Starting this week, I’ll be teaching – gah! My first lesson is tomorrow morning, and I’m teaching the negative and interrogative forms of “to be” in the present tense. Riveting, yes? Actually, it’ll involve a lot of miming and slow-talking and colored chalk, all of which seem way more intimidating when you add large groups of children. Oh Lord. I’ll let you know how it goes.
Anyway, so the rest of stage is basically a speed course in English for these kids: they come to school for three hours every morning, and we try to get through an entire year’s worth of English in about a month. Hah. We do a lot of lessons fairly quickly, so it’s a great chance to crash and burn, then pick up and try again the next day.
Stay tuned for hilarious blunders and fantastic frustrations.
2 comments:
YAY!! goodluck and you'll do awesome. Just remember kids can smell fear haha so leave it at your house thingy : ) love ya!
What is the negative and interrogative forms of "to be"? I don't even know what that is, why should little innocent children in Africa need to know that??
Can't wait to hear how your first lessons went!
You will be an awesome teacher!
Love you so much,
Mom
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