Hi everyone! I'm back for Part III! Been waiting long? =P I've been really busy the past week planning and appealing for my modules, that's why. FYI, I'm still short of 1 module and I'm waiting for my appeal results which will be out next wednesday. Pray it'll be approved! Oh yes, it's time for tutorial balloting as well. Hope all of you will get your desired timeslots so won't have to go through the hassle of appealing! And of course, some of you lucky ones from biz or engin probably got your tutorial classes preallocated already. =) Ok I'll cut the crap and get down to blogging about the YEP trip!
This 'episode' will be about our teaching sessions at YMCA and the HOPE. The people we taught were youths ranging from those in their late teens to those in their 30s as well as some older members. Their level of English literacy varies too, so it wasn't easy trying cater our lessons to all of them within a classroom. Nonetheless, I felt that it was a fun experience, and I hope that they had learnt much from us over the few days that we had classes with them.
It's kinda heartening to see their enthusiasm for picking up the English language, when most of us in Singapore just take for granted our opportunity to learn this language in school from a young age. Just like us, they have high aspirations and dreams. Their thirst for knowledge and determination to work towards their goals despite their more difficult circumstances put some of us from the more prosperous countries to shame.
One guy I spoke to (the marketing manager) said that he wish to learn English so that he can converse well with people from many different countries, and he also wishes to learn other languages such as Chinese language. He also spoke of his aspirations to travel overseas to work and to make friends from other countries. I guess seeing other people from other countries especially those who are less well-off and enjoy less good opportunities than us can make us reflective of ourselves and to appreciate better what we have. It's time to make some really good new year resolutions that will demonstrate what we have learnt from this trip! =)
Anyway, just a reminiscence of what we did at the schools...We were divided into 2 groups. 1 to teach at YMCA and the other to teach at HOPE. I can still remember the routine everyday over the 2 weeks - breakfast till 8am, take the bus and drop off the first group at YMCA, then travel to HOPE to drop off the next group. And after the classes, pick up the first group at YMCA, then travel to the primary school for lunch and then painting plus teaching till about 5pm, then travel to YMCA for dinner, then back to hotel at 8 plus...Such wonderful times we had! =D
Enjoy!
A welcome speech from the principal at HOPE.
These girls working at YMCA are all pretty young and their English proficiency is quite low.
Friendship
Hope 2
Listening attentively in class
We taught them various things such as common English conversations, useful vocabs, grammar and some pop songs (I believe I can fly, anyone?)
The Hope 1 class, the class I was in =)
A farewell and thank-you speech by the marketing manager. He also gave us his self-made gift of music cds with 7 tracks of classic Vietnamese songs and his voice recording on the first track. The CD was also printed professionally.
Playing some party games (English word game!)
I'll always remember this day...the farewell party organized for us by our Hope 1 class *sobs*
Some pics we took together for the last time
Hope 1 + Hope 2 on our last day of teaching
"My name is...."
Teaching the girls at YMCA
Wanna challenge us?
Bring it on!
ready...1..2..3..GO!!!
Spicing up the lesson with games!
The banana song?
Macarena?
Happy Together!
This 'episode' will be about our teaching sessions at YMCA and the HOPE. The people we taught were youths ranging from those in their late teens to those in their 30s as well as some older members. Their level of English literacy varies too, so it wasn't easy trying cater our lessons to all of them within a classroom. Nonetheless, I felt that it was a fun experience, and I hope that they had learnt much from us over the few days that we had classes with them.
It's kinda heartening to see their enthusiasm for picking up the English language, when most of us in Singapore just take for granted our opportunity to learn this language in school from a young age. Just like us, they have high aspirations and dreams. Their thirst for knowledge and determination to work towards their goals despite their more difficult circumstances put some of us from the more prosperous countries to shame.
One guy I spoke to (the marketing manager) said that he wish to learn English so that he can converse well with people from many different countries, and he also wishes to learn other languages such as Chinese language. He also spoke of his aspirations to travel overseas to work and to make friends from other countries. I guess seeing other people from other countries especially those who are less well-off and enjoy less good opportunities than us can make us reflective of ourselves and to appreciate better what we have. It's time to make some really good new year resolutions that will demonstrate what we have learnt from this trip! =)
Anyway, just a reminiscence of what we did at the schools...We were divided into 2 groups. 1 to teach at YMCA and the other to teach at HOPE. I can still remember the routine everyday over the 2 weeks - breakfast till 8am, take the bus and drop off the first group at YMCA, then travel to HOPE to drop off the next group. And after the classes, pick up the first group at YMCA, then travel to the primary school for lunch and then painting plus teaching till about 5pm, then travel to YMCA for dinner, then back to hotel at 8 plus...Such wonderful times we had! =D
Enjoy!
A welcome speech from the principal at HOPE.
These girls working at YMCA are all pretty young and their English proficiency is quite low.
Friendship
Hope 2
Listening attentively in class
We taught them various things such as common English conversations, useful vocabs, grammar and some pop songs (I believe I can fly, anyone?)
The Hope 1 class, the class I was in =)
A farewell and thank-you speech by the marketing manager. He also gave us his self-made gift of music cds with 7 tracks of classic Vietnamese songs and his voice recording on the first track. The CD was also printed professionally.
Playing some party games (English word game!)
I'll always remember this day...the farewell party organized for us by our Hope 1 class *sobs*
Some pics we took together for the last time
Hope 1 + Hope 2 on our last day of teaching
"My name is...."
Teaching the girls at YMCA
Wanna challenge us?
Bring it on!
ready...1..2..3..GO!!!
Spicing up the lesson with games!
The banana song?
Macarena?
Happy Together!Alright, that's it for today. Have a great weekend! =D
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