A New Direction

I've been offered some summer work at an English camp here in Mae Rim which begins at the end of this month. As it stands I am likely to be one of two teachers and so will be doing 10 90-minute sessions over one week. If more students sign up, then I will be teaching two different ability groups over two weeks. Either I will be teaching the beginner group in the first week and the pre-intermediate group in the second week, or vice versa when I will swap over with a TEFL teacher from America (I'm from the UK).

Bearing in mind that I may have to teach learners at two very different levels who may or may not be in the same class, I have decided to start planning for these lessons now.

Another new development is that I have been offered the chance to start an English program for the Thai farmers at the farm where I have been volunteering on my Fridays off and where I am currently WWOOFing full time as this school year's kindergarten course has ended.

These will most likely be two very different experiences, but in the last lesson of the week, or of both weeks if more students sign up, I was hoping to build in some crossover. Namely I want to spend one of Friday's lessons on the farm.

I am at the beginning of putting together a Thai-English vocab sheet of words and phrases that I think might come in useful to the farmers in interacting with the WWOOF volunteers (WWOOFers), and to the English-speaking children who visit the farm from other schools.

In a little under three weeks from now, the kindergarten children from the international school where I live will be doing some healthy-eating-themed activities on the farm which I would like to help with. I think this will follow the idea of finding certain colours of vegetables on the farm. A scavenger hunt in other words.

A slightly more complicated scavenger hunt would be one possible way of making use of the vocabulary the older children from the camp will be learning.