So this week, my 3rd full week at the school, the kids have to take a speaking test. Basically I sit in a room and the kids come in one by one and I show them one of 3 pics that they should have previously studied and then they have to tell me about the pic in English. It went alright I guess.
Lemme remind you that these are 7th and 8th grade kids, they started learning english in like 2nd or 3rd grade. So I was expecting that these kids would have no problem speakin complete sentences to me, was I wrong. I had to grade the kids on a scale 1,2 or 3. I gave mostly 2s. It took me awhile to figure out the scale on which I should grade the kids. It finally came to this; if they could speak 10 plus english words in a minute I would give them a 2, any less they would get 1. To get a 3 they would have to basically speak in sentences for a majority of the time. 2 was obviously a large range of people.
You would be surprised with how many 1s I had to give out. Some kids could say like some words, but some kids literally would walk in and just sit and stare at me for a minute. I would attempt to help them out, I would point at like a tree and say "Can you tell me what this is?" Amazingly enough some kids would not be able to say simply things in english, not even a word.
On the other hand, there were some kids who were able to speak to me brilliantly. A few were even better than some of my co teachers, and the co teachers know it. It averaged out to about 1 kid every other class that could carry on a good conversation with me.
The first time I spoke with one of these kids I was absolutely stunned, they were so much better than everyone else, some have lived in english speaking countries for a year or so but still, just amazing. Overall tho the level of the kids was about what I was expecting. Im really glad I got to do this so early after being at my school so now I know about the speakin level of most of the kids.
Still lovin the job
B-Money
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