Every Thursday from 7:00-9:00 I teach an adult English conversation class at the local community center on the other side of the river (it's not that far; I used to bike when it was warmer). My class size ranges anywhere from 4 to 12 students on a given week. The English level in my class varies...a lot. I have people who have studied English for years and I have others who can barely do a simple self-introduction. Usually by Thursday, I'm worn out from the week and I complain a lot before going to teach this class, but it is by far my most enjoyable class I teach.
Every week we do something different--I get to make the lesson plans for a 2 hour class. Sometimes we just play games. Sometimes we just do interviews. Sometimes we watch movies. Tonight we did storytelling.
I cut out 21 random pictures from old newspapers I had lying around the house. I had groups of 3 pick 7 pictures...and then told them to tell a story using the pictures. They took a long time to do this. I thought of multiple stories for each set of pictures in the time it took for them to write one. We had a war love story which was quite creative. We had a panda who became a boy and grew up and got married and had a son who played college football and went on to become a NBA player. Then we did a collective class story with all 21 pictures which involved a stranded plane and a time travelling car. Needless to say, it was an interesting night of English conversation.
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