A day in the life of a TEFL student

Andy's monster drawing

 We've now almost completed our 3rd week of the TEFL program, and this whole week was all about teaching children. That meant a lot of games, drawings, and general silliness on our parts. One of the first warm-up activities Francesca (our instructor) had us do this week was a "monster activity."

My monster drawing

 We, the students, took turns drawing 1 card each from 2 separate piles, one with numbers on the cards, and one with body parts. For example, I could draw both a "3" and then "eyes" and everyone in the class would add 3 eyes to their monster. We then named our monsters, gave them a home planet, and named 1 thing they eat and another thing they like.

Mine and Erienne's monster drawings side by side

 This is a great activity to do with small children who are reviewing numbers and/or parts of the body (and to be honest, we all enjoyed it far too much, and we're all 20+). Andy drew a particularly ugly monster that was from Kentucky and that eats cats. I was flattered, naturally.

Andy in the "hot seat"

 We also played a game (well, one of many) called the Hot Seat. One person sits in a chair facing away from the board and someone else draws a picture (or writes) on the board behind them. The class then has to give hints to the person in the hot seat so they can guess the answer. It's a really good game to get everyone in the class speaking English out loud and to teach adjectives and descriptive terms.

HILARIOUS face + John Bouse

 The best turn was when Andy had to guess "John Bouse." He asked the class if he was alive (to rule out inanimate objects) and Stuart's reply of "possibly" lead Andy straight to Bouse (and left us all in a fit of giggles - Francesca included.) *If you don't understand that joke, check out my previous post!

Charles and his thinking pose

This week has been pure entertainment; between games of 20 Questions, Duck Duck Goose, betting games, and nearly every other children's game you can think of, we also had to teach a class. Our classmates were the students (we set the age) and we taught a shirt, 30 min class. For mine, everyone was 5 years old, and it was pandemonium. Stuart wouldn't stop eating his m&m's for the activity (though I asked him to multiple times), he kept referring to me as "mummy", coloring got a little out of control, and "shit" was said quite a lot. We really are just a group of kids stuck in grown-up bodies.