Okay, so I agreed to do a 15-hour intensive English workshop (known as "stage" in French, and now I can never think of the word "workshop"). It's three hours every morning for 5 days this week.
2 down, 3 to go.
I have a 23-year-old in my class who is kind of giving me a lot of attitude. He's not horrible, just him and his friend are SUPER chatty and I had to ask them multiple times to be quiet until finally I said "If I have to ask you again, I'll ask you to leave for the day." So, yeah. Then that was okay. But it's freezing in the classroom, and my students seem generally unmotivated. But I don't think unmotivated is the right word. When I asked them to write for 10 minutes about grandparents, they wrote for 10 minutes about their grandparents and did it well. But then when I ask them questions in class, no one responds. I guess it's just an unresponsive class. They will do the work, and they're happy to do it, they're just not chomping at the bit to speak English. Or if they are, I don't know what to do to tap into that.
So, that's been a bit frustrating. Just feeling like a "blah" teacher. So, if anyone has any hints, ideas of things they liked in language class. PLEASE tell me.
That's what's new in my life. Other than I played Taboo yesterday in French!! And didn't do too badly! We didn't win, but we were a team of two English-speakers, so I'm okay with that. And now I'm working on making a Taboo game for the class. :)
That's all for now...off to plan more...
xoxo
Meghan
