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Post by con's fly is open on Jul 7, 2005 20:35:18 GMT 7
We're moving it to JAPAN? I thought we were moving it to South Korea. Won't work: when we invade, North Korea's in the way. Also a People's Republic, free of Western decadence.
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Post by Mr Nobody on Jul 8, 2005 9:09:16 GMT 7
Oh. I thought the blanket bombing with Neutron bombs would have fixed that. My bad. And now Lager's gone to back to Canada, we lost both our spy network and our agent provocateur whose mission was debasing their fine and ancient culture with decadent western beer. Good point.
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Post by Dragonsaver on Jul 22, 2005 21:03:53 GMT 7
Con I have read all of this thread and may have an idea which could help. First, find out from your TA what things she is interested in and buy her a book about that. Only thing is, she can only read it during class. Next, and most important. Buy an egg timer. Tell the class that the TA won't translate until the egg timer is finished. Then tell the TA she is in charge of turning the egg timer. This should give you the 3 minute egg edge you want/need for them to think!! Also, you could praise her in front of the class as being a good teacher and having an excellent command of the English language. Tell the class that if they listen to you and try and answer without her translating, then they will be as good as her someday. Then use the good old positive reinforcement technique each time she waits to translate.
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Post by con's fly is open on Jul 22, 2005 21:16:36 GMT 7
DS, good advice. In the meantime, she's improved on her own- mostly. Your angle might have accellerated the process.
Meanwhile, my youngest class are getting a constant wave of advice from their parents. I'm eventually gonna have to lay down the law: the parents students are performing better in class, but learning less. The ventriloquism has got to stop. I've been too busy to overhaul my approach, but with the end of the graqd class looming I'll soon have no excuse.
I just had a diabolical idea! I'll bring the kids up to the front and whisper. That'll piss off the rotten old hens in the back.
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