Teaching Week 17: The House

This week, I did a little animal review with some of my classes, but the main focus was on rooms of the house. With the younger kids, I showed them all of the rooms on a picture and they repeated the names. Then we played a game where one student would act out different actions and we would have to guess which room he/she was in. You can imagine this was quite funny when they acted out being in the bathroom, lol. We got a lot of good laughs out of that haha. With the older kids, they learned the names of the rooms and they each got a little house along with four pictures of animals. They had to listen as I told them where each animal was in the house. Then, I got students to tell the class where they wanted to put each animal. We also worked in partners, where one partner had to place one animal in their house and the other partner had to guess which room the animal was in. All of the games worked out quite well and overall, I was very happy with this week at the schools.

On Tuesday, I had a yummy lunch as usual. This time it was turkey on a stick, along with the usual (salad, cheese, bread, dessert, and veggies). 

yummy lunch- especially the raspberry jam filled beignet!

On Tuesday evening, I had my adults class again. This time only 5 showed up out of 8. The class still went really well though! I was actually surprised that I had such a good time with them, lol. They read through various dialogues to help them imagine conversations in different scenarios (shoe store, restaurant, party, etc). Some of them were really getting into it haha. The weird thing about these dialogues was that they seemed to be made for only boys. My class is all women and one man. So, most of the girls didn’t care about being guys, but some women tried to change the gender of the sentences. We got some laughs as the man called the women: sir, and as the women tried to change guy names into girl names. One lady changed Peter to Mary-Peter, and another changed Henry to Henrietta, haha. Then, they completed a dialogue about going through airport security, and at the end, we created a dialogue together about reserving a hotel room. I gave them a worksheet with all of the information for the guest and the hotel receptionist, and they had to create the conversation. I think that they enjoyed this lesson, and I am really pleased with how it went!

On Wednesday, after classes, I usually buy a baguette from this awesome bakery. They make the best bread, so sometimes, I like to try other things that they make as well. I bought this pastry which is called a torsade de chocolat blanc (white chocolate flavor, mmm). Then I also bought oreillettes because they are typically made to be eaten during carnaval time. They are really thin flaky pastries with sugar on top. These ones had a hint of an orange taste. 

Torsade

Oreillettes

On Thursday night, Kate made falafel, and it was so yummy! It was my first time eating it, and I really need to get the recipe! I want to make it again soon.

Loving all of my food experiences here in France,

Magdalena