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marjorieinchinaFirst lesson done! Fifteen reiterations of it to go!
I ended up staying awake until 1 a.m. to finish preparing, which is kinda dumb (especially when I get automatically woken up at 6 every morning) but the deadline worked its magic the way nothing else had, and I got the thing done. I'll be more punctual next time, I promise. The lesson was about the different places I've lived--Red Wing, New York, and Ely--and the different things that go on in each place. I'm reasonably confident the students understood me throughout the lesson. (I told them to stop me if I go too fast, but I'm not sure they would actually do so.) We had a speaking exercise at the end of the class and they did quite well. I asked what kind of city or town they would like to live in, gave them some time to talk about it (need to do better at getting them to use English in this part of the session, I think) and then asked for their answers by throwing a balled-up pair of socks around the room and having the student with the socks stand up and speak, an idea I stole from one of the British teachers.
The students are quite well-behaved, and their English skills are very good. I'm looking forward to coming up with ways to challenge them.
I ended up staying awake until 1 a.m. to finish preparing, which is kinda dumb (especially when I get automatically woken up at 6 every morning) but the deadline worked its magic the way nothing else had, and I got the thing done. I'll be more punctual next time, I promise. The lesson was about the different places I've lived--Red Wing, New York, and Ely--and the different things that go on in each place. I'm reasonably confident the students understood me throughout the lesson. (I told them to stop me if I go too fast, but I'm not sure they would actually do so.) We had a speaking exercise at the end of the class and they did quite well. I asked what kind of city or town they would like to live in, gave them some time to talk about it (need to do better at getting them to use English in this part of the session, I think) and then asked for their answers by throwing a balled-up pair of socks around the room and having the student with the socks stand up and speak, an idea I stole from one of the British teachers.
The students are quite well-behaved, and their English skills are very good. I'm looking forward to coming up with ways to challenge them.
