So there's this thing called Schengen, and Czech just joined. Most of the countries in the EU are in the Schengen zone now, using Schengen rules. This is good for Europe, because borders are almost nonexistent (they literally do not have a physical border crossing anymore). EU citizens can still work in all the countries. It's ok for tourists, ( Read more... )

Today was a good teaching day, but not in the way you'd expect.
( the zen of slacking )

M and L took the PET mock exam last Wednesday, and M got a 94%! Which means L got at least that, since she's a little farther along than M. I'm so proud of them! And M said that one of their colleagues that didn't do as well asked if she could join our class, because I prepared M+L really well. :) We're not letting her, and I told M to just tell ( Read more... )

I was grading my students' tests today and a couple of them put "loose" as the antonym of "find". Sigh. That's a pet peeve of mine, but I also felt bad marking them off for it since so many Americans make that mistake. (i gave them half credit) Then I was looking around YouTube for gymnastics vids* and found this lovely gem.

this makes ne so proud ( Read more... )

Helen just reminded me of an awesome Czechism - one of our ITTP students said that, to them, the jungle was "green hell".

Wow, I've done a rather spectacular job of posting about everything except Prague. I guess because I usually come home and tell any interesting stories to Helen and then don't particularly feel like posting it. But! Now I'm in the mood.

( Students say the darndest things )

1) I CANNOT READ MY FRIENDS PAGE WITHOUT WANTING TO CORRECT EVERYTHING ( Read more... )

I've been asked for teaching stories. I wrote something on all my students, but...I dunno, that's really probably boring to read. They're all interesting and nice people, but I'm not sure if people really care about why Pavel needs to learn English, or that Lida's a lot smarter than me. I like my students, I'm not the best teacher in the whole ( Read more... )

I had a good day! I haven’t really had many bad days, but today was extra awesome. :) Well first, for comparison, I should point out that my last onsite lesson didn’t go very well. I forget if I’ve said this already, I think not…I did a lesson about the environment, it was for upper-intermediate so it was more serious and advanced than my pre- ( Read more... )

( First lesson )