“false” beginners

I don’t think I will ever forget this group of people from all around the world (USA, Japan, Hungary, France, Panama, Turkey, Israel, South Korea and Cyprus).  It was such a nice, communicative and relaxed group of people and in addition, they were really eager to learn Czech!!!  Although being grown ups, they went to ’school’ every day.

The level of students was not on the same , but they tried to help eachother alot. For me it was again a good practice in managing multi-level groups.  Again it showed that this does not need to cause issues as long as the group works together in a creative and supportive  way.

We worked with the Step by step book, but we also used lots of other materials and texts to enrich the lessons.

I’m looking forward to hearing the opinions of the students.

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).

To work together with this group of nice and relaxed   people was a great pleasure for me.

This small group of two Japanese, one French,  one Hungarian, two Americans and one South African started as “false” beginners (students who already knew some Czech) and during the short time achieved A1 level.

Every student needed special approach, which  was quite challenging for  me. Thanks to a  lot of games, discussions, but also necessary drills we improved not only our grammar, but mainly speaking and understanding skills.

I hope the group was also happy with what they learned and how.

This group of 12 people will be able to understand Czech speakers and react in not very complicated situations. In nice and relaxed atmosphere the Czech Step By Step was a perfect guide to basic level of Czech language.