March 2010

Despite large level differences between people in this group we managed to learn a lot, keep the speed and have fun together at the same time. Working with this group first seemed to be quite hard, but became a nice lesson in flexibility, finding more effective ways of organisation of the group and practise in managing skills of “multi-level” groups.

Eventhough some of students were genuine beginners, the group finally worked very homogene and the differences were evened out. The speed of the group was from the beginning quite high but secured by lots of home assesments and controlled by tests.

We managed to follow the standard syllabus of the school and at the same time enrich the lessons with things for which typically the evening class does not always reserved enough time (such as working with a lots of text, doing communicative games and even a little bit of theatre).