2010-02-10(Wed)
The other day, my family went to a shopping mall. My husband wanted to have Chinese noodle at the mall because there're some famous noodle restaurants. My son and I planned to watch a Power Ranger movie which he had been eager to watch. In fact, it was the first time for him, so I was a little bit worried he would concentrate on watching, and I hoped he wouldn't bother others.
Luckily, a boy who was next to my son was so friendly, the boy and my son hit it off before long. :D
In the middle of the movie, I heard some strange mumblings from my behind. A guy seemed to mumble after the lines, so I though he tried to explain the story to his kid. However, he didn't seem to talk to his kid. He talked to himself...Xl At the climax of the movie, he tried to say sound effects to add to the lines. He appeared to be odd....At the end of it, my son noticed the guy and said, " Too noisy to watch! mom." The boy (who sit next to my son) also said to his dad, "Noisy! dad!" To my shame, they were right; nevertheless, I wasn't able to say to the guy anything....That was because I didn't want to involve in that kind of person......Xl
If you were, what would you do?
2010-02-07(Sun)
Yesterday, I gave my English lessons to two kids as I mentioned before. Their mother has a full-time job. After working in the morning, she took her kids to the local facility where I teach English. :D Thank you so much.
When the kids entered, they seemed to be a little nervous. However, they enjoyed my English lessons before long. ;D To my pleasure, they said they really enjoyed themselves and wanted to learn my English lessons as soon as possible. XD I was so glad to hear. It's rewarding as an English teacher.
According to their mother, she had planned to enter my English class, so she wanted to know my lessons on detail.
I hope they'll be absorbed in learning English. :D
2010-02-05(Fri)
I've been advertising my English class for this year, so I often distribute many fliers these days. I've already opened lessons for kids. To add to the lessons, I'm supposed to open for adult classes this April. That's why I've been swamped with my work, including distributing fliers for my classroom.
Today, I distributed fliers on foot. It took more time to finish than I had expected. ^^; (It took about 3 hours for 1,000 fliers!!!) It was like exercise walking. haha
After distributing the fliers, I was exhausted....^^; When I was a student, I wasn't tired even if I walked that amount of time.....I seem to be lack of exercise....or.....I'm getting old...Yes...That's true...T T
Well, I'm going to give two trial lessons to kids, who are a 5-year-old boy and an 8-year-old girl, tomorrow. :D I'm thrilled to meet them.
2010-02-04(Thu)
As I've been tied up with my work, preparations for trial lessons and so on, I felt emotionally exhausted these days. However, my English clubs members and people who I met for the first time braced me up. :D
When I'm utterly exhausted, I try to meet my friends or take part in some events to feel refreshed. These days, I met a few new people. They're, of course, interested in English, one of whom is my senior teacher. We got to know through our company's meetings. As for the others, they took part in our English club or a free conversation class. They seems to be ordinary meetings, but it's indispensable for me. In fact, those meetings gave me energy as if I was rejuvenated. :D
Thanks, everyone!
2010-02-01(Mon)
I've been reconsidering my routine study of English to improve my English skills.
Here is my routine study of English, including English clubs.
1, Reading English news papers. (I mainly read The Japan Times.)
2, Listening to an English radio program, which is for advanced level, with a text book.
3, Writing my journals in English and having them corrected by native English speakers.
4, Listening to CNN or BCC.
5, Taking part in a few English clubs to practice speaking English.
6, Watching the evening news in English.
As for NO.2, I wonder if I make the best use of it..... To built a bigger vocabulary and enhance my listening skill, I started to listen to the radio program. (Actually, I'd been hesitant to listen to the program with the text book because some sentences are relatively complicated and I hardly express in these ways. However, I changed my mind and decided to start to learning...)
I check new words and expressions, listen to the program, try to repeat after the voice and then read a vignette aloud. I'm not sure whether those ways are suitable to me. I meant even if it's a good text book and radio program, it would be inefficient when I adopt unsuitable ways for me...
What do you think?
