singing a song to myself

[kenshin03]

So last week my second year english teacher did a little research by handing the students a questionaire regarding how they felt about english. The second year students are, from my experience thus far, the least interested in English classes. I've been working with the teacher to introduce a few new games and things to make English less of a chore

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[masudsabr]

Why of course the ALT would be much more interesting, they've got a young, sexy, musician, foreigner hunk as an assistant teacher... Of course they like the class better!

I did the same survey with my Year 9's at the beginning of my prac, and the results were quite interesting as well. Though, what was your teacher's reason of giving them a survey like that?

[masudsabr]

OOOOOooohh YEAH! BABY!!

... sorry, just had to say it.

[kenshin03]

There are some people from the board of education coming to our school for auditing purposes a few weeks from now. The teacher wrote up a report to give to them regarding what we would be teaching and the differences between ALT classes and non-ALT classes. She gave me a copy to look at when she'd finished.

[haru_reika]

....i had no idea u still used LJ...whcih is why i never check urs again..>___< my apologies!!!

I just realized, back in malaysia, we didn't care abt speaking english either, coz in english classes, though the teacher would be speaking in english (we had an indian teacher at one point), students would still speak chinese to each other, and in any case, i can only remember once in senior 2 where we had an oral, other than that...everything was written...
yeah, and no one in my class liked english...i wonder if it would've been different if there had been a white western alt...XD
do the kids speak japanese in class? and to u outside class?

[kenshin03]

they usually speak japanese outside of class.

In class, they usually speak Japanese too, unless they are directed to do otherwise, Because the work tends to be writing/reading/grammar heavy. That, and they still just don't know how to use English in a conversational situation, so they shy away from it.

[kenshin03]

I don't know if you know the game lines and rows? But my second years HATE that game. I think because the second year teacher used to use it every single lesson.

So far, at junior high, i only really get to organise games for the second years. We've started doing the whisper game as a warm up, and that's actually quite successful, but the kids are already getting a little bored of it.

The scrambled sentence game as well, tends to work fairly well if you organise it right, but because the kids work in groups you can't ensure all the students are actively participating, and there are students who just use the time to chat.

I only lesson plan for elementary. At junior high, the second year teacher lets me organise games and ways to present new information, but the third year teacher keeps a kind of vice like grip over her lesson plans. The first year teacher usually confers with me a week before hand on what we'll be doing, and i offer any advice she might want.

OK too many answers, and too long a response...