Wow, you are so GREAT! 哇， 你太棒了！
My students have been performing much better than before these days. Nothing else can make me feel happier than that, I suppose.
Just returned from class,grabbed a bread and I began to recollec some details which I think were worth writing. To activate their enthusiam, I made up loads of mini tests. To take the class for example, I wrote some new words on the chalkboard and erazed them very soon, requring my students to spell them correctly. I said, "You are on the best stage for instant memories. I am gonna to test how fast you can memorize a new word." Their sense of competion being aroused, the class immediatly turned active and productive. Following generous applause was my timely praises to those winners, and so the whole class lit up. Zhanghua, who rarely listened in the past, was happy as hell when I said, " wow, you are so great! Will you share us some secret to your magic instant memories?".
Another example was also related to instant memories. I asked them to number each line of a long text shortly after we learnt it. Then they were asked to point out which line contained the several words I said. All this was to further practise their listening and reading in a more amusing mode. The fastest was the winner. These improvisational minitests proved very popular among my students.
I will make up more mini-tests or mini games in the future as long as they are helpful to teaching and learning. And more importantly for me, I like the feel that my students take me not only as a teacher but also a friend.
