Czech Point

Man, these days are going by fast.

Day two of giving EFL lessons was a success! Teaching grammar was a lot more difficult than I had anticipated. For some reason, students' eyes tend to glaze over when you mention terms like "future perfect progressive." Weird, huh? I did manage to get them using the grammar skill at least. I put students in pairs and told one that they have been granted psychic powers, but can only see silly futures. The other student must ask questions about his or her future, and the psychic will give their silly predictions. For example, Q: "Will I have bought a house by 2015?" A: "No, you will not have bought a house. You will have bought a dozen purple goats." Funny stuff.

My teacher observer this week is a certified speech-language pathologist who used to specialize in traumatic brain injuries. It's been really great to get advice from her and nerd out about phonology. Apparently, they use a different version of the International Phonetic Alphabet in Europe, which kind of defeats the purpose of it being "international," eh? We're scheduled to learn that on Thursday, so it will be interesting to see what differences crop up. (COUGH-nerd alert-COUGH)

It was anther TEFLer's birthday today, so we had a truncated celebration in our flat so that everyone would still have time to lesson plan.

Wine, cheese, and bread because class.

Oh, I'm feeling much better than I was yesterday. Hopefully I'll feel even better tomorrow. I'm doing a lesson focusing on listening skills. I am thinking about doing a lesson themed on cyber-bullying, but it might not work out. For now though, I'm calling it a day.

-Anthony