A Random EFL Teacher Muses

What’s logic for you, guys?

Probably something along the lines of “a particular way of thinking, especially one that is reasonable and based on good judgment”. The defininiton is picked ad verbatim from Cambidge Dictionary, btw.

I am going to introduce you to my special brand of logic.

Yesterday evening I received an amazing piece of information: I will have extra students in my B2 class.

Why is that bad? Well, because I had originally been planning to have my group write an article during both lessons. Alas, the extra students hadn’t been taught how to write articles 😱😱😱

Therefore, I had to change my plan. Too bad, right? 😭

But my colleague said that she had ready-made materials for a movie. 💥💥💥 Problem solved? I had thought so too until I saw the materials. In the exercises for the movie the teacher is supposed to talk to the students! The horror! 😵Rest assured, I wasn’t in the mood to talk to them.

And what do I do? Obviously, I go and make my life much harder! (go, me!) Firstly, I make an Alias game out of all their vocab and… 🥁 drum roll! 🥁 I compile a quiz game out of their final course test, some game I found on Quiziz and original tasks!

🍒 You’ll never guess what the cherry on top is… In the end I had to talk to them even more than I would have had to had I taken the movie tasks. Le GASP!

So here is my brand of logic… 🤒

🤔 Why did I do that? Well, frankly, I recalled that the movie is a tad bit boring, and the tasks were with Russian translation (I am not a hater of Russian in English classes, mind you. But my B2 students are genuine B2, they don’t need it, really, especially for movie comprehension tasks). What’s more, I knew that the extra students, as long they are not actively engaged, might misbehave.

🫠The morale of this story is: as long as you can rationalize even the most hair-brained decisions, at least to yourself, go for it! As long as it’s not anything illegal, obviously.

The B2 Grammar Quiz is in the comments.

UPD. Let's make this more logical. My life doesn't follow rules, at least the post will.

If you want tips for organizing such activities online and offline, react with 👍

#work #work_at_school #lesson_materials

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246 viewsYulia Bondarchuk English Teacher, edited  Jun 20, 2024 at 14:29

What’s logic for you, guys?

Probably something along the lines of “a particular way of thinking, especially one that is reasonable and based on good judgment”. The defininiton is picked ad verbatim from Cambidge Dictionary, btw.

I am going to introduce you to my special brand of logic.

Yesterday evening I received an amazing piece of information: I will have extra students in my B2 class.

Why is that bad? Well, because I had originally been planning to have my group write an article during both lessons. Alas, the extra students hadn’t been taught how to write articles 😱😱😱

Therefore, I had to change my plan. Too bad, right? 😭

But my colleague said that she had ready-made materials for a movie. 💥💥💥 Problem solved? I had thought so too until I saw the materials. In the exercises for the movie the teacher is supposed to talk to the students! The horror! 😵Rest assured, I wasn’t in the mood to talk to them.

And what do I do? Obviously, I go and make my life much harder! (go, me!) Firstly, I make an Alias game out of all their vocab and… 🥁 drum roll! 🥁 I compile a quiz game out of their final course test, some game I found on Quiziz and original tasks!

🍒 You’ll never guess what the cherry on top is… In the end I had to talk to them even more than I would have had to had I taken the movie tasks. Le GASP!

So here is my brand of logic… 🤒

🤔 Why did I do that? Well, frankly, I recalled that the movie is a tad bit boring, and the tasks were with Russian translation (I am not a hater of Russian in English classes, mind you. But my B2 students are genuine B2, they don’t need it, really, especially for movie comprehension tasks). What’s more, I knew that the extra students, as long they are not actively engaged, might misbehave.

🫠The morale of this story is: as long as you can rationalize even the most hair-brained decisions, at least to yourself, go for it! As long as it’s not anything illegal, obviously.

The B2 Grammar Quiz is in the comments.

UPD. Let's make this more logical. My life doesn't follow rules, at least the post will.

If you want tips for organizing such activities online and offline, react with 👍

#work #work_at_school #lesson_materials

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