English class

Except Computer class, I also started teaching English class. Well, not on a regular basis, just to help out Eliab, the regular English teacher, while he prepares for his exams. My methods are a bit different from Eliab. I noticed that he concentrates more on grammar and less on conversation. The result is that the women know irregular verbs by heart, but they have difficulties in putting a sentence togehter. That's why I decided to focus more on conversation. And did I hit the jackpot. 

The girls now seem to completely forget about the Computer class and want to focus only on English. In fact, we skipped Computer class altogether last week, to focus more on English. Some of them still don't have enough vocabulary to actively participate in the conversation, so I usually say/ask something in English, one of the girls translates it to Kinyarwanda, they first answer in Kinyarwanda and then we try to put the sentence together in English. For now we are doing great, but I'm running out of themes I can cover for vocabulary. We already did „colors“, „fruits&vegetables“, „clothes“, „sports“, „geography“, „getting around town“, „time“, „sewing“, „animals“... Also, sometimes I hate how I forget myself and act like I'm still in Europe. When we were talking about sports I just went on and on: „Yeah, we have football, basketball, handball, swimming, waterpolo, skiing, ski jumping...“ Then I see the confused look on their faces: „Ok, sorry. Forget about skiing and waterpolo.“

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