English Class

We found out today that Naiyana has to go to Bangkok for a few days. She asked us to take over her English classes for the rest of the week! Ever brave, Nadim and I agreed without hesitation.

There are two grade five classes. Tomorrow we have an hour long class in the afternoon, and Thursday and Friday we have morning classes that will last for two hours. The kids are learning how to say something happened in the past, present, or future using phrases like last year, this week, or next month. We wrote out a bunch of sentences and Yasmin and Roya helped hand them out to the class. Then each kid had to read them and stick them on the board under the headings "Past", "Now", or "Future". Next they had to write their own sentences. This mixed in with some songs and practice questions made up the hour long class.

We get to repeat the lesson tomorrow with the other grade five class. Hopefully it goes smoothly! Nadim and I are thinking of games and songs and some speaking exercises to do with the kids during our two hour sessions later in the week.

They have a hard time to hire English teachers here. Nawarat related a story about doing an interview with a teacher who had majored in English, but when they started the interview in English, she shook her head and asked to do it in Thai. He laughs and says, he wasn't too sure what she was planning to teach the kids!

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