A day at school
I realize looking back that I never did write very much about my weeks of practical math-teacher training this fall, ah well. Either way I'm having another stretch of practical training now, this time as an English teacher for ten weeks, and an amusing thing happened that I wanted to share.
One of the things our own teachers do, and that we are encouraged to in our on classrooms as well, as to encourage/badger the students about using english at all times during the lessons, both when working together on tasks, and when they stray onto other topis to at least do it in English. Exceptions are made, of course, for when you can't quite ask about or define an unknown word by circumlocution.
I overhear the following utterance in... not quite Swedish... not quite Swenglish... Swowish?
"Det finns just [somethings] du inte kan [somthing]a och humanoids du inte kan sap-a"
I didn't quite catch the first half but I've heard enough, I head over in the direction of the speaker and tell him:
"If you're going to discuss World of Warcraft, why not do it in English since it's the language the game is actually in?"
The recipient of the information just brightens up when he hears me and exclaims
"She knows!"
While the speaker enthusiasticly turns and asks me if I play... I'm forced to admit that I only really played a little and mostly it was my brother who played, but I think I scored a few points with the gamer boys there, which felt nice, go me! :)
One of the things our own teachers do, and that we are encouraged to in our on classrooms as well, as to encourage/badger the students about using english at all times during the lessons, both when working together on tasks, and when they stray onto other topis to at least do it in English. Exceptions are made, of course, for when you can't quite ask about or define an unknown word by circumlocution.
I overhear the following utterance in... not quite Swedish... not quite Swenglish... Swowish?
"Det finns just [somethings] du inte kan [somthing]a och humanoids du inte kan sap-a"
I didn't quite catch the first half but I've heard enough, I head over in the direction of the speaker and tell him:
"If you're going to discuss World of Warcraft, why not do it in English since it's the language the game is actually in?"
The recipient of the information just brightens up when he hears me and exclaims
"She knows!"
While the speaker enthusiasticly turns and asks me if I play... I'm forced to admit that I only really played a little and mostly it was my brother who played, but I think I scored a few points with the gamer boys there, which felt nice, go me! :)