Week 4

Our last class was quite different in comparison to the past three weeks. I think this was because the topic for the week was a lot harder - we were learning how to fill in job applications and understanding the concept of a job interview. Also, typically it is both of us teaching together and explaining the materials at the same time. However, since this class we had to each interview a learner for our final project, I taught alone for half the class, while Abaan taught alone for the rest. 

This class has been the most challenging for me as a teacher, because the learners did not seem to understand how a job interview is conducted. Even though all of them had experienced an interview before, whenever I tried to do an activity from the materials with them, I was faced with silence. Unusually, no one volunteered, no one shouted out answers, and no one seemed to know what they were doing. As a result, we did not cover as much material as we usually do in class, and only focused on different jobs and the abilities required to do them.

The end of the class was more fun though, and less serious and frustrating than earlier. We talked to the learners about ourselves. I answered a lot of their questions about myself and my life in Doha. They shared many new interesting things about themselves and we even got a little performance out of it!

~ Reham