First Week of School!

This week, all the groups had short but fun classes.  The games and activities were based on this classic children's book by Pamela Allen.

Through the story, we worked on vocabulary for instruments, sounds, and some adjectives (noisy and quiet).  We learned about high and low notes by making a water xylophone and listened to different sound we could make with it.

Most importantly, the children were introduced some important routines and classroom language that will be used in every English class.

Here are some of the routines we have practised:

• greetings
• getting into a circle
• moving from one part of the classroom to another
• reading stories or playing games
• getting the class’ attention
• starting and stopping activities
• tidying up
• ending lessons

There were some funny reactions from the students when they heard me speaking in English...and ONLY English.  Here are some quotes from this week...

"I know where you are from. You're from Disney! That's why you talk like that."

"Were you born this way?"

"Why are you talking like that?!"