Wednesday evening all of grade one had a big basketball game with all the classes competing so I went down and mingled with my students to watch that whilst carefully avoiding spending too long supporting any one team and chatting to any students that wanted to say hi, quite a few in the end! It was nice to see the students who are more athletic and no so inclined towards english doing what they love, and maybe they will have seen that I came to watch and it may help in class.
This week I have been teaching a kind of music lesson, it is pretty damn difficult though, I just can't quite get it to flow properly but I'm too tired to really work out why, a bad combination. I have been ending with showing the kids a video of Michael Jacksons 'beat it' with a video made from clips of the Chinese party spliced over it. (link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSPtz7wVDHI )
I'm not really sure if it falls without my boundries as a teacher but its cool and funny, I just hope they don't tell anyone where they got it from! I also show them the cadburys gorilla drumming advert, and the Ok-Go music video on running machines, fun for me anyway!
I'm not really sure if it falls without my boundries as a teacher but its cool and funny, I just hope they don't tell anyone where they got it from! I also show them the cadburys gorilla drumming advert, and the Ok-Go music video on running machines, fun for me anyway!
Thursday evening Mr Gao, a man we met whilst recording the listening tape a few weeks ago, arranged to come and have an english/chinese lesson that Chris signed us both up for. Lessons are much better 1-1 though and so I made my excuses and left Chris to it, hiding in my office in school and talking to Jenny and practising my Chinese!
Its late now, hope to blog more this weekend if it is a little less crazy than last weekend!
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