. She does not like to
participate at all, she does not do her exercises and wants to spend the entire class talking with
her friends.

22. Renata Ferreira dos Santos: She does not speak well, she does not like to participate and she
writes ver badly.

23. Sílvia Caroline Muniz de Souza: She participates a lot, she has some problems with the
pronunciation but she is always making efforts to read and speak better and to clarify any doubt.

24. Thiago Abecassis da Cruz: He is shy, most of the time he wants to be quiet, but when he
participate he does it in a good way, sometimes he writes things that make not sense but he likes
to clarify any doubt.

 Content

- Unit 7

 Countable and uncountable nouns;

 The use of “How much”, “How many”, “a lot of”, “some”, “any”, “not much”, “not many” ;
 The use of “too much” and “too many” ;
 “Restaurant talk”: how to order a meal in a restaurant.

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  Classroom events

The class on this day began with a kind of problem, because when I arrived at the room all the
students were outside of it, due to the fact that the room was completely dirty with coffee powder,
wheat, eggs and paint, it was a result of the “welcoming” of the freshmen of the Management Course
on the previous day.
It was a problem because the Coordination took a very long time to get another room which
could be used by us and the students got upset about it.
When we finally got into a class I asked the students to divide themselves among groups of 5
people to do a special exercise. I brought them some advertisements of some supermarkets with lots of
pictures os food. They were supposed to cut those pictures and divide them into Countable and
Uncountable nouns and to write down their names. With this I wanted them to practice this Grammar
point and also practice the vocabulary. They did very good works, this activity was very succesful.
They went to the coffee break and when they came back we started another activity. I asked
them to redivide them into groups of 3 people. Each group received a “Menu” and they were supposed
to prepare a conversation in a restaurant, one orders a meal and the waiter writes it down, the other
person orders another meal, then they ake for the bill, etc.
I decided to do this activity because was visible their need to practice more this kind of
expressions, that they had learned in the previous class ansd also because they asked me to give them a
opportunity to practice conversations before the Final Oral Test, that will take place on June 24 th. I
asked them to avoid writing and reading when they were presenting, to give more emphasis to the oral
aspect of the activity.
They presented very good conversations, some of them were very funny and well elaborated, of
course that some groups were much more spontaneous then others, some brought their papers to the
front of the class and read it, some spoke what their imagination produced durind the presentations.
To finish the class I asked them to read at home the first pages of Unit 8, which we will began
next Saturday.

Olha só, se tu fores a professora em questão, faz um pequeno resumo

da tua formação (pequeno mesmo), em seguida cita os alunos que
estão em sala, nome a nome, depois podes dizer o conteúdo que foi
dado em sala e como (present perfect, a musica tal foi usada...), aí tu
falas de eventos não didáticos, tipo fulano saiu da sala tres vezes,
fulana não parou de conversar e assim vai... Pequeno resumo de quem
está dando aula, descrição do conteúdo e como foi dado, citação dos
alunos que estão em sala de aula - se possível com uma pequena
descrição sobre o perfil de cada um, se um é tímido, se o outro não fica
quieto, se um já estudou ingles e assim vai - e os eventos não
didáticos.... é isso, detalhe.... se tu fores uma daquelas que tem

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sessenta alunos em sala, escolhe alguns (20) para fazer isso, e no
diário ignore os outros, ok? Ficou mais claro?
Qualquer coisa, pode escrever,
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