My English classes have continued to go well. With many of my classes, I’ve been able to make a shift over the last couple of weeks from teaching boring grammar stuff, that even I struggle to understand, to working more on conversational skills. In practice, this involves going over a piece of reading, usually a news article, and then having a conversation about the topic. Themes covered have included the rescue of the Chilean miners (a topic which I think every international volunteer has based a class around at some stage), issues with multi-culturalism in Germany, shootings in Brazil, women and sport, plans to send people to Mars and one particularly interesting class on Scottish culture.
One of my classes finished up just before Eid. The students asked if they could have “an exam” on the last class, so I put together a wee test for them. I ended up considering this as more of a test of myself in seeing how much of what I had covered had actually sunk in. While I was generally pleased with how they got on, there are maybe a couple of areas where I could improve my teaching. Overall, though, I’ve been receiving some good feedback so am still generally happy with how classes have been going.
I was sad to see this class ending. I’d grown to really like the participants over the six weeks I’d worked with them.
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