This week so far my class' main focus has been imperatives, modality and advice. I'd be lying if I said that all had been as smooth as week one - in my intermediate class, most of the students are teenage boys, which at times is a real test of my ability to keep the students fully engaged. They tend to lose concentration pretty quickly so I have to change the activity every ten minutes maximum, and they are constantly prodding and distracting each other. So I've decided to split them up as much as possible. I just get the impression that a few of them have got a bit too confident with the routine and are starting to try and throw their weight around a bit. I think this week so far I've learnt a lot about finding the teacher's balance between friendly face and authority figure. All good practice :) and they're very sweet really, bless 'em.
On Tuesday, after explaining the grammar for the imperative, I got them all to call out a command to me for practice, to which one little sod responded 'kill yourself'. Hmmm. It's correct so I couldn't moan too much, just told him to maybe think of a nicer example. Basically, as well as from this example I have reasons to suspect that this particular kid obviously spends waaay too much time with his PS3.
But overall everything's ticking over nicely, still loving Terceira and having a lovely time :) yayyyy
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