We have a new job. Apart from teaching our thirty students in the English Program every day and teaching kids in the Thai Program one hour a week, we now have to educate all the students who don't have an English speaking teacher regularly. That is the majority of kids in the school. Even the parents of the Thai Program kids have to pay a couple of hundred hard earned Baht for it.The school has a pretty good way of trying to bridge the gap: every Tuesday and Thursday they have a farang teacher come to a small but well run TV-studio and teach a small lesson. Not only does it get more kids in contact with English, kids also do all the behind the scenes stuff. They're behind the camera, mix the audio and do small items on things they've learned and even do a newscast.
For us teachers it's a whole new ballgame. You have to cram a lesson in 3-5 minutes, appeal to grade one through five and everything you do is on LIVE TV. No second takes. The whole school and especially the kids in your own room will be watching. Not exactly like presenting the American Idol final or anything, but still... Great fun.
Anyway: here's a picture I took while teaching everybody about 'I like to+verb'. In this case 'I like to take pictures'. If you look closely you can see me on the monitor. I'm the yellow blurry thing with the silvery blurry thing (my camera).
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Ja: hier zijn ze niet zo van: met jouw kop kan je mooi op de radio. Je vergeet trouwens wel dat ik als Rakker bij de Film van ome Willem uitblonk in de rol van 'Weigerachtige Cowboy met Snor en Baard 23'.
Damn: die link is niet voor de poes!
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