Finally..

Finally it is time for me to sit down I have been quite busy all day long so time to make coffee put feet up and relax, or at least sit in front of the computer checking my emails and stuff hahaha!! My private student went home just to study up ready for Monday’s class, we’re going to start working on grammar for business English. I already have the material and she is going to make some photocopies for herself from my book. She is working with jewels at the moment and teaching biology. Apparently she speaks fluent French too, wasted on me though as I passed on French the moment I had the option in High school all those years ago. Nice for Roberta as she has wanted to study French for a long time, just that now she doesn’t have free time for this. Maybe at the end of the semester or the new year, who knows.

My second conversation class was about advertising. I had already prepared the material and worksheets so nothing to get stressed about. A couple of my old students came to watch today, very nice! As an extra activity for the end of the class, I had searched out some crazy adverts that people had posted in newspapers or magazines from the net and printed them off for the students to read through and discuss. Some of the ads were for things like ’second-hand tombstones’ and ‘time traveling’, etc. There are some really crazy people out there hahaha! On Monday I’ll start planning the next one, I have no idea what I’ll do yet.  Maybe something about UFO’s, etc. It depends what I have the most material prepped come Monday

First post…

Today I finally found time to get into WordPress and post my first post I was using Blogger but decided to have a change and also I want to use wordpress with some of my students as part of trying out some Web 2.0 stuff. I’ve been interested in using Web 2.0 sites in class for quite some time, mainly my students tend to use Orkut a lot here in Brasil, but it’s not really a good social networking site – lots of viruses and stuff. In the blogroll I listed a few that I’m really into at the moment. Twitter is one of my favorites, it’s very addictive.

 This afternoon all of the groups of students at CCAA had a lanche (a snack break?). It was a lot of fun – lots of Coca Cola – and I took my camera to take a couple of photos… and forget to use it hahahaha!! Never mind, they have these things quite often. All the classes on Friday afternoons are three hour classes so its nice to have a break and eat something half way through. My class on Friday afternoon is MEC (Master English Course) and mainly teenagers, they are a lot of fun. They’ve been my students for quite some time and we are comfortable with one another. I teach mainly advanced groups, as well as business English and conversation classes. When we have one of these Roberta and I usually bake a cake to take along, this time was chocolate and lemon cream, there was none left at the end so I guess everyone liked it I haven’t eaten anything this evening after all the food from earlier on, I think it’ll just be liquid food like coffee or tea for the rest of the day