Lol, when I edited his paper, I wrote that he should write in the “Title” of the article as part of the introduction. Unfortunately, He copied me exactly (almost) and wrote, ‘In the article, “tittle.”‘ So when another student copied the exact same introduction, “tittle” carried over. 0_0 If you’re going to copy, don’t mis-spell obvious words. It makes me look
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Soooooo Tired. . . . -_-
13 Dec0_0 Tomorrow was supposed to be devoted to grading. Now I’m meeting Betty at 1, Joseph at 5, Alice at 7, Editing 6 papers, and Finishing grading. I’m going days at a time without eating normal meals. . . . If I were anywhere else, I’d be so overworked I’d lose weight. Unfortunately, Chinese students pay in snacks/treats, which means I’m actually still eating way too much 🙂
Things that make my heart happy!
12 DecThings that make me happy: Asking a student what she plans to do after graduation and getting a passionate speech about how she wants to revolutionize the Teaching English industry by focusing on Communication and how she has the perfect job and she’s so excited and this is her lifetime dream. Must admit, by the end I was almost as excited as she was. 🙂 ❤
Couldn’t be more Proud
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My Finance Students in their Graduation Photo. ❤
I’ve just spent the last week working for hours and hours with some of my students to get their papers finished. One of my students told me it was the first time a teacher had ever told him good job, and another said he had never worked so hard on an assignment. In the end, I’ve never been so impressed or proud as I have been of these people. They work their butts off trying to not only comprehend difficult subjects, but also to explain it back to you in a completely foreign language. And after looking at the finished works tonight, I could almost cry I’m so happy. They got it! and they wrote it! and they even added in some really great ideas for the solutions part, things that I wouldn’t even have thought of. So tonight I want the world to know that my students rock and I love them all!
Student Humor ~ Yeah. . . No.
17 NovStudent who turned in assignment 1 week + late ~ “But Teacher, I explained everything, I think you must have forgot”
Teacher ~ Um. . . . I don’t think ‘I had a personal reason’ counts when I told you in three forms of communication (written, oral, and electronic) that we needed a note and more details and you ignored them all. Trust me, if ‘personal reason’ had been enough to get me out of English papers in college, I would have used it a whole lot more!
Student Says What?!
12 NovStudents were asked to write a drafted ethics code for an employee in the financial world. One of my better groups actually chose the President of the Bank of China. One of the requirements was a statement about avoiding conflicts of interest. They wrote:
“When the president works in the bank, he is avoid working with others or sleeping.”
0_0 Oh dear. That poor man!
ESL Trouble
7 NovMy students are all Senior’s in college, and as such are prepping for their big college entrance examinations / English proficiency exams. Many of the come to me looking for help with their papers and writing practice, and I’ve been noticing a particular trend in their work.
They almost all have excellent understanding of noun, verb, adverb, adjective placement; however, two significant blocks for them are the Prepositions and the Articles (a, an, the). The students simply don’t understand how those words fit in with everything else.
So I pulled together a brief list of practice worksheets I found on the internet. Just in case someone else was interested, here they are!
Prepositions:
“A preposition is a part of speech, just like a noun or a verb. It connects a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence, showing us the relationship between them. Prepositions usually answer the questions where? or when?, telling us about a person or object’s location in either time or space.”
http://www.englishcurrent.com/worksheets/prepositions-exercises-worksheet/ (Excellent Practice)
Articles (A, An, The)
http://esllibrary.weebly.com/uploads/2/1/7/8/2178024/articles.pdf (Helpful, but maybe confusing? ~ the rules)
Hope something here is useful!
❤ Students
4 NovHad two students stop by last night just to chat ~ we talked for four hours 😛 Then had a sweet student bring me cookies this morning, and another one tea. I Love my Kids! They seriously have hearts of GOLD! ❤
Things Students Say
20 Oct“Met Lots of Interesting Things”
Addam’s Family “Thing”
Interesting “Things” – These probably had GREAT nail polish!! 🙂
“She was free in her wildness. She was a wanderess, a drop of free water. She belonged to no man and to no city” ~ Roman Payne
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