Out of class hours...

It wasn’t all about presentations that week. We did the second and last “guàrdia” and that time we had to replace a teacher who was sick at home for half an hour. Our tutor told us that these 3r. ESO students already knew what they had to do, so we just had to keep the order in class and control that they were all in silence or speaking quietly but doing their homework. As they knew we “were English teachers”, some took advantage of it and did their English homework so that we could help them, and that’s what we did. There were some others who didn't want to do anything, and there was no way to make them work, so they kept on chatting, but quietly.

Since this school doesn’t have a real project on teaching other subjects in English yet but wants to do it soon, there is a teacher who is trying his best this year teaching a “crèdit variable” about Science in English. We had a meeting with him for an hour on Wednesday and he explained us what that course was about and how was he carrying it out. He was very kind to us and showed us the activities that they were doing. He wanted his classes to be very communicative and active, and so he mostly wanted to develop his students’ oral skills. I find it very interesting and his exercises were so funny and useful that I suddenly found myself willing to attend one of his classes and thinking how good it would have been if I could have had that in school when I was a kid.

We also attended the 2n.Batxillerat and 1r.ESO classes. Our tutor told us to follow her instructions and do some exercises from the course book with them. We did a listening and then corrected it together. We also carried out some grammar exercises and talked about their political opinions. When the teacher had to left for a while, we still followed the book but suddenly changed into another activity because we saw they were not engaged anymore. We came out with a game; the spelling battle, and when our tutor came in again and saw that they were very actively participating she let us carry on with it for a bit more.

Next day I’m going to tell you about a very curious and not nice thing that happened in my school that week too…