Category: Student

Student home

8/1/2012

We sent out student from France home on Monday.

It was a good experience having him here for the past three weeks. He learned some idioms, different short expressions, and had lots of experience practicing his English.

The lad had fun asking him questions and learning different things about France.

Struggling with Lessons

7/17/2012

We have a student living with us from France for almost three weeks this summer.

Part of his time here is to do lessons in learning how to speak English. Neither of us are particularly happy with the lessons provided so I'm attempting to supplement those lessons. My problem is I don't know how. I don't quite get how to teach conversational English to a young man who knows a great deal, but is missing some of the finer aspects.

So I was searching through some of my PDF's that I've collected over the last couple of years for teaching the lad and came up with a story for teaching action words.

I thought, why not change it into a fill in the blank.

It's simple, it's meant for children as opposed to teens but it might provide some challenge and perhaps laughter while learning. I don't know.

Anyways, here's what I came up with I can't link to a PDF until I upgrade this site so you'll have to make do with my copy and paste jobbie. :)

Fill in the blanks.

One ________________ (time period)while I was __________ through the woods (verb)
I _____________ (verb) a rustle in the _________ (noun). As I got closer a little bunny __________(verb) out on the path. The bunny _________ (verb)me and _________ (verb) __________ (number)times to get back in the ________ (place). The bunny ________ (verb)from
me because he was ________(emotion). I kept __________ (verb)until I came to a _______ (Place).
At the edge of the _________(same place) a _______________ (descriptive word)snake ____________ (verb) beside me. I don't like snakes so I _____________(verb) on a _________ (thing).
My house is in the __________(place) so I ______ (verb) home and _______ (verb)my _______ (person).