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This TEFL course thing is hard work! And not just …

This TEFL course thing is hard work! And not just for me - I was amazed to discover that my black ink cartridge, which I installed new in my printer just before the course started, is about to run out. My paper supplies are looking distinctly low, too… poor trees.

I think I’ve finished planning tomorrow’s lesson. Hope I have, anyway! It was all going so well - until I read the bit I’d missed, saying it had to be a primarily oral lesson, and realised that I’d have to replace 25 minutes’ worth of reading and writing activities with speaking and listening. Planning out the lesson isn’t so bad - but then you end up working late into the night drawing pictures of elephants or people called Emily who like travelling, cutting out printed words and sticking them onto bits of card, and persuading harrassed members of your family that they really do want to star in the tape-recorded dialogue for your listening exercise…

I did begin to see, yesterday, how all this could be quite fun really. It’s still a lot of work. But it does seem that, with each lesson you teach, you add a little bit to your store of ideas and resources. Perhaps it may even, eventually, be possible to be a teacher and to engage in extra-curricular activities!

This entry was posted on Thursday, February 15th, 2007 at 10:42 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. You can leave a response to this entry.

One Response to “This TEFL course thing is hard work! And not just …”

1. Anonymous Says:
   February 20th, 2007 at 8:54 am

   Keep going Kate! It’ll be worth it in the end… as for the endless cutting up of paper and sticking things onto bits of card… it wears off! When you’ve got 5 lessons in one day you simply won’t have the time or energy. So you might want to save all those bits of card you’re painstakingly crafting right now!

   Sara

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