BINGO and ESL

You may or may not know that on Monday nights I teach an adult ESL (English as a Second Language) class in Coffeyville. It has been quite a success because we keep having more and new people each week. My friend Rachel and I do it together. She's the brains behind the operation because she's been practicing her Spanish a lot and has an ESL/Teaching degree...which i don't have.

I started this with the intention of practicing my Spanish and practicing teaching. It wasn't at all like I expected but it is a good learning experience. We try to think of practical lessons for the adults because they work a lot and they all have children so they are busy. They don't want to be bogged down with proper this and proper that, so we try to make lessons about words and phrases they need to know on a day to day basis.

This week i was really nervous about class because I was going to have to teach by myself. But it actually went very well. My broken spanish/ spanglish was well received and it seemed everyone had a lot of fun. There is a particular student who loves to play BINGO and every time we play, she is not there. On Monday we finished the the previous week's lession by playing BINGO and she happened to be there! She hadn't been the last two weeks. Once the first person got a BINGO she wanted to play blackout. So we played BINGO with fruits and vegetables for an hour.

Next week we don't have class because of Labor Day and the week after that is the last week. The program is being sponsered by a government grant and i am only contracted until the 13th. There isn't a teacher lined up after me and the company will not start looking until after i'm done (This seems silly to me). The adults were without a class for a while and they wanted it back. Now it's back, but it's going away. so is life. If anyone knows someone who would like to teach Adult ESL, let me know!