Week 5

25. May – 29. May

* Teaching plan (week 5~ week 10)

- Level 2: Health (vocab, short writing, reading) + making question forms & appropriate answers
- Level 3: Health
(reading + vocab & expressions = lexical approach)
- General speaking class (mon/ wed): “Going places”
(talking about harbor cruise, sightseeing / landmarks around Auckland+ NZ, outdoor activities, planning a trip, making a reservation etc.)

This is my outline, long-term plan, for the rest of 5 weeks.
I want to help my students to be able to build a lot more cultural and language knowledge about the topics that they study in their own general classes and I chose the topic “going places” for my extra afternoon class to teach additional useful information as living in New Zealand.
I will provide as much time as I can to practice speaking in classes with various kinds of ways, like listening, building vocab + expressions, role plays and so on.

This Wednesday the teacher of 1A, Joanna, hurt her back so another teacher came instead of her and I learned something from her-

The 1A students are the students who are real beginners and there are bit more gaps in levels for individuals so some of students do well but some of them are really behind and they need lots of attention and help.
However, the one-day teacher seemed like doesn’t know how to manage well about it that I’ve learned through previous weeks and struggled…
I felt sorry for her as well as for students because the teacher was lost and it made students lost too!
And the materials that she prepared were too hard for them!!!
Also the topic was not related at all with the themes that they’ve studied and because of it I could easily find that students were very overwhelmed, confused and looked very bored….!!

It was the hardest class until now….^^;
But it was good chance for me actually-
As it gave me a chance again to remind myself about the importance of being a good and efficient teacher- !