October 19th, 2013- Teaching Sports Terms and Giving Out Prizes

• Got to make kids smile
• After a nice restful National Day holiday, I finally got a chance to hand out awards for the previous week's Oral English Competition
• Every student that I gave an award to smiled except the 5 or 6 who I accidentally misspelled their names on the certificate
• 1 was directly my fault because the character in her name was 佳 but I wrote 家 because they sound the same, but the other 4 or 5 I'm blaming the students because they wrote their names like celebrities sign autographs
• Of course, I should have checked with the student before I printed the certificate which is my fault but luckily it only takes 10 minutes to print another one
• Got to make kids laugh
• This week I taught sports terms and how to reply to "Do you like to play (insert sport)?"
• Most kids in 4th and 5th grade caught on pretty quick. At least I corrected them from saying "Yes, I like" to "Yes, I like to play (insert sport)" or "No, I don't like to play (insert sport)"
• 3rd and 2nd graders were alright, at first their eyes were a little glazed over but after one or two quick shouts to attention, they were focused and got through it
• The 1st graders forgot most of the words 2 minutes after I taught them but they've only been in a real school for a little over 1 month so I can understand
• My teaching style is trying to make kids laugh and learn
• I'm not going to teach them songs because I sound like a dying cow when I sing, so I'm going to at least try to teach them grammar and make them laugh

 

Yes kids, American basketball is played by gorillas jumping through flaming hoops

 
 
 

• Don't worry, I also so pictures of the sport being played in its actual form too