Well another interesting day... made it to the university to Vitaly's class today. I was supposed to meet him at 12:35... made it in time, but no Vitaly. When I called he said he was tied up at the Dean's office... anyway, class got under way around 1pm. 4th year students... very nice class... they seem to have a good rapport with each other and their teacher. The topic today was Narrative writing. I returned their tests to them and told them we would do more tests with them...Vitaly told me I could come in next week again... I told him I would like to come one more time in May.
This evening I was alone for our English study... it was interesting... A real work out as there was no translation into Ukrainian or Russian. They all worked hard to help me though, it was interesting. They were in no hurry to leave ...later, we had cake and tea.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Slang
Street Talk is a great book and I use it a lot when I'm uninspired, I always get a great lesson out of it! I used it today with a new group I hadn't seen before.
Monday, April 19, 2010
Three little words
No not the three little pigs!!!! Our presentation went well on Sat. Trude impressed them greatly and I stood by grinning and showing a chart or two!!! The teachers seem very interested in how to teach the article.. many asked for a copy of the presentation when we were done... I was impressed with a few of the charts... here's a picture of how our test was broken down. Article Breakdown Article Charts
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Tefl Conference today
We survived the conference today! It was brooding over me like an evil meanie, but we got through it.
I signed up for a 20 minute short talk, which was the minimum you could do, but they gave me a 45 minute slot! As I protested that one of the teachers told me, 'it's ok, you only have 4 people coming". That was a great relief. But I think we had more like 20 present...anyway, with Angela's great graphics we sailed through it. I was only missing an appropriate Dilbert comic strip (since we leaned so heavily on charts and statistics!)
I signed up for a 20 minute short talk, which was the minimum you could do, but they gave me a 45 minute slot! As I protested that one of the teachers told me, 'it's ok, you only have 4 people coming". That was a great relief. But I think we had more like 20 present...anyway, with Angela's great graphics we sailed through it. I was only missing an appropriate Dilbert comic strip (since we leaned so heavily on charts and statistics!)
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