Only one class

The Saturday started off very early since I have to get up at 5am to get to school by around 8am. And when I got there, it turns out that I didn’t need to get up that early since my only student wasn’t going to be there for the first period. She had to watch a movie with the rest of the class because they will be doing a performance on the play Annie. It should be pretty good and I believe that my student will probably be the lead role Annie. That would be a pretty good guess since her English level is one of the highest in the school. Before the class, I was able to quiz a couple of teachers to see where their English level was and for them to play the game I was going to show MSta. I think they all found it interesting and it was quoted as “nattoku” which means that makes sense. I will introduce a method to improve on the student’s skill of comprehension with special reading techniques that I learned about in the United States.

I think the class went well. She was active and interested the whole time. I was really testing her English ability. I was speaking fast and she was able to keep up and she was able to do all the activities that I have designed for her. I think that she did incredibly well, but only gets tripped up on the vocabulary. Her speed in reading picked up really quick, but now I’ve got to work on her understanding of the materials and for her to be able to use what she knows. I think that the 70 minutes that I taught her wasn’t enough time. I thought that it would be, but it clearly wasn’t. We finished up the slideshow presentation and went over the things a few times. I think that next week we will go back and review a few things, just so she doesn’t forget what we talked about. I have to teach her how to take notes too. I had given her a paper, but she didn’t use it at all, but I think I want to get her how to listen and write at the same time. I think that in two weeks that would be a good lesson, how to take notes. We also covered a sample reading passage from the TOEFL test since I didn’t have any from the Eiken or Entrance Exam readily available. I was a tad bit unprepared, but I think that things still worked out and I think that she will improve with time and practice. We’ll see how things turn up in the coming weeks and the coming months.

After class I was really getting tired. I really didn’t get enough sleep last night and it would have been nice to know that there wouldn’t be a first period for me since I wouldn’t have had to be at school till around 9:30am. That would have been another 2.5 hours in sleep that I could have had.