I don’t believe this. I’d written copious notes about what we did today and when I went to save it, the fucking thing ate the entire entry. When the f will I learn to compose offline. I am furious. I have no time with this stupid school schedule. I haven’t had time even to take…
I’m always racing to catch up, and am never done when the others are.) My attitude is not great. I notice the high performers who are just beginning to produce for real, using a verb they know and trying out a different ending in an original situation with vocabulary from a different session. I’ve forgotten…
Subject Matter I thought we were going to do clocks today but we didn’t. We began, as always, with the “dictation” (it doesn’t really seem like a formal dictation. He just says a word and we start to write it as he writes on the board. That’s something I do regardless of whether or not…
Subject Matter He began (as he has done before but I forgot to notice/mention it) by stating & writing on the board the date. It was a nice way to start the class and get students’ attention. It was sort of a dictation; he told us to write things down, anyway. Ordering breakfast in a…
Today I felt really left behind much of the time, while many others seemed to memorize vocab spontaneously. Observations about today vs. the other days: He spoke a little more English than in the previous two days. Not much, but just enough to clarify certain points, which was helpful. But of course in Real Life…
Ray built on what we started yesterday, using identical techniques as far as I could tell: introducing new words and phrases, pantomiming them, calling on us in the circle, anmd then breaking us into pairs to try them. I felt he was moving very fast. In our pair work, since we were covering more ground…
The teacher, spoke no English to us throughout the entire class (except for the fifteen minutes of methodology reflection at the end). When we walked in, he handed each of us a card with our names written in Turkish. As he pointed out later, this signaled to us that we’re working with a very different…
