Colleagues,
I have not updated in a significant period of time because I am currently living abroad. Very exciting news, I know. I am spending a semester studying in Spain; it is quite a fantastic experience so far.
Recently, a woman who lives in my apartment building approached me. She said she had heard my flatmates and I speaking in English and asked if we were native speakers. I informed her that I was in fact a native speaker from the United States. She seemed thrilled at this. She then proceeded to ask me if I, or one of my flatmates, would be interested in practicing conversational English with she and her two children. I eagerly answered that I would be interested and we worked out the necessary details.
My first paid job as a teacher. Well, it is more of a tutorship but regardless it is my first paid job as something resembling an educator. Our first session is two days from now and I want to be well prepared. The woman already knows a bit of English and the lessons will be mostly refreshing for her, but I'm not sure of the level of her two sons.
As all good teacher's will tell you, planning is key. So I'm sitting down write now and thinking about how I would like to approach this. I think I'm going to first think of some preliminary questions to gauge the woman's goals for herself and her two sons, then I'm going to work backwards from there. I'll try and think of useful vocabulary topics, common idioms, and important verbs. Also, I'm going to try and include a bit of culture in our lessons. It might very from popular music and television, to current events in the newspapers.
I'm quite excited.
Wish me luck!
Sincerely,
The Optimistic Teacher
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