New Day, New Class

Today, I had my second class: Transportation second years again but a different group. The class was at 12 noon, which is usually lunch time for the students. I was wondering if anyone would actually turn up. By 11:55 there was one lad!

But more and more of them started piling in and we had maybe 15 by the time the bell rang. A few late-comers drifted in and we had 20 students in the class in total! Different class totally as there were 60% girls in the class today. So, my notions of talking about soccer every week are out the window with this class! I’ll have to talk about shopping and movie stars (that’s what they sad they like!!! However, in the survey I conducted, all students liked eating and sleeping! So do I, so we have something in common!

The class went better today as I got rid of the "talk about your degree course" thing. I did introductions instead (thanks Ciara and Mei for the idea). They had to talk about themselves to each other in their groups. Afterwards, I asked one person in the group to describe another person in the same group. I think that was OK except that they were speaking some Chinese during the talkie bit and some people were bored when other groups were talking in class. Then I got them to come up with ideas for things they are interested in. I think they are all interested in learning English songs, so I asked them to think about it for next class. I want to teach "Yellow Submarine" byathe Beatles! Simple words and melody and it's also catchy. And above all it's the Beatles and not some crappy manufactured shite. And it has something to do with the sea. This is Dalian Maritime University, after all!

One lad in the class has a mate who is working as a barman in Dublin. He said it was the Liverpool Bar but I have never heard of that, and I have heard of (and drank in) a lot of Dublin pubs. He said the bar bought everyone a pint of Guinness after Liverpool won the Champions League! I was in the wrong pub!!

So, tomorrow I do that routine again with a new class. Then I have to plan the second instalment for the transportation students next week.

I might take the camera outside this afternoon (since it is such a lovely day) and take some snaps of the college and stick them up on the blog.