MOTIVATING STUDENTS TO SPEAK ENGLISH.

FROM CHILDHOOD TO NOW

LUCERO RODRÍGUEZ CAMACHO
(COLEGIO CIUDADELA EDUCATIVA DE BOSA IED MORNING)

INTRODUCTION
During the second term students from 808 class had a teaching and learning process focused on the past tense topic. But
getting students attached to the topic through the pandemy was challenging. I used different methodologies through
classroom, gmail, meet, etc. This sample shows some observations of a final class that collects the learning of past simple
tense and the expression "used to" from students, using their childhood memories to practice the language goal proposal.

OBJECTIVE
The challenge was to develop interest in the past simple and used to virtual significant learning. Getting them to
appropiate the correct form of used to expression through something important to them such as their childhood.

PROBLEM ACTION PLAN

Students of 808 class in ciudadela´s school where showing
tiredness and lack of interest in the classroom weekly activities
during the second term due to different inconvinients with the
internet, virtuality and the efects of pandemy and lockdown
atmosthere. Taking this into account the purpose here is to
change the class by answering ¿how to get students of 808
more interested and in English language?
1. Presenting the topic, goals, criteria on google slides.
2. Students provide some sentences with used to on the
jamboard app.
3. Modeling an example with "used to" by using a photo
and childhood teacher memories.
4. Students exercise by stickng their photos from when
they were kids on the jamboard and writing about a

MODELING APPROACH METHODOLOGY
This is a strategy where the teacher applys a structure of
the language (simple past tense and used to) by using a
situation from their own life, becoming a model to
motivate students and getting them familiar to the topic.
This methodology was used when after explaining the
topic of used to the teacher showed their own photo and
wrote an example of something that she used to do in the
childhood but she does not do now, as the students would
have to do then from their own pics and lives.
actions that they used to do when kids and do not do
now, using past simple tence and the expression used
to.
5. Socializing aloud the examples at hte end of the
virtual meeting. 6. Self-assessment on a google format.
TIME: A term. A class 90 minutes.
OBSERVATIONS
Students got the expression "used to" and implement
simple past tense properly easilly thanks to modeling
and the apealing TIC tools. They enjoyed thinking and
expressing emotions, they were spontaneous and
possibly (for a while) they forgot how hard English
used to seem to them. They would have prefered
having presential classes instead of virtual..

REFERENCES
HOW TO USE "USED TO" IN ENGLISH. GOENGLISH youtube channel. November 7th de 2014. In: https://youtu.be/EvjdYDhyfv4

THE OPEN RESOURCE BANK FOR INTERACTIVE TEACHING. A JISC OER 3 project at the Faculty of Education. Teaching approaches:
Modelling. University of Cambridge. 2012