F#*K Music
Drilling is one of the areas that may go wrong in an English language classroom. This may happen because maybe the teacher himself is not well-prepared so he/she ends up pronouncing the words incorrectly or because students, for some reason, did not get what the teacher had just said. So let me tell you about four of the funny incidents I witnessed myself regarding this.
The first one happened on a TEFL course in Egypt. During assisted lesson planning, I agreed with the student teacher that she would use back chaining in order to show students features of connected speech when using the past perfect. So simply the teacher was supposed to drill saying something like:
travelled
had travelled
She’d travelled
This would have shown students how ‘had’ was pronounced as a weak form. However, the candidate started drilling from the front not the back saying this:
She
She’d
She’d travelled
Now when she was drilling (she’d), it sounded exactly as ‘shit’ and all students were repeating after her. She did this for three times, then she realised what she was saying and exploded in laughing.
The second story took place in South Africa on another TEFL course and strangely enough, three student teachers made funny mistakes with drilling in three lessons back to back on the very same day. The first one was not well prepared so he started drilling (Penis Aires) instead of ( Buenos Aires). The second teacher was drilling (decade) but all students were actually saying: (dick head). And the last killer was the teacher drilling (folk music) and all students repeating enthusiastically: (f#%k music).
Well, it seems that teaching pronunciation can easily become offensive at times.
Hilarious to the a degree in which teachers should memorise these incidents better more than their own names.
Sometimes drilling goes crazy, innit?
what the hell is this 😂😂😂😂the first impression when i saw the adress of the Email I thought somebody drives you crazy with awful track music you didn’t like it then u did so 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
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hahahahahahah
Sometimes it’s weird to drill a part of the sentence that’s wht drilling a complete sentence makes sense ; more natural ; conveys a meaning ; and put the vocabulary in use.
Well-said, Heba.
A TEFL candidate was teaching speaking in the context of testing people’s memories. In the production stage, one of her learners wanted to peek at the answers sheet to try to prove that she has a strong memory and answer her partner’s questions. So the candidate caught her and kept telling her “No No! Don’t shit. You can’t shit. Stop shitting!”
Oh God, it seems that shit was hitting the fan in this lesson, LOL.