Not studying and not working either allows me to have lots of fun in my life. Last Wednesday my accessorise course in the morning (I’m making my own bag!) and Opera soc. rehearsal in the evening (so great to see everyone again! I also will be singing Mozart, so artsy of me). Last Thursday Jamie Oliver Cooking Course (Thai Green Curry yummm) and Swing dance in the evening. Yesterday is was Light Night in Leeds, which means you get to go to a lot of free performances spread over Leeds City Centre and campus area. After that I want straight to a house party.
But it’s not all fun for me. I also have to work for my TEFL course, or else I will never get to go to all these warm and lovely countries to teach English. I started with a module about classroom management and teaching professional English. Great! Tacky example video’s and lots of games and exercises. But then I got to the second module - oh horror! – Elementary grammar. Immediately I got all these flashbacks to high school where the teacher was holding up a certain amount of fingers to show which type of verb was being used in the sentence he was reading out. I think we were supposed to follow him, but I never got my head wrapped around this system (or the names of all the types of verbs) so I spend most of my times just sitting there in confusion. I learned to accept that it’s easiest just to learn the verbs case by case, because remembering all the rules is fairly impossible. But now I will have to teach English to others. And I have the vague feeling that telling them that they “just have to know it” is going to form quite a book class. Perhaps we can fill the rest of our time with games? Hmm, maybe not. Maybe it’s best if I just write down all those weird little rules in my notebook so that by the time I’m teaching I can actually tell the students what they are. Why these rules apply? No idea. Just accept that English grammar sucks. But now that it could always have been worse, it could have been Dutch.
Some photo's from the last weeks:
Leprechaun museum
October fest
They know me here!
King of burgers
Welcome Team pre-party
Welcome Team party cake
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