Thursday, January 6, 2011

What makes it hard

I'm not teaching strict English or grammar, rather trying to clean up
accents and increase familiarity with farangs. Praise be because we
haven't the language to communicate simple directions so "everyone
line up here" devolves to students timidly sitting back down and me
frustrated to screaming.
Thing is, to get participation up, I do the dog and pony clown show,
but instead of breaking the ice and letting otherwise embarrassed
students join in, it gives the too-cool thirteen year old boys in the
back an opening to mouth off and draw in the thirty or forty otherwise
ambivalent students, and in a blink the class is a carniverous mob.

Welcome to Thailand, right?

Sent from Speedy the ipod.

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