Today was billed as “songs and games”, and as we covered all the important theory and motivation bits yesterday, that’s what we did all morning. In fact the first hour we spent doing the the full “Left & Right” lesson in real time, just to show what sort of speed a class would go ( i.e. about half the speed of the usual workshop speed).

The only thing I was concerned about was that the students were afraid of asking questions in front of the teachers, and the teachers were afraid of asking questions in front of the students. So in the afternoon I split them up and got them to make lists of all the problems they have with elementary school, so we could solve them one by one. And pretty amazingly they all came up with basically the same things. Everything was fairly easy to clear up ( except for the ALTs favourite problem of what to do with awkward classroom teachers) so we ended on some more games and songs, which brought smiles to all their faces, and it was the end of another very genki and eye opening day.