Was rather nervous in the first few hours, meeting my 17 other classmates who either have had some sort of teaching experience or were native English speakers, while I had neither advantage. Nevertheless, after a whole morning of "getting to know you" games & interaction, am more at ease & comfortable with the group.
Some interesting activities we did:
- Had an hour of German lessons! Kudos to our teacher - she taught us some basic greeting language without a single word of English! (Lots of miming, drawing, & repetition...) Also gave us an idea of how foreign students with ZERO English language feel...!
"Hallo, ich heisse Jessica. Wie heist Du?"
"Guten Tag. Mein Name ist Frau Wong. Wie heissen Sie?"
"Guten Tag. Mein Name ist Frau Wong. Wie heissen Sie?"
- Tense System Overview - almost pulled my hair out trying to understand what a past participle was. Still not quite sure but I found a handy tip - just put "have" in front of a verb, and the form of that verb is a past participle. Haha...
- Met our students in the afternoon - they're from the community who were after free English lessons. Mostly Asian faces I must say. Rather tempting to speak Mandarin/Cantonese to them but have to refrain.
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