Wednesday, October 22, 2008

Estoy enseñando español todo la semana.

I got asked to take over for a teacher at Dos Pueblos whose wife just had a baby. Today we are learning how to conjugate -AR verbs, such as "hablar," or "caminar."

For example, "Yo camino en el parque."

This teacher is great, because he leaves incredible notes, has a lot of time filling activities, and I get to actually teach stuff. Some teachers just have me show movies, and that's ok, but not fulfilling.

Today we played Matamoscas (flyswatters). This was a great review game! All the vocabulary words are written on an overhead in a random order around the page. One student from each team comes up with a flyswatter and when I say the word in English, they have to find the word projected up on the overhead in Spanish and swat it first, and then pronounce the word in Spanish. We played for a bunch of rounds and team B killed team A.

I went up against a student and beat him soundly. At the game, mind you, not literally. :)

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