Job offer: Teaching English in Neubrandenburg, December 7 through Dec 23, 2009

[RimcMullen]

Hi Rolf

Please read the previous posts. I have already confirmed this course.

Best regards
Richard

[Lars Lange]

Hi Richard,
do you at the moment in Neubrandenburg?

Lars

[RimcMullen]

Hi Rolf

I am already scheduled for this one. they may have something in the new year though.

Best regards
Richard

[RimcMullen]

Hi Lars

How are you? Yes I am working now in NB so it's a bit too far to travel down to NH. I will be coming up here again Dec 6 to 23 so i don't think i will make it down there. I miss you all though and remember fondly our weekend trips into the Harz.

Hi to all :)

[RimcMullen]

We began Monday morning with a warm-up writing activity – the students did a summary review of the movie they watched on Friday (Born to be Wild 2007), staring John Travolta and Tim Allan. From the reviews it sounded quite funny. We continued with a review of the present continuous using the language of feelings and emotions.

We then continued on with Unit 13 from New Headway Elementary which focuses on indentifying adjectives and adverbs and using them properly. We did a lot of practice sentences.

On Tuesday we continued with the lesson and introduced the gerund for rteh first time which took some explaining but in the end the students began to understand why annoying was different from annoyed. I put a simple formula on the board for those that needed one … because the …….. is/are …….ing, the wo/man was …….ed for regular verbs. This seemed to clear things up for now.

We then did a red riding hood type story to practice using adverbs of feeling and the students re-told the story in the past tense and then told the class their own story. This was followed by a sentences (12) in a hat game.

On Wednesday, we started with a short holiday storey puzzle from Reward resource Elementary. We the did a talk about past vacations before we started the last unit from NHE Have You Ever which introduced the present perfect with ever, never, yet and just for talking about travel. The last part of the unit contrasts the past simple with present perfect.

On Thursday, we finished the last unit on NHE which had no particular Grammar focus and used a song (Leaving on a Jetplane) and some travel situations to practice travel vocabulary.

On Friday, we reviewed more of the present perfect talking about lifetime achievements and then and began reviewing all the units to prepare for the final test. I used some material from World English 1 – a brand new series just released from Thomson-Heinle ELT which includes video segments from National Geographic.

We had some fun with these and I had the students write down specific points and then form questions to ask other students questions. The Movie for the afternoon was Catch me if you Can which fortunately, has a small Christmas scene.

[RimcMullen]

Monday December 21

We began the day talking about winter solstice and being thankful we have finally reached the shortest day of the year.
We are finished our text now and concentrating on review. I reviewed prepositions with their verbs and then we reviewed possessives and question words using WE1 Unit 7 about possession. In the afternoon we did a practice test and marked it together to help identify problem areas and to prepare for the final test tomorrow.

Tuesday, December 22

Today we reviewed the present perfect as some of the students had trouble on this area during the practice test. I used a A2/B1 level Unit from Worldlink 1 which practices the use of present perfect in questions and answers during the preparation for a trip to Mexico. We also used some workbook exercises from World English 1 using the language of lifetime achievements for a job interview.

Wednesday, December 23

We did the test in the morning and marked it as well. In the afternoon we watched another Xmas movie Santa Who? until it was time to go.