Teaching Week 21 and Last Adult English Class!

This week was a continuation of prepositions and this time I also taught them “there are” and “there is.” Then, they made up sentences using those phrases along with the proper prepositions by looking at pictures that I drew on the board. With the younger kids, I ended up reviewing the months of the year and teaching them the months of the year macarena- which has been a hit in every class!

Typical delicious school lunch

For my last adult english class, I decided that we should go out to eat together and practice speaking english during the meal. We ended up going to a really good creperie! I had a crêpe with mushrooms, ham, egg, and cheese. Then for dessert I had a creamy strawberry crêpe. One of my students got a really cool crêpe that the waitress lit on fire before serving! It was awesome! 

Here's my strawberry crêpe

One of my student's crêpes! I tried to get a picture while it was still on fire, but I was a bit too late... you can still see a little blue which is the flame

We spoke a mix of French and English at the table. When the waitress came to get our order she was a little confused because she heard us speaking english among ourselves and then we spoke to her in french, lol. I explained that I was their english teacher, and I don’t think that she believed me, haha. Anyways, we all had a good meal together, and I will really miss these adults! Teaching them was a good experience and I am glad that I ended up doing it. 

On Thursday, two of my usual classes were away on a 3 day long field trip, so I ended up just spending the morning with the oldest class (11 year olds). It was really cool to get to observe the teacher teach french lessons. I even participated in a dictation…lol. They are not really done in the US, but here in France they seem to be pretty common. So the teacher reads something, and then kids write it down as correctly as possible. This dictation was even challenging for me, but I did alright.

So all in all, the week went by quickly and I can’t believe I only have two more weeks of teaching at the elementary schools!

Time is flying by,

Magdalena