They have entered the new term under the impression that oral English class is an auto-pass taught by a laid-back foreign teacher. Their internal discipline starts to sag in a hurry. To sophomore university students, the novelty of the new teacher wears off fast.
Then a cold, nasty pit known as reality greets you in the cold, hard PRESENT tense and snuffs out all that happiness.Ĭonduct oral English like a class that matters, and your students - even the sophomores - will believe it does. Based on that first week, you imagine the term will be easy - like skipping down the happy yellow brick road that is your tidy little syllabus all the way to the Emerald… err, the final exam. Your first week as an ESL teacher at a university in China is a honeymoon packed with fun stuff like ice-breaking games, get-to-know-you activities, and plenty of eruptions of laughter over your inability to pronounce some (or maybe all!) of your students’ names.
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