So I arrive at Lycee on Tuesday morning at 8h as Isabelle hasn't phoned me to say her Terminale wouldn't be there. A part of me still wasn't expecting them though. But they came! I recapped global warming with them much to their delight and then went on to my cartoon strip of the running man which I really like. I think I'm going to do it with every class. At 10h my 2 Terminale girls came and then at 11h I had my BTS as they are now back from work experience. I then ate my lunch and had an hour free before my class. I went back to my room to find there had been a leak over the lunch hour... the caretaker was mopping water up. So, I taught my terminales in a soggy classroom and then, at 15h, my secondes - classe de merde arrived. I wanted to do the David Guetta Atomic Food song again as it had worked so well with the other half of the class but the CD player wouldn't work so I had to leave my classe de merde in the room on their own whilst I went and swapped the CD player. Amazingly they were fine. The lesson then went well and I came home having worked 5 hours - more in one day than I had worked all of the previous week!
Thursday was a continuation of the ameliorations. As my BTS were back from work experience I had a class at 8h. I then had a class of Anglais Renforce with Christiane at 9h where I did my Brighton lesson which involved a lot of repetition (as it was a dictation) and then I had to write all of the 10 dictated sentences on the board. The lesson worked well but I could not only recite the sentences off by heart by the end but I also had arm ache! At 10h I had a class of Terminale. It was a really good lesson. Then I had a class of BTS before lunch so a full morning. At 14h I had another class of Anglais Renforce where I planned to do my Brighton dictation again but because this class was smaller and I didn't fancy getting arm ache again I got them to write the sentences on the board. 10 sentences and, conveniently, 10 students - a sentence each! It was also a really good lesson. In fact, it had been a really good day. A good week. If only every week could be like this.
I worked 10 hours this week. That's not that much short of what I worked in the whole of January!!
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- Gill
- I'm an ex-student. A vegetarian ex-student. A vegetarian ex-student who studied English Language and French at the University of Sussex in Brighton. I spent the 2007-8 academic year on my year abroad (in Marseille, France) which is when I started the blog. It was a way of keeping my family and friends back in England updated with what I was up to without racking up gigantic phone bills. I enjoyed my degree. I originally wanted to be an EFL Teacher, I even did the CELTA. I still get excited about grammar, about the present perfect continuous and phrasal verbs. But it's not a career I want to fall into. I love speaking French too and learning new words. Now I've finished my degree I miss my Student Discount. I miss my title of 'Student' too. I'm a Project Worker now, a far cry from an EFL teacher. I've swapped my international students for rough sleepers and my text books for substance misuse and harm minimisation leaflets. I've decided to stay in Brighton, for a while at least. I might do a Masters, you never know. But, at present, I'm quite happy being a Project Worker. I'd still like to travel mind, maybe teaching as I go. But we'll see - at present I'm just fine where I am.