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Class 10, grade 2!!! my worst class for the entire week, I thought this was because they were my first class of the week and my lesson plan gets tweaked as the week goes on. Due to working my thursday classes on sunday, this should not have been the case. My lesson worked well on the sunday - not for class 10. I don't know how to keep them calm, the noise level is nearly unbearable, my assistant doesn't help either. This is the only class that she is my assistant in, and she is not good. I'm not the perfect teacher, would never try say that I am, but she completely took over my class.
Was playing race to the board, bareing in mind this is an english class, she was shouting my weather samples out in chinese - how'd you expect them 2 learn?
Anyway, apart from that one lesson my classes went well for grade 2, taught them weather, and then made them place the clothes they had learnt from the previous lesson in the appropriate weather category. This works well and revision of older stuff.
Got to watch Scott's lesson on monday 2, it was on sportsmanship for grade 5. In my opinion not a great topic for the entire class, and he talked to the board alot as he was writting. These are things that I don't think that I do, but paid much more attention to it when it came to my classes. Good things occured in the class to which I'll also be imitating.
Got paid, so bought a new bag for going to Hong Kong :D as I needed smaller bag, got to practise my haggling skills, in Chinese, i'd like to brag and got it for 65yuan.
Grade one class at east campus on the wed was fun and energetic, learning clothes, they got to run a race outside, putting the clothes on, don't know how many of the words they'l remember, but heyho it was fun. My afternoon classes were cancelled due to it being the last day b4 golden week. Shame since I had gone to sooooo much effort to plan the classes, lucky they were cancelled since I had planned for the wrong grades. Also had no energy for my afternoon classes as during my usual nap time we had a meeting regarding how our classes are going. Anyone who knows me will be aware I do not take compliments, which was basically what the meeting was about, how well we were all doing.
After dinner Matt, Cassandra and Anna got on a train to Inner Mongolia, so now have the flat to myself until I leave on Friday. Scott also got a train, don't know where to, but his final destination is also Hong Kong. So Soren and I are waiting for flight, we are on the same flight which is handy.
Got to speak to my dad tonight, which was good as I was feeling bit home sick this week, just feeling detached, but over that know :D
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