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In the library again. Randomness...
You know, they may have been joking, but when I was out with P and M the other night, they told me that they thought I should teach the beginning Dutch class when I go back to Florida. That had never occurred to me - and really, they were probably joking - and I didn't really 'register' the thought at the time, but now that I've thought about it for a few days, I think I'd actually like it a lot. My Dutch will be almost perfect by then (I hope, haha, after 10 more months!) so I could definitely teach a class of people that don't know *any* Dutch, and people have told me all my life that I'm a "natural teacher", so I always thought maybe I'd do that someday... and I've got a lot of ideas for things to do. For example, a short writing assignment every night - *very* short, like 5 sentences or something - instead of a bunch of book exercises. Writing is an "active" skill, like speaking, and you remember things you do actively much better than things you do passively (e.g. things you read). Plus, 90% of people are extremely visual and do better when they can see things, so having to come up with sentences on your own and then write them down makes them "stick" better in your brain than things like filling in blanks in a workbook. Another idea: questions. People always have questions and then either forget them or decide not to ask them, so my idea is to have the students have to bring in a question every day. It can be about anything - grammar, Dutch culture, scheldwoorden, a specific word, anything. For instance, someone could be doing their writing assignment and then they think, "Hmm, if this were English, I'd say this with '-ing', but I don't know how to do that in Dutch." Boom, there's their question for the next day - how do you form the gerund in Dutch? So then we can work on "aan het ___" and "zitten te ___" and so forth. And if they *have* to form a question, it makes them think more about what they know and don't know with regard to the language - and not only that, but you almost always remember the answers to questions that *you* yourself ask (but you might not remember the answer if, for example, you read it somewhere). Plus it's a way to get even the shyer people to participate. And songs, too - I always learn a lot of words that way... OK, OK, whoa, sorry, I'm getting carried away here. I don't even know if this interests anyone at all, but I've been lying awake the past couple of nights thinking about it.
Other news - I'm going to Auschwitz on Wednesday! Well, actually Thursday, but the journey begins on Wednesday. :) There's something with the route, though - they don't have all of it in the computer or something - so the woman sold me tickets to Katowice and back but couldn't give me the last leg, from there to Oswiecim. She told me I could buy that in Duisberg, my first stopover. Shouldn't be a problem, I guess... we shall see. :)
Hey Mom, I bought some black-and-white film for that trip, but I made sure to get one that said C-41 on the box - so that means they can develop it normally even though it's B&W, right?
We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz...
In the library again. Randomness...
You know, they may have been joking, but when I was out with P and M the other night, they told me that they thought I should teach the beginning Dutch class when I go back to Florida. That had never occurred to me - and really, they were probably joking - and I didn't really 'register' the thought at the time, but now that I've thought about it for a few days, I think I'd actually like it a lot. My Dutch will be almost perfect by then (I hope, haha, after 10 more months!) so I could definitely teach a class of people that don't know *any* Dutch, and people have told me all my life that I'm a "natural teacher", so I always thought maybe I'd do that someday... and I've got a lot of ideas for things to do. For example, a short writing assignment every night - *very* short, like 5 sentences or something - instead of a bunch of book exercises. Writing is an "active" skill, like speaking, and you remember things you do actively much better than things you do passively (e.g. things you read). Plus, 90% of people are extremely visual and do better when they can see things, so having to come up with sentences on your own and then write them down makes them "stick" better in your brain than things like filling in blanks in a workbook. Another idea: questions. People always have questions and then either forget them or decide not to ask them, so my idea is to have the students have to bring in a question every day. It can be about anything - grammar, Dutch culture, scheldwoorden, a specific word, anything. For instance, someone could be doing their writing assignment and then they think, "Hmm, if this were English, I'd say this with '-ing', but I don't know how to do that in Dutch." Boom, there's their question for the next day - how do you form the gerund in Dutch? So then we can work on "aan het ___" and "zitten te ___" and so forth. And if they *have* to form a question, it makes them think more about what they know and don't know with regard to the language - and not only that, but you almost always remember the answers to questions that *you* yourself ask (but you might not remember the answer if, for example, you read it somewhere). Plus it's a way to get even the shyer people to participate. And songs, too - I always learn a lot of words that way... OK, OK, whoa, sorry, I'm getting carried away here. I don't even know if this interests anyone at all, but I've been lying awake the past couple of nights thinking about it.
Other news - I'm going to Auschwitz on Wednesday! Well, actually Thursday, but the journey begins on Wednesday. :) There's something with the route, though - they don't have all of it in the computer or something - so the woman sold me tickets to Katowice and back but couldn't give me the last leg, from there to Oswiecim. She told me I could buy that in Duisberg, my first stopover. Shouldn't be a problem, I guess... we shall see. :)
Hey Mom, I bought some black-and-white film for that trip, but I made sure to get one that said C-41 on the box - so that means they can develop it normally even though it's B&W, right?
We're off to see the Wizard, the wonderful Wizard of Oz...
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