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Last day, yummy food and a clear out
Posted by: Sally on: April 1, 2009
I had a brilliant day at work today. It was my current group of students’ last day of class. We played lots of games: pass the parcel(!), Brainstorm and a home made board game. At lunchtime we had a meal paid for by the college to bid the students farewell. There was lots of gorgeous Bengali [...]
Living rooms but no cake
Posted by: Sally on: March 25, 2009
I had a very easy day at work today. I took my students to the Geffrye Museum in Dalston. If you’ve got a spare few hours, and you happen to be in the vicinity, I would definitely recommend dropping in. It’s a museum about “middle class” living rooms through the ages, and as you walk through, you [...]
Ciao belli!
Posted by: Sally on: January 13, 2009
- In: ESOL teaching| Men| Work
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The new term has started.
We have a new batch of students.
The sudden influx of gorgeous Italian males is not unwelcome.
Film suggestions needed
Posted by: Sally on: November 29, 2008
I’ve got to find a film to watch with my students at the end of their course in a few weeks’ time. My class consists of: three Somali women, one Somali man, two Bangladeshi men, five Bangladeshi women, one Afghani woman and one Turkish woman. Their English is not brilliant, so the less dialogue the better.
They are all in [...]
What do you have for breakfast?
Posted by: Sally on: September 16, 2008
I’m still doing the ol’ speech therapy lark three days a week, and teaching ESOL on the other two. I’m still not entirely happy with SLT (although it’s better than it was), but I’m really enjoying the teaching. (I’m also still trying to find a job that will allow me to ‘use my languages’ and which pays as much [...]
