hi, it`s me again, the random guy and his TEFL experience^_^
I`m gonna talk about how podcast can help students in learning English as a foreing language i had to post thisidea on but i couln`t. the page was secured, so i`ll post here my idea^^. as you may know, podcast are digital media files that you can hear on internet, using an Ipod, or a computer directly, but how can it help the English learning and understanding??? simply. Students are motivated with tecnology, so a podcast is much more interesting for them than a written test, or an oral test, students may use podcast to practice their pronunciation, and comunicative skills, by hearing themselves after they talk, ussually when someone talks, he/she doesn`t pay attention to how they say words, neither they pay attention to how they are using words, and making sentences, so they may record themselves using a podcast and then they hear the recorded conversation, phrase, etc... after that they can hear what mistakes are on it and correct them, so podcast are very useful and fun to use when we`re talking about learning another language.
I`ll post here some podcasts links were you can experience by yourselves how fun and useful podcasts can be, so enjoy these
A few years ago, being a teacher was something that people, (or common mortals XD) found to be something admirable. Teachers were considered wise, intelligent, and kind people... Maybe this thing above sounds a bit of another world to you, isn't it?, well, nobody can blame you. Being a teacher in my country is a hard thing, most of the families in my country put their children at school, not because they really want to, but they HAVE by law, to assure education to them, and/or they don't have the time/want to educate them morally...
1) Most social problems come from the education that is imparted to the people of a certain place. This is True. 2)Most families blame teachers for the social problem they are into, because of point number 1 Why do a teacher have to teach a child what his parents are meant to?
As teachers we will have to be aware of our students' situations and stuff like that, but the moral education of a child relies on his/her parents... this is also true.
so, why being a teacher? everybody will blame you for things that little devil-like students do. Angry parents will be happy to burn you on a park, if their kids got pregnant or whatever!because you didn't tell them they would be in trouble if they do that... If parents don't kill you, or neither a heart attack by seeing those little devils burning tires and marching for thing they don't know, you could end up in an asylum or something...nah, just kidding XD
Being a teacher in my country may be a hard, disgraceful, maybe martiric thing to do, but if teachers don't do it...who will?
something has to change about education, parents must (read carefully M-U-S-T-!) have a time with their children, talk to them of THEIR situation, how they feel?, what they expect?,are they really demons? jajaja. If they were no teachers...there would be no education, and education is the most important part of civilization, so in fact, HAIL TEACHERS!,BOW DOWN TO THE TEACHERS!, that are prepared for doing the parents' work without hestitating, that are prepared for (maybe) eternal blame for social situations, HAIL TEACHERS who want to make a change in education, and finally hail for teachers that even knowing this, and suffering for this, they are still at school or universities working the hell out of themselves, without expecting something to change for them, but simply, creating a new society, were parents and teachers could build together, a new generation of wise, happy,(and please! not as demonic) children.
now, something for laguhing a bit... and remember kids... turn off your cellphones before class jeje
As you know, things not always are easy... sometimes things can get a bit hard, but when that happens you'll have to work harder and keep that up.
normally I don't have problems on subjects, because I'm on 1st semester and the teachers are good at explaining, but my problems are on the other side of being a student, the monthly payment... It all started when the day of payment was coming... my dad, who supports me economically on this, couldn't pay the bill, and a few days later he gave me the money to pay the bill, but when i got to the bank the guy on the reception told me that the bill had been rejected, and that i had to go to a notary's office, but they didn't know which office i had to go... so it passed a few more days when the notary sent me a letter which said that the bill was going to be rejected again if I didn't pay it soon, so I ran to the notary's office and when i got there his secretary told me that they sent the bill to another bank, so, I had to ran to the bank to pay the bill again, only to know that the bill was sent again (can you believe that?), So, after I swallowed my rage, I ran again to the other bank only to see it closed until the next Monday... finally on that Monday i could pay the bill but in all the running I couldn't go to classes for a few days and i missed a lot of exams... but in the end i payed the bill so I can keep studying and that is all that matters^^
so when things go wrong, keep running, keep studying, keep fighting and probably yo`'ll get what you want
Hi my name is Francisco, I'm an English teacher student at Ucinf (University of Cience and Informatics) in Chile and this blog is about my experience on TEFL (teaching English as a Foreing Language).
I Chose to be an English teacher, because education in other languages is necesary in any country, and I like languages and work with other people (teaching).
I also like novels and graphic novels, mostly of fantasy or mistery, I like boardgames, wargames and roleplaying games too, My favorite animal is far from others, the wolf, I simply love nature and shamanism, and when it comes to music I like Celt and Etnic music, also i like power metal, and I like many other things that i don't remember right now but maybe we'll talk about that later, so Enjoy^^
