| | GLOBAL VILLAGE
im teaching at a small private english school called global village. It's on the corner of kalakaua and keeamoku in the pacific guardian life tower, right across the street from ala moana center. actually, it's not that small, with about 400 students. i'm surprised there are so many europeans at this school--i think the majority of the students are swiss or japanese--so it makes things interesting.
for the first term, i taught two speaking and listening classes for lower level students, meaning the class was mostly japanese and korean. as a part time job to make a little cash before i start school in the fall, it's a good job--i get $800 for each class i teach and i work from 1-5, monday through thursday teaching my two, two hour classes. it's the prep work and getting ready for the classes that's difficult and time consuming. I guess if i wanted boring classes, i wouldn't have to prepare much, but we're talking about the GTN, the Great Teacher Nakajo, so classes better be damn good.
for the new term, which started yesterday, the school has me teaching grammar and TOEIC classes. first of all, grammar? i don't do grammar. homie don't play that. the kids are in trouble. just the other day in a private lesson, i was teaching the students "how come"
I told her that we can use "how come" in place of "why."
For example, "how come you're not coming with us tonight" can be asked instead of "why aren't you coming with us tonight?" later that day, somebody pointed out to me that "how come" is local pidgin english. ooops.
on my first day of the new term, i had a korean kid challenge me. i was teaching the class "used to...but now" for example:
britney spears used to be cute, but now she's a white, trashy, whorey girl.
another example using the negative:
I didn't use to like girls, until my parents thought I was different so I started making sure they knew that i was into girls, but now things are okay and my parents know that i'm straight.
okay, nevermind, too much information.
anyways, the korean kid asked me why can't we say, I used not to like girls, but now.....
okay, that was just an example using the sentence topic above, but he used his phrase in that grammatical pattern. then another girl, surpisingly, a japanese girl, chirpped in, how about, I used to be not able to like girls, but now....."
I told them I don't think it's right and they asked me "how come?" okay, i'm kidding, they didn't ask how come, they asked "why?" I had no way of explaining why it was wrong, actually who knows, it could be gramatically correct, so I just told them that it sounds funny.
my two first term classes
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| | Posted 6/6/2007 11:01 PM - 5 Views - 4 eProps - 4 comments
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