Teaching

Well, I survived my first week of teaching on my own. It wasn't too daunting as the lessons are all fairly straightforward to plan as you follow a set syllabus. I teach preschool in the morning from 9.50 to 12.40. Then I eat lunch with the preschoolers (free lunch is a nice moneysaver). The lunches are usually pretty nice. We always have rice and soup along with 3 or 4 side dishes, including the ubiquitious kimchi.

In the afternoons on Monday, Wednesday and Friday I teach 5 classes of 40 minutes each ranging from complete beginners upwards. I really like my last class of the day, there's only 4 students who are all really nice and they're my most advanced class, so we can have proper conversations in English. My largest class has only 10 students (both preschool classes and my beginners class) and 3 of my classes only have 4 students. On Mondays, we concentrate mainly on conversation, then on Wednesdays you can give the students a worksheet to complete and on Fridays, you can play a game (the students don't realise they are still learning while they are playing a game!)