22/02/2026
Today, for the very first time he smiled “heartily” at me.
My experiences with ESL learners from different continents with different personalities and of different ages have taught me that even a certificate course wouldn’t have been able to teach me what I have learned since I started towing this path.
In November, a Chinese man reached out to me about making his nephew and niece take English lessons in order for them to improve their English speaking skills.
My method of teaching ESL to various learners depends on their English proficiency levels.
For these particular two, their proficiency levels required more of speaking practice so they can apply all the grammar and vocabulary knowledge they had before they joined my lessons.
So, they began.. I I noticed the girl is a talkative and enjoys “gisting” especially with the method I use in class. It encourages discussions and there, I am able to correct their grammatical errors and then build my next set of lessons on that error so I can be sure they have effected the correction.
The boy on the other hand, after about 5 lessons, started taking so many days off.
For every week, he would always tell his uncle to tell me he won’t be available on a certain day cos he is sick..(The sick boy, I call him😃).
To be honest, though I had a feeling that I needed to add a little more spice to his lessons cos I wasn’t too comfortable about his attitude towards learning, still I didn’t suspect anything. I just thought he isn’t much of a talker like his cousin and he probably falls ill… until his uncle mentioned something last week (I’ll post a screenshot), and it dawned on me that he probably wasn’t enjoying my lessons, despite my “almighty” methodology .
..𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑢𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠
