After studying nationalities for nearly three weeks, my pupils are working now on families. Through families, they are supposed to learn how to use the genitive form and they have to be able to explain how their family is and what the names of the members are.
Related to the past topic, I have to say that it is easy to demonstrate that, after spending more than three weeks working on families, they haven’t learned how to say: I’m from Spain, so I’m Spanish. They are always confusing the terms, saying I’m from Spanish instead of I’m from Spain. The results of the exam were, for almost all of them, really bad, but I think that the main problem is they never do their homework, so it is not difficult to imagine that they don’t study so much for the exams.
I spoke with my coach about it, and she told me that their levels are really low, and sometimes it is difficult for them to learn everything you explain in English. So when you are in a class like this it is really important to put yourself in their places and think: Ok, how can I do it, how can I manage with this topic if I want them to learn. But the most important thing you have to believe in is that they can do it. Because maybe they have a potential that you cannot see and you, the teacher, are the one who have the duty to develop this potential to the full.
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