Ahhhhh......well then they start adding the 3 and 4 letter words together to make some simple sentences
The main difficulty they seem to be encountering at the moment is the similiarity between the vowel sounds. So pin becomes pen and pen becomes pin etc.
Zippyt, you are soo right. I have in fact decided that as of next week I am driopping friday down to a half day. From now on Friday afternoons are mine all mine *smiles*
I should not by rights have been teaching full on this first month. One of the tutors has been off sick for four and a half weeks with a really nasty infection and since the Chamber ( the place I work) is short staffed to begin with this meant I was invited to jump in at the deep end if I felt able to and take on the pre entry group. I am so glad I did. It's been good fun and the students are lovely.........I will however be glad ( as well as a little sad :P ) when Kieren returns and is able to do the bulk of the teaching with the pre entry group.
One of the things I love most about this job is meeting people from different countries. All three groups spend some time in the main classroom together ( with one or another group going off to the little classroom for more intensive lessons when needed) this means we often have various levels of ability present at any one time and the more able act as interpreters for the least able. We have Hindi speakers, Punjabi speakers, Farsi speakers, Kurdish speakers, Arabic speakers and a french speaker from the Congo. At times it resembles the tower of Babel *smiles*