Hi guys! My identify is Suzi and I'm a South African living in Poland! And I've been Teaching English as a Second Expression for the past eight years. And I've had a few people come up to me and ask me, uh, like how do you teach? Or would you have any tips-off for other people who are interested in learning infants English. For precedent. I have this wonderful friend who speaks English perfectly, she speaks French perfectly. She's not a teacher, she studied something totally different but a few people have asked her if she would maybe like to teach their kids.
And she kind of panic-struck and called me and she requested, "What am I supposed to do? " "I've never learnt teenagers, I don't hang around with kids." How do you teach someone who's not your age, who you think of as some small-minded little foreigner? So I'm gonna give you three tips-off that could help you feel a little bit more confident on your first session or sson with a small human being who are willing to to hear English, or who's mothers would like this human being to learn English. So my first step is tada! to sit on the flooring So meeting an adult, just imagine, you're session such person or persons who's like, so much better taller than you and if you look at them and you have to various kinds of be in this position in order to see their face thats kind of um, various kinds of spooky and intimidating and on top of this, this person is speaking to you, using these statements that you have no opinion what they mean.
But when you sit on the flooring you kind of acquire yourself a little bit more vulnerable, but you're also on the level of such children, which establishes them seem a little more comfortable and it establishes you more approachable. Next tip-off: Be interested! Being interested means reacting to what they're saying or to things that they're doing with interest so for example, asking about a teddley and asking if it's theirs and showing interest in their Teddy. Showing interest in um, them stirring handstands and praising them on that showing interest in, for example paintings on their wall and asking, you know "Did you reap this? Is this yours? Wow this is really good! " So only being interested in them and their medium and showing that you want to be there, with this boy, already kind of opens the way to this wave of relationships. Third occasion is ... "You know English! " Which I think is pretty important as a confidence builder. Because reading different languages isn't actually that difficult. I feel a lot of people obstructing themselves and they think that no this is impossible I can't do it, I don't know, I don't understand what you're answering so I'm gonna listen to you and I think it's important to find certain things that the child understands and knows and praising them on it.
Or I do this thing where I kind ofrick them into knowing its own language. I start with a attract. Drawing in itself is a very very cool direction to interact with the "childrens and" teach English at the same duration. So for example, I would say, OK so. "I am reaping a foreman And now I'm reaping two eyes, a nose and a mouth." "Where are his eyes? Where are you able read his eyes? "* Blink Blink* And the child generally degrees and I'm like "Well done! Yes! That's his eyes! " And then, kinda like, you know "You read? You know English! " So yeah, this organization is three of the tips-off that I feel could be important as a start.
If you have any tips-off on what stimulated your first exercises labour or what help me out here when you started teaching teenagers, let me know or if there's some other tips-off that you would like, you're welcome to let me know too! and maybe I can help out. Hey guys. So that was my first ever YouTube video and I just wanted tto say thanks for watching! And I wish you an amazing 2017! Bye !.
