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13 octobre 2014

The United Gingdom, a guided tour. From the Palace of Wismmister to Wenstre Game.

The United Gingdom, a guided tour. From the Palace of Wismmister to Wenstre Game.

I've been working on the British monuments and flags with my kids. The test was at the end of last week, just before the holidays which have just started. The moment of truth, when I get to see what they've remembered from my naturally scintillating lesson....

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Tags: school, teacher, country, lesson, english, students, state, england, america, city, 10 downing street, badminton, buckingham palace, canada, mexico, nice, tower of london, union jack, westminster abbey

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29 septembre 2014

Urahafu Na Unono

Urahafu Na Unono

On Friday, following various complaints from teachers regarding the dirtiness of the school as a whole and the rooms in particular, one of my colleagues launched "Operation Urahafu Na Unono", or "Operation Cleanliness" in the school. This operation had...

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Tags: kawéni, school, teacher, white, clean, board, window, brush, floor, mop, sponge, stairs, tidy, urahafu na unono

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15 septembre 2014

Cats and Miss.

School's been back for three weeks now. I've met all my classes, and there's everything from sweetness and light to ear-splitting caterwauling in there. These are some photos of my school. Right at the top is the tropical almond (Terminalia Catappa, if...

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Tags: mayotte, cat, food, dress, salouva, kawéni, pupils, school, teacher, tree, students, miss, building, badamier, litter, mew, playground

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8 septembre 2014

The beginning of the end: my last back-to-school rush in Mayotte.

The beginning of the end: my last back-to-school rush in Mayotte.

School started again on August 25th. In Mayotte, the teaching profession has one of the highest turnovers I've ever seen. This year, only three new colleagues joined the English-teaching ranks in my school. Two had been teaching in various lycées before...

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Tags: mayotte, black, class, pupils, school, teacher, white, table, students, computer, back to school, european, board, chair, classroom, videoprojector

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7 avril 2014

Look at the makis!

Look at the makis!

I teach kids in school, but I also teach adults in a training centre about half an hour away. My current groups belong to a local construction society, so we spend hours talking about excavators, compactors, bulldozers, the difference between a Manitou...

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Tags: teacher, lesson, english, time, maki, students, group, adult, mother, lemur, line, phone, stop, tail, tummy, young

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27 janvier 2014

Cyclone Alert

Last week, we had a cyclone exercise at school. Much more interesting than your average fire drill, where everyone just lines up under the big tree in the playground, and not as awkward as the earthquake simulation, where they all have to fit under the...

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Tags: mayotte, school, teacher, quiet, lessons, test, kids, activity, alert, cyclone, exercise, instructions, vice-rectorate

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25 novembre 2013

Whodunnit

I'm working on crime at the moment with my students. In the first lesson, they came up with crime vocabulary in French and looked up the English words in the dictionary. Experience must have spoken because the first words they said were "rape" and "pedophile"....

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Tags: pupils, school, lesson, english, students, burglary, court, crime, fingerprints, pedophile, police, rape, scene, silence, whodunnit

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30 septembre 2013

Parent-Teacher Meeting

Parent-Teacher Meeting

It was National Parent-Teacher Meeting Day on Saturday. You can thank the Vice-Rectorate for that. What a mess. It started off innocently enough. Instead of each school organizing its own PT meeting, the high education authority in Mayotte decided to...

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Tags: mayotte, pupils, school, teacher, children, group, individual, explain, homework, meeting, middle, mother, parent, primary, secondary

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16 septembre 2013

A European In Mayotte

A European In Mayotte

In my opinion, healthy food is the best. I don't think junk food is better, because it's too fatty and unhealthy. Personally, I like healthy food because it's full of vitamins, it's more natural. I wouldn't say it's the cheapest or quickest but nevertheless,...

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Tags: food, class, school, teacher, english, students, test, euro, european, section, strict

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9 septembre 2013

Scientific Minds

Scientific Minds

I've been teaching English to an adult student for about a year and a half now. He's the director of the local branch of an international building and public works company. He has individual lessons twice a week with me, so he's been teaching me all about...

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Tags: teacher, lesson, english, work, group, building, bitumen, director, hazard, individual, pothole, public, soil

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