After a semester and a half of teaching oral English, I think I’ve discovered a few flaws in the system. No doubt they’ve been “discovered” by others as well, but I’m still going to outline them for my own benefit and to vent a bit. You see, last week, only a handful of my class of 32 students actually did their homework. It wasn’t even difficult, it could literally be completed in 5 minutes if they were lazy, and yet so many just didn’t do it. At first I thought it was my fault, perhaps I hadn’t explained well enough, perhaps there was a miscommunication. But if a handful could do it correctly, I must’ve communicated to them (unless they’re mind readers)! Nope, it was simply out of laziness that they didn’t do their homework. But why should they? There’s a laundry list full of reasons why it’s not important to do your homework, or attend classes.
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May 17th, 2010Singing Sensation
April 17th, 2010I am a singing sensation! Well, that might actually be exaggerating a little bit. I’m really not much of a singer and despite that my students are always wanting me to sing. I don’t know if they’re so used to bad singing because they go to KTVs all the time, or if their ears are warped so much they think I’m just that good. How did I get talked into this? Well, after my April Fools Day joke went off so well I needed to make sure the classes didn’t tell each other. So I just asked them really nicely to not tell anyone else until the end of the week. I wasn’t expecting it, but Gee, one of the girls in my first class asked, “What are you going to do for us?”. I guess I hadn’t thought about that.
“Sing us a song…. in Chinese!”
I was reluctant to do so, but what the heck, I might as well give it a try. This is how it turned out.
Click read more for a song breakdown
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