Thursday, January 31, 2008

creative flexibility

so because i'm working with adults i can exercise some creative flexibility. it's actually pretty cool because i ran it by my head teacher today and he approved. i want to make english more functional so i gave them topics to discuss at the beginning of class. of course when i say topics, i don't mean like...politics etc...but i mean their first topic was vacation. then they have to come up with 3 questions each. i'm thinking about family as the next topic. if anyone else has any suggestions for topics please please please comment!!

as for another idea that i kinda like. (we'll try it tomorrow) is role playing. we're learning about the hand, foot and body. so i thought we could have patient and doctor. so someone talks about symptoms, and the other one will ask what else hurts? how did you get hurt? etc...that way they can use stomach, head, hand, finger, toes, neck, hips, etc...in a functional way. something that might be useful to them in the future. next i'm thinking about ordering food/shopping as another role play. any idea on how i should role play learning shapes? i welcome suggestions!!!

as for the other big news for the day...I found a guitar school!! YAY!! lol it's 1 hour 3x a week. it's between work and home. $100 a month. that's a freaking sweet deal right?! they also teach drums there. i'm like ohhhh man i might think about learning that sometime. so MWF are lessons and TTh are practice times for me. we tried another place this morning. but it was a classical guitar studio. classical guitar is WAY cool, it sounds amazing, people who can play are amazing but it's not for me. i kept thinking about it like...should I spend $120 a month doing something that is SO HARD that it takes 2 hours a day just trying to keep my hands a certain way. Rock guitar is so much cooler. they have a fender strat at my school but i think i'm gonna bring my gibson anyway. my teacher doesn't know much english but i'm assuming music is universal so hopefully it'll go smoothly. he plays funk, jazz, blues, rock, etc... i can't wait to start. tomorrow my first lesson is at 12pm. finally...i'm getting things set up in korea!! :)

1 comment:

luman said...

i will team you drums. rock band drums.