Teach English, Use Funny T-Shirts
Wednesday, April 28th, 2010Funny t shirts helped me teach English with excellent results. I am an English Teacher for Korean students down South. Most of my students study with me for at least six months before they enter a real English academy. You see it’s a private tutor thing. My relationship with them tends to be purely personal and sometimes the line between being a teacher and being a friend is never seen. That’s why, after three months of teaching my students for a six-month contract. The boredom seeps in.
Boredom is the worst thing that could happen in an ESL class. It kills the class and their memory of you being a good teacher slowly fades. So, I had to think of ways on how to kill the boredom in class. We tried cooking, painting and singing in the class. But the boredom is still present after doing those extra-curricular activities and then one day, a good friend suggested that I wear shirts with messages printed on it in class to grab the attention of my Korean students. It really did wonders. Sometimes even, we had an hour analyzing and connecting experiences in our lives because of the shirt’s message.
It was very funny. And then I made it a once-a-week activity in my class to wear unique shirts. My class was never boring again after I found out about funny shirts. They asked me where I bought it and I told them about the site. After that, they were all wearing the shirts and speaking good English at the same time.