My second Experience in the classroom with Advanced Students

Describe On February 9th, I was in my second teaching practice with Advanced II English students in UNICAES. Students were around 22 in total that day. It was around 7:20 a.m. when I was developing a debate activity with students. My tutor was sitting at one side in classroom, and students were sitting face to face (first group in one side and the second group in the other side.) I began the debate activity by explaining them what they had to do and I gave them some hands of paper which they had to use in order to ask for participation in the debate. The topic of the discussion was Friendship. I started by asking some questions to one group in order to elicit students’ participation and they started to do so, but I could notice that not all the students were participating, so I had to ask some to participate in the activity and they did not show interest about the discussion. Thus In order to make those students to participate, I had to ask them specific points about the topic of discussion, and they did it but just because it was asked.
(Analyze)		Plan Action
Interpret	Generalize
I noticed that not all the students were participating during the activity.	Based on what I observed, I think that probably those kinds of activities are no so good in large groups.	The next time I teach this lesson, I will change of the activity taking into account the quantity of students that I have in order to have for each student the same opportunity of participation.
I observed that there were some students that did not show too much interest to the discussion.	It is necessary when using a discussion activity to let students choose a topic which they like or being pretty sure that the topic that has been chosen is going to be according to what is expected for students.	I will show to student a list of topic that they would like to have in a discussion activity.