TEACHING PRACTICE

I generally came to KJO because as far as I remember I have always wanted to be an English teacher. And to some extent this does not change but I also think about different jobs. Of course connected with English.
Hmm, my teaching practice - I conducted my first lesson with Junior High School students, it was in September. I was, of course, extremely scared because I did not know them well and my task was to introduce Present Perfect to them. I wanted to have a lesson connected mostly with reading and speaking, not with a quite difficult grammar point but I had no choice. What is important, students were very friendly, they did not laugh at a new frightened teacher. :)But after that lesson the stress disappeared and I were not nervous with remaining lessons. Now I am confident in my role as a teacher and it is a real pleasure for me (but on the condition that you have a nice class to teach):) A friendly class with positive attitude is extremely important because I taught a class (Junior High School) which consisted of 14 boys and 4 girls and it was impossible to do any kind of speaking with them. They did not cause any discipline problems, they just sat quietly and looked at me. When I asked them to describe a picture in pairs they were silent and stared at me without doing the task. After the lesson the teacher told me that I should not worry because this class always behaves like that. She resigned from pair or group speaking because they said nothing during it. Later, I did not want to have more lessons with them because they were so 'cold' and they discouraged me for a while from being a teacher.

This is the photo of me when I was three

years old (although my parents are not quite sure about that:)). Look at these huge red artificial roses in my hair! Oh my God! They are terrible but what could I do then? :)

Another photo was taken in kindergarten. Please notice that I do not have anything strange in my hair. As you can see it was Christmas time and an assistant of Santa Claus came to visit me. I was very good then and I got a bag of sweets - mniam mniam!

Music

this is the link to one of my favourite songs: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rmil_raUtU&feature=related

This topic is not very nice for me because generally I listen to everything apart from techno:) I do not have my favourite singer or band but I really like Amy Winehouse and Katie Melua. I assume you know many facts about Amy's life so I would like to tell you a few words about Katie. She was born in Georgia, but moved to Northern Ireland at the age of eight and then relocated to England at the age of 14. She has released four albums so far. The latest is 'The Katie Melua Collection'.
In 2005 she sang 'Too Much Love Will Kill You' with the band the Queen which had been her dream since she was a child. On 2 October 2006, Melua entered the Guinness Book of Records for playing the deepest underwater concert 303 metres below sea level on Statoil's Troll A platform in the North Sea. She later described achieving the record as "the most surreal gig I have ever done". My favourite songs of hers are: 'Just like heaven', 'Toy collection' and 'The closest thing to crazy'.

My home town is Śrem. It is 45 kilometres to the south of Poznań and has a population of about 31 thousand. I do not want to bore you with long descriptions of my town so I will just put the most important information about Śrem.
Although Śrem is not a big city, it has all things which a city should have:) There are many companies of different specialisations, e.g. metallurgy, furniture production, transport, window and door production, textiles and food processing. So as you can see almost everyone will find something interesting.
If we take attractions into consideration, there are quite a few of them. There are three beautiful parks where you can go and do whatever you want (do not think about stupid things:)), there are several good restaurants where you can eat delicious food and some discotheques but personally I like none of them.
If you like sport, you will be pleased with my city because it has a lot of sport facilities such as stadium, swimming pool, gymnasiums, bowling alleys and yacht club which is situated near a huge lake. Unfortunately, you have to be brave to swim in this lake because the water is awfully dirty. Recently, a new ice rink has been opened but I haven't been there yet.
As far as education is concerned, you may find a branch of Adam Mickiewicz University but you can study there only chemistry and tourism.
To sum up, I must admit that in the past I didn't like my city because it was boring for me but now when I study in Poznań I am really happy that Śrem is not as big as Poznań:)