Seven of my nine classes are with third year students majoring in English education. After November 19th, many of them will return to their hometown to teach in a local elementary school. This means I have to finish classes and exams in the next two weeks. Since each class has close to 50 students, it is common for teachers to break up the exam into two class periods, where half the students come one week and the other half come the next week. I too will be using this format for my exam, which is going to be quite easy. The exam is simply a 3-4 minute conversation between me and the student where I ask questions and he or she answers them. There is no written part, it's all oral.
I was thinking about having the students make up and perform skits in English, but when I proposed that idea to one of my classes, they all made it very clear that skits would be boring. They pointed out that skits only require memorization, whereas a one-on-one conversation requires that they actually understand what I say and come up with a response. Thus I will be giving all of my third year students the conversation-style exam.
Since only half the students will be coming to class for the next two weeks, this was our last week with everyone together. At the end of each class we took pictures for about 5 or 10 minutes. I took some with my own camera and then a bunch of the students took pictures with me using their phones. Here are some of mine:
After November 19th, I will only have two classes of second year students majoring in Business English. Romeo suggested that the administration may ask me to teach English to students from outside the foreign languages department. (All college students, regardless of their major, must pass an English language test called the CET). I'm not sure yet what I will be doing after I finish with the third year students, but if the administration doesn't give me anything else, I think I'll look into teaching some tennis.
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