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I'm now teaching English to small s twice a week.
I feel bit nervous at the moment with this job as I'll have extra s on Monday and I'll teach three times a week instead (I'll have 9 classes a week... pupils are from 4 to 12 the number of s are from 1 to 4 (max))
Something that I want to know are what words, phrase teachers, pupils use at school.
for example
How puplil call their teacher??? Sir, Miss? or Teacher??
How teacher tell ... when they are noisy or he/she wants to make them concentrate/focus on him/her... cos very small kids never have any patiens... Be quiet is too strict, I suppose...
when they finish class, how teacher say? "It's all for today"?
"Off to Go"????
or..
Take a seat.
Put aside or Clean up???? Take off your stuff from you bag...
Please tell me whatever you associate words with school/classrooms
Ta for your help



ps I do hope I have spare time to enjoy here as well as Absolutely Fabulous and Catherine Tate... kind of comedy

I heard on r2 this afternoon that teachers in the uk were supposed to teach phonics first ,all44 sounds so that children should be able to read for themselves
It was a long time ago but I remember we used miss or mrs nantoka sir or mister nantoka when addressing the teachers

Hi Taeko,as far as I can remember,teachers in class are called Miss,Mrs.or Sir,as the case maybe.Getting younger children to be attentive is difficult at the best of times.Clapping your hands together,telling them you would like them all to be seated as you have something important to tell them...ie..get pictures of animals,food,toys,or even landmarks around the world,may just keep them interested enough to hold their attention for more than a few minutes.Class normaly closed with huge encouragement,ie....You all worked so well today...I'm sad class is over for today as I have something so exciting to share with you all..This could be more pictures in preparation for next lesson,keep them interested,if you know what I mean ? hahahahha Just a couple of ideas you may find helpful Taeko.I will be e-mailing you soon.Promise.Take care Love Jackie xxxx

Jackie,
They make me lots of idea how to tell to chick.

Hope chicks do understand those words

How you say to make their stuff tidy, "put aside all your stuff", or "Clean up"?

aarrgggghhhh confusing lol

I'll ask chicks to call me as "Miss" lol

See you soon, Love
Taeko
xxx

Hi Taeko,clear away your things,seems OK ! Then again ,you could scream STUFF,TIDIED,NOW ,PRONTO !!! hhahahahahahhaha Seriously,just stick to clear your personal items away thankyou,they'll like you better miss hahahahhaha Catch you soon.Take care Love Jackie xxxx

could this be of help??
http://esl.about.com/library/weekly/aa040998.htm
http://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/talk/questions/alphabet_2.shtml

Jackie, "Thank" you!
This thread has become more and more schoollife like
...
When child "squeeze" to their friend by mistake, he/she should say "I'm sorry (at the mo, forget about bless you. hll)", then the children who will be spitted/squeezed may say...
"It's okay", or "No problem" Is this fine?
The "grrrrr" thing is that that is I who will tell/teach those phrase at the same time .... AAARRRGGGGHHHH

So, like
I don't understand, wait a minute (hang on), thank you, you're welcome, I'm sorry, Excuse me.... and its react, too... OH NOOOOOOOOOOO.

So, So, if all of you suggest any single words help me a lot

Prof.
for the link, it's also useful, especially first one, I think.
Thank you for your replies in any occasion

Taeko
xxx

Hi Taeko,and lovely to see you here Prof.,it is a problem I confess Taeko,teaching small children who won't understand the phrases in English to begin with.Probably best to chastise in Japanese,then explain how to apologise in English to the child,for example,I'm sorry,please forgive me,I didn't mean to do that (even though he\she did hahahahha) I know your going to be the best teacher,don't worry.Speak soon Love Jackie xxxxx

Yup, Jackie, it's true. For me it's bit hard to do that.
And all my English friends told me that I should not use English, but if I do so, I don't know how to teach them. Cos, I'm Japanese, too. If I were you, I could teach them in English only, but I can't because I don't know much phrases nor words as you're using in everyday life.
And when I speak both English and Japanese, that is I who get confused between langueages lol. One more problem is that s don't know much about Japanese, neither ... Mothers want them to be bilinguals.... I think it's impossible, cos they are Japanese. lol

