Today was the second week at one of the universities. I walked into my first class, of second-year students, and nobody took a blind bit of notice. They all slouched around chatting, and ignored me COMPLETELY. I had to yell to get their attention, just to call the roll.
Yesterday I was the star of the classroom. Today I had become invisible. There is nothing like teaching for keeping things real. How deflating.
(But by the end of class they were all sitting up straight and totally focused. Turns out they LOVE it when I get mad at their horrible pronunciation.)
Up again at five tomorrow...
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Links for language teachers
I have noticed that I get a lot of hits from people searching "present simple" and "ESL," and assume that this is language teachers looking for ideas or lesson plans. The following links are good places to start.
ESL Lounge Here you will find lesson plans organised by level. A fantastically useful site for busy teachers, and easy to navigate.
British Council Here lesson plans are organized by topic. There are more teaching activities in the 'downloads' section.
The Internet TESL Journal
They have not updated this page for a while, but there is still a lot you might find useful.
Humanising Language Teaching
This is an online journal, good for ideas, inspiration, and especially good towards the end of semester when you're feeling not quite human.
Dave's ESL Cafe
Almost too much to wade through, but a very useful resource. Lots of links to other sources.
Karin's ESL PartyLand
This is a page specifically dealing with teaching simple present and present progressive. I have not tried any of these, but there are a lot of ideas here, and they look good. At the very least you will be inspired.
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2 comments:
Sometimes, the atmosphere of a class can be best defined by just a few of the more influential ones. If the influential ones are enthusiastic, they naturally take the class into a heightened state of euphoria. Just be sure to check to make sure they all didn't pop any Ecstacy pills before hand.
I guess the dominant ones aren't in that class, which then defaults to being a quiet, shy atmosphere, waiting for Sensei to start all the interactions.
So much for staying on the crest of the wave, eh. Still. No anarchy, and - your ACE (Applause, Cheers, Encouragement) class should recharge your super powers - if not your visibility - before you face the challengers, yes? Hope so. :-)
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