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One more week down
Oct. 22nd, 2004 06:09 pmThe students today had a really serious case of Friday restlessness. Some seemed half-asleep and some couldn't cut the chatter, but few could concentrate on lessons.
I did have one memorable class, though. One of the third-year classes had been told that Fridays would be reserved for movies and games and such...but the teacher I guess couldn't think of any activities to do, so he was just going to have a regular lesson. The students protested that that wasn't fair, so he turned to me and said, "What should we do?" (Being asked what the lesson should be *after* arriving in the classroom is, unfortunately, not all that uncommon for an ALT.) The activity I came up with off the top of my head was to have the students tell a story, going around the room and each student offering only one word at a time. I provided the title and first sentence, and they came up with the rest.
( My Amazing Adventure )
(What's a day without a touch of surrealism, anyway?)
I also hear tell that it's the time of year to send out best wishes to Deb on her birthday. May your mail-order manga always arrive swiftly!
I did have one memorable class, though. One of the third-year classes had been told that Fridays would be reserved for movies and games and such...but the teacher I guess couldn't think of any activities to do, so he was just going to have a regular lesson. The students protested that that wasn't fair, so he turned to me and said, "What should we do?" (Being asked what the lesson should be *after* arriving in the classroom is, unfortunately, not all that uncommon for an ALT.) The activity I came up with off the top of my head was to have the students tell a story, going around the room and each student offering only one word at a time. I provided the title and first sentence, and they came up with the rest.
( My Amazing Adventure )
(What's a day without a touch of surrealism, anyway?)
I also hear tell that it's the time of year to send out best wishes to Deb on her birthday. May your mail-order manga always arrive swiftly!