Anyway, as I mentioned above, if you suggest me everyday words as much as you can, they will help me a lot

Taeko
xxx

Hi Taeko,I do understand your problem.The children are very young.I suggest teaching with pictures for example ... the number 1,shown to the class and say....a picture of a white rabbit....Teaching them in one fair swoop with numbers,colour and the word rabbit ! Taking it slowly seems the way to success.If your not sure about my explanation,please let me know and I'll do my best to simplify ok ? Hope your keeping well.I will be mailing you soon.I'm almost sane again now (Mothers Day is over)hahahahhahaha Take care Love Jackie xxxxxxxxxx

I'm going to Russia over the summer to teach English for two weeks, so I've been learning how to teach English to people who don't speak it very well, without me knowing any Russian. It's quite difficult!

a challenge you will overcome my friend, enjoy your time there

Mmmmmmm,that is a problem Cy.Hopefully your students can teach you Russian as you teach them English.I hope it all goes well for you. ....Hi Prof xxx Hi Taeko,I WILL be mailing you ,soon hahahaha Love Jackie xxx

Hiya all
I'm on spring holidays now
Yeah, the new class will start from the second week of April
(every class to me, both teaching English and LEARING FRENCH, JAPANESE CALLIGRAPHY starts from the same week) So, I'm now absorbed with s lol Finished the Mitford Girls (Japanese version, I can't wait to get original/English version I ordered a few weeks ago), then... now "DAS BUCH HITLER (in Japanese it calls "the Hitler Code")" hahahahah, one of the daughters of the Mitford, Unity, led me to Hitler , though I'm interested in English novels much more than H, or biographies. lol
for all your respons on this thread, all helps me a lot. I write all phrases that you meitioned down to my notebook

Cyzaki, I think, if your student don't understand any single English, then you have to tell them how to say in English when they don't understand what you say, so...
"I don't understand", "Please speak slowly"... kind of phrases as well as greetings otherwise they won't say anything but "yes" or "no" So, it's better for you to study/learn how to say "I don't understand", "Please speak slowly" in Russian, too
I do hope your student will be in elementary or intermediate level, not BEGINNER

I think the Russian students will be all levels - some will be good at English but never heard someone from England speaking English, while some will be beginners. It'll be good fun!

Lucky you, Cyzaki
Enjoy yourself with your students and hope all thing that you'll be done will be your fabulous experiences

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PLEASE TELL ME, when you speak to children as causion, etc...
Mind your step, something like those phrases and
When they are too naughty, how you say to them?
I know it depends what they are doing...
But if you can please tell me some phrases when they are too naughty.

one more thing is how children learn "right (hand side)" and "left (hand side)" .....
Lots of things that I have to learn at the mo

If children are naughty, you say 'No!' or 'Stop that!', or 'If you do that again, you will be punished.'

To learn their left from their right, find out if they write with their left hand or their right hand, then go from there.

Taamyu, easy way for left/right...hold your hands up in front of you, with thumbs facing inwards and fingers upwards, you will notice that your left index finger and thumb make the letter L..therefore left hand

New classes has started
Such active s I've got..... 12 s altogether, though 4 are the max for one class...
New s are very difficult to teach at first.... The difficulty is that they did learn very very slight English words, that makes me more difficult to teach them English cos they don't understand what I say IN ENGLISH..... They only remember alphabet and some noun... But, I'll try to speak to them as all of you here adviced me
Clapping hands is very effective, Pinky
Havnen't started to tell which is left, which is right. But I'll tell them soon with song, "You put out your left hand out..."
dancing and singing is neccesary for them all the time, so, I get really tired after classes
But as my adviced me, I'll keep this with s until I really disguse or can't stand noisy, talkative s and mothers... lol

Hi Taeko,I am thinking of you ,and do try pictures as I suggested earlier,I'm sure it will help too x Keep going girl hahahhaha I'll mail you soon.Spain was wonderful,but sadly,since I returned home,I've been so busy ,I haven't had time to relax yet Taeko hahahahha Mail me if you need any urgent advice with the brats OK ? Take care.Speak soon Love Jackie xxxx