My first time soaking in a multilingual-teaching class

It was a cold and humid Friday, I climbed onto the mountain by bus in order to attend the first multilingual-teaching class. Interestingly, today’ s spotlight are ourselves, instead of our teacher. Even though I felt sleepy, sober, or lazy, I must finish my mission in teaching others German. The first lesson I had learned before the class finished: Duty, no matter how doomed I felt, how do I want to take a day off, I still have to take responsibility to my students. After arriving at the classroom, I noticed our group was the first one to be on stage, all of us were nervous about that. I am curious about the feeling of being on stage: won’t the teachers be nervous before facing with students? If so, how do they overcome this crucial obstacle? Despite this question echoed, the first teaching was in our turn, then we will soak in the world of Spanish and Korean.

  This was my first time to teach foreign language in public. For me, I never teach English publicly, not to mention German, a strange language that I am still unfamiliar with. Our teaching opened with basic parts, because German for most people are difficult. Thus, we started with numbers and alphabets, so as to connect German with students. I noticed that that students were focusing on our content at first; however, as the time passed by their situation began to deteriorate. I realized that our arrangement may be weird for them, from basic level to German culture. Even if I felt frustrated when I saw their eyes becoming dull, I must finish my duty to introduce all I know about German culture. Fortunately, it was the end of the class, I overcome one of the presentations which annoys me the most. Most importantly, I also found that German is not the most suitable language, Thai, Spanish, and Japanese are better for me.

  The second and third session are Spanish and Korean, I felt more relieved during the classes without feeling anxious about presentation. I was shocked when I first hear others taught in Mandarin, Oh my gosh! I didn’t even know we can speak our mother language during the session, and so did my group members. The Spanish group collected several brief conversations, which are inclusive of some words and basic greetings. Their arrangement was very impressive, brief introduction, small competition, and singing songs. Although I regard their teaching methods as a copy of Jose Li(copy doesn’t mean plagiarism here), a Spanish teacher in our school, they still did a very good job. They combined all basic elements of a class, but it was impressive and eye-catching. I could collect and memorize some useful words(adjectives) to describe an object. In addition, they also provided some greetings so that we won’t be no longer afraid of meeting people who speak Spanish. Finally, they played a song in the end which brought their class to another level. (Jose also does so in his class.)