Even though I have a very small class of teachers today it seemed to take quite a long time to work through 2 themes each. I think it probably had a lot to do with having a mixed class of elementary school teachers ( who the course is aimed at) and private school teachers who may not have the experience, or realise the challenges, in teaching 30 kids at once. They did start off quite well, but I was still having to give input at the end of the day, which I would have preferred to have gotten past. Very often it’s simply a case of flicking the genki switch to drag the lesson out of “repeat after me and fall asleep” into “let’s use this English!”.

They also did well at making up dances for the choruses of the songs. The kids can easily think of gestures for the answers, but the question part often needs something totally unrelated to the English to make it fun. It seemed today that Billy’s Bootcamp was the biggest inspiration!

Let’s hope tomorrow gets them up to speed as I need to move on to the more advanced stuff!

I also uploaded the lesson plans book to the main section of the website. Enjoy!