When I was younger, I often hear older people say “kids are different these days” and that always connotes something negative. Now that I am an adult, I also have the same opinion on children of today– they are quite different from how we were. And yes, I also mean that in a negative way. [...]
[Continue reading...]are you a native speaker?
November 4, 2009 9 Comments
Many Filipinos, although they had an English subject at school, still can’t really express themselves in English. I think the reason to this is because they didn’t have the chance or were not encouraged to talk in English. Give an ordinary Filipino an English text and he will be able to read and comprehend all [...]
[Continue reading...]sorry for my lack of updates
October 27, 2009 4 Comments
I was busy. That’s so lame but that’s true. Teaching again after a two-year break is not easy and I am working hard to get my mojo back. Back then lesson planning was much much more simple. I needed not to try so hard to whack my brain for class activities to do. Now, I [...]
[Continue reading...]waterloo: names
October 8, 2009 10 Comments
I admit I am not good with names. During my practicum in the Philippines and during my one year teaching stint in China, I didn’t bother remembering the names of all my pupils. Having 50 children in a class and having at least four classes a day made it almost impossible to remember everybody. I [...]
[Continue reading...]building up my English skills
October 2, 2009 5 Comments
Being a non-native English speaker who is teaching English, I always have to worry about my pronunciation and my grammar. I often find myself stopping in the middle of a sentence because I am not sure what grammatical rule to follow. In short, I am not sure how to say things the right way (grammatically [...]
[Continue reading...]That would be 40 hours or more working time
September 27, 2009 7 Comments
It looks like I am going to get another five groups in addition to the five groups assigned to me last week. That means 10 hours teaching time each week. Not bad. And compared to the 20 hours per week I got back in China, 10 hours should be like a walk in the park. [...]
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