At the beginning of class, we checked our students homework and made them come up in front of the class to read it to make them more comfortable talking in front of others. Since a lot of the students didn't attend last class, we had them come up and talk about themselves too. After each student finished talking, we would put up some of the mistakes they had, and let the class correct them. We're still not sure about the number of students in our class, as every class we are joined by new students and some are absent! We also had a student from the Saturday class attend with us.
Our class yesterday was mostly about job applications. We managed to get through the material quite quickly, and decided to have the students come up and act out job interviews and fill out job applications. First, Sakib and I acted out an example of how an interview would go, and then chose two students at a time to come up and do the same. They really enjoyed the acting activity, some of them even asked questions that weren't on the list of questions that we had given them.
Since we got through the material quite early, we decided to go over some of the intermediate vocabulary with them that was related to jobs, and also read some of the intermediate stories with them too. After each story we had a discussion about what happened and what they understood. A lot of the students are still shy, but with a little encouragement they end up participating with us in the discussion.
For next weeks class, we'll have to take a good look over the materials and decide whether we're going to need more since the students are able to finish the activities quickly. The student's seem to like the class and we hope that they will all be here again next week.
-Sara
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