Claudia Beukmann » Blog Archive » I couldn't do it, again!

Over the weekend I definitely wanted to do at least 2 test papers for the TESOL course.
But after the cold I had last week I just didn’t feel up to it. Which means again about one week lost.
At least I finished the test on ‘Language Awareness’. That one was fairly simple, giving a description of Word Classes and asking me in what order I would teach phrases of suggestions that were given.
I am now in the second part of an 8 part course for TESOL (TM). I had a slow start, but I hope it will get better soon.

The first modules were about ‘Practical Phonics’ (a subject I am not exactly fond of!), Practice of Teaching (writing content cards of a book called ‘The English Teacher’s Handbook’), ‘How to Learn’ lessons (2 modules and quite interesting to do).

I still have a lingering headache, so I use the excuse to dodge the Phonics test - again, today.
But tomorrow I really have to get down to it. Otherwise I will take again too long.

What I am trying to finish today is one or two chapters of my textbook.
For the moment it is ‘The practice of Language Teaching’ by J. Harmer. 2001.

It reads fairly easily, but making notes takes time. But I found out that if I don’t make notes it becomes difficult to find the places again to answer the questions in the exercises or the tests.

Okay, back to work!
- No, not work. It is already time to pick up my children from the schoolbus. Yikes. When will I find time to do something for the TESOL course?

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