The last week and a half we have been doing a TEFL course. TEFL stands for Teaching English as a Foreign Language. In this course we are trying to learn how to teach English to students in India while only using English to teach them. I thought at first it sounded impossible to be able to teach English to little Indians while only using English and not one bit of Indian. But, over the last week and a half we have learnt how we are supposed to do this and it actually doesn't seem as hard as I thought it would be.
We have learnt many different methods on how to do this. It includes doing nursery rhymes and saying them out loud to the class and explaining the words by making big gestures with our arms and hands and drawing pictures on the board and maybe with pictures that you might bring and show to them.
Other methods include games such as hangman and "granny went to the shop and bought..." and reading out books to the children and slowly explaining it. The story that we are bringing will be different for each person and it will be a maximum of 15 sentences long. We have been going over grammar and the names for different tenses and their type which I find confusing but Eduardo finds it easy as he already did it in English classes in Spain.
On either Wednesday half the class go to an actual class in the language collage to see how it is in a class with foreign students.
Thanks for reading,
Seb.
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