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, 2010April Fools & Easter
April 8th, 2010Last week was April Fool’s day (愚人节）, or for me rather, April Fool’s week. Unfortunately I didn’t actually have class on April 1, but that didn’t stop me from playing a trick on each one of my classes. The trick went simply like this; I told them that the school leaders wanted me to give more quizzes, these quizzes would be pop-quizzes so they didn’t know there were coming. Our first one is today. This sent them into a panic. They were so worried about doing well on this quiz that they would do whatever it said. Lucky me. Knowing that students don’t always read directions so well I gave them each a quiz like the one below. As you can see, the instructions say to read the entire quiz first before doing anythere. Well, students often don’t read directions, so this leads them to do every question on the quiz before they get to the bottom and realize they’ve been tricked. All the while I was taking a video of them doing some pretty silly things. Check out the videos after the jump.
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