my weekend job
Saturday saw me dragging myself out of bed and having the thought of teaching a class of 20 Sec 3NA students at Mendaki just made me wanna sleep more. But I woke up early nontheless. I had the intention to make it a good day for the class. Positive thinking is half the work. The other half is compositon time! for them la. hurhur. Inspired by Hassan's compo title for his student, I gave the class "My idol" to write about. I had all kinds of answers when I asked who their idols are. I had, Christiano Ronaldo, something Alonso...OSAMA! and a cockroach...i kid you not. Honest to God, I have no idea how to teach English the right way. It was hard for them to come up with an intro and for some, to think of an idol is a feat on its own. I gave them the compo to gauge their grammar and language usage anyway. and the verdict is, horrendous! bah! here, i quote some:
1. my idol was my neighbour, ***. He is the same age as me.
2. Prophet received knowledge from an angle called "Gabriel"
3. He is a good terrorist. He is an Islam. I think it is quite cool as a terrorist
4. Alex Furgeson manager of Manchester buy him from PSV Eidthoven
!!!!!!!
GULP!
now i really don't know how to move forward. it's difficult to tutor a mixed class that has very slow students and when u concentrate on them, the rest are abandoned. so, any English teachers out there, *hint: Ley* give me a tip or two?
Then, in an attempt to make them laugh, I told them to write a sentence on why they hate housework...
Something like...
I hate housework because it's tiring.
and I got things like
I hate housework because it's only for girls
I hate housework because it makes me horny. (this is crap)
I hate housework because I'm the only daughter in the family and my parents forced me to do it.
an angry student wrote:
I hate housework because we have the whole week to school and we are tired. So when we relax, we want to relax fully. No housework for us!
So i collected the papers and read them out loud one by one. only this time, replace the word "housework" with "sex" instead.
funny to the max la eh.
and please eh, only for upper secondary. ;)
1. my idol was my neighbour, ***. He is the same age as me.
2. Prophet received knowledge from an angle called "Gabriel"
3. He is a good terrorist. He is an Islam. I think it is quite cool as a terrorist
4. Alex Furgeson manager of Manchester buy him from PSV Eidthoven
!!!!!!!
GULP!
now i really don't know how to move forward. it's difficult to tutor a mixed class that has very slow students and when u concentrate on them, the rest are abandoned. so, any English teachers out there, *hint: Ley* give me a tip or two?
Then, in an attempt to make them laugh, I told them to write a sentence on why they hate housework...
Something like...
I hate housework because it's tiring.
and I got things like
I hate housework because it's only for girls
I hate housework because it makes me horny. (this is crap)
I hate housework because I'm the only daughter in the family and my parents forced me to do it.
an angry student wrote:
I hate housework because we have the whole week to school and we are tired. So when we relax, we want to relax fully. No housework for us!
So i collected the papers and read them out loud one by one. only this time, replace the word "housework" with "sex" instead.
funny to the max la eh.
and please eh, only for upper secondary. ;)
1 comment:
Woah...
You teach English with explicit use of the word 'sex'?
Interesting...
and Very Daring, i must say...
Careful though...
be mindful of the steps and potholes ahead.
Teaching is an art.
It needs mastery and refinements.
To teach is to touch hearts.
Think of topics closest to their hearts (e.g freedom,choice,trust etc).
Look around and use the world as examples or openers.
They are Sec 3 though, they may not open up very easily.
But once they do, you have a class that may outdo the 'Dead Poet's Society'.
Think you can handle that?! ;p
All the best!
regards
~dew~
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