7/30/2006
teaching america
One of my favorite classroom activities is something called a song cloze, which consists of me picking one of my favorite songs, finding the lyrics online, creating a worksheet with most of the lyrics and blanks for the rest, playing the song a few times for my class, and then discussing the new vocab and the meaning of the song. My friend Amy claims that America by Simon and Garfunkel is the greatest song for a song cloze because it can be connected to just about any lesson topic you can think of. I'm not sure I agree, but I'm not sure I disagree either. Upon hearing her make this bold claim I started to work up a lesson on it in my head. Actually, now that I'm back in the states for the summer I've been thinking a lot about how I'm going to teach differently next year. One thing I regret from my first year of teaching in Budapest is how much I relied on my own ideas and activities. My teaching was ok this year, but it would have been so much better if I'd had more conversations with Amy and other great teachers. So, in the spirit of being more collegial, anybody have some great ideas for teaching ESL or literature?
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I have saved all my lesson plans from the following year, and have organized them into two gigantic binders of "Lazy Teacher" goodness. I also want to teach a literature class next year, and that I haven't figured out how to do yet, but let's talk and swap some ideas so we never have to plan our own lessons AGAIN! So how are the new peeps joining us? How's training? SMIF? Peaceout
Hi Matt, it is interesting to read your blog, I was trying to find your email address to write you a note.
Question: Can you give me the address of the Scottish Presbyterian Church in Budapest?
I seem to remember seeing it close to Andrassy ut and Sziv utca?
Thanks,
M.
St. Columba's Scottish Presbyterian Church
Budapest VI. Vörösmarty u. 51
Tel./Fax: 246-2258
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