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27 mai 2013

Don't talk rubbish. Please.

Discussion with my computer students about statistics. "When we say 'Sales have picked up', what does that mean? Are sales going up or down?" "Miss, 'pick up' means 'ramasser' in French." "Right, and when we pick something up, what do we do with it?"...

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Tags: bin, students, up, computer, pick, discussion, sales, statistics

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15 avril 2013

Who let the kids out?

Last Thursday, I was called in to replace a sick colleague on a school trip. The idea was to take a class of 14-year-olds to visit the remains of a sugar-cane factory, a copra dryer and a museum about ylang-ylang flowers and vanilla. Two teachers, twenty-nine...

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Tags: mayotte, girl, class, pupils, school, boy, photo, coconut, ylang, students, oil, vanilla, distillery, copra, jimaweni, mtsangamouji, museum, soulou, sugar, trip

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21 février 2013

Things students say...

I was happily teaching my students all about various states, cities, monuments and cultures of the United States of America. Then I gave them a test... and as usual, I didn't recognize my original lesson at all. I have now learnt that... Per year, Yellowe...

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Tags: house, pupils, school, teacher, lesson, white, students, work, america, barack, obama, usa

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14 février 2013

Hot Blushes

I started drama lessons with the kids this afternoon. The first task was an improvisation sketch in small groups: you have just received an anonymous Valentine's card. How do you react? One girl beckoned me over and said: "Miss, I can't do this." "Why...

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Tags: black, school, white, students, valentine, kids, blush, drama, improvisation, theatre, red

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28 janvier 2013

Training the Future

Just before the Christmas holidays, the company I work for outside school asked me to teach English to a group of students training to become computer technicians. A group of ten to fifteen people aged anywhere between 16 and 40, whom I would be teaching...

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Tags: pupils, teacher, saturday, students, computer, group, daesa, infrared, keyboard, morning, printer, vocabulary

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21 janvier 2013

Right. Where do I start?

I am frequently asked what my students' level of English is like. It is, after all, their third language after Shimaorese and French... and it's not as though they speak the first two properly. English is very difficult for most of the kids. Their fluency...

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Tags: school, teacher, english, students, test, word, bob, both, culture, elvis, language, marley, neither, noun, presley, verb, whereas

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8 octobre 2012

Let the Teacher do the Work

Recently, I've been taking my kids into the computer room. For a start, there are 15 computers, 4 of which don't work but which all the kids absolutely want to try anyway, "I'm sure I can make it work, Miss". Of course, they can't, so we all get frustrated....

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Tags: mayotte, mzungu, school, teacher, students, computer, finish, headache, kids

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1 mars 2012

What Emily Did

Several things have happened at school recently. The second term has just finished, so we’ve been having conseils de classe, end-of-term reunions of all the teachers for each class plus two class-elected students. It’s a time to see how each student’s...

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Tags: indian ocean, mayotte, death, boat, sea, inspection, students, anjouan, clandestine, immigration, kwassa

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14 février 2012

Inspector Valentine

I’m being inspected today. Inspections in the French education system aren’t like Ofsted ones: there’s only one inspector at a time, usually, and he or she’s only coming to inspect one particular teacher over one hourly period. The teacher is warned a...

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Tags: school, lesson, inspection, marks, ofsted, plan, sleep, students, tuesday, valentine

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