China - Day 189

Last class on the last day before the summer holidays. Four teams -  each team has a sticky ball to throw at the board at the front of the class. Each team member takes it in turns to throw and they get the chance to do one of four things depending on where the sticky ball lands - give me the word (I give them the category and the first letter), answer my question, tell me the missing word in a sentence that I make up or lift from the curriculum, or spell a word that I know they should know

 

in the afternoon I read the Three Little Pigs to a theatre-full of people

 

then we had a demonstration of sugar painting

China - Day 188

Really tired today - I think the heat is taking it out of me - well that and the teaching dawn until dusk in the run up to the holiday. On Sunday night I will leave for the Philippines for two weeks wooo hooo!!!!

China - Day 187

I thought 'oooooohhhh sea mist lovely' as we were going over the bridge on our bikes - Steve said the air pollution was up to 90 blubblubs per blubblub today - I said I didnt know what that meant - he said 'well, air quality is unsafe at 30' (I think that he meant to add blubblubs per blubblub to that measure too). Imagine all the people........

China - Day 186

Classroom greetings

China - Day 185

Miraculously Ivan (agent) managed to line up an interview for this afternoon. No information just that the interview is in a shopping centre (?!?). He gave me the time and we agreed a place to meet and so Crystal and I whiled away the time in the local KFC. Much cooler today after the monsoon rains. Crystal and I went with Ivan into the shopping centre and sure enough there was a private language school there. Fabulous facilities, plenty of international teachers, full syllabus delivered completely in English by both the Chinese teachers and the international teachers. I was asked to prepare and deliver a 10 minute demo and Rachel video'd part of it - I taught a mock class of Rachel + 11 invisible children, how to identify and pronounce (using flashcards and actions) a fish, a gorilla and an elephant. I thought it went well . We will see if I am offered a job

China - Day 184

Anyhow I didnt meet Robert and Veronika (not Melanie) for dinner because Crystal messaged me and we had a lunch which started around 1pm and finished about 9.30pm.

Meanwhile there was monsoon style flooding outside so when we got outside the restaurant I (gallantly) took me shoes and socks off so I could carry Crystal across the flooded roads. The MRT had ended so we walked in monsoon rain until we were able to find a taxi back to the hotel