English class fun

The students in the video are the second year students, the class I (Teresa) teach from four to five pm, for our four days every other week classes. This week we started with some Russian English vocabulary books, so we are back to doing greetings and polite phrases.

Last year one thing they all learned to say and memorized was a five minute filler phrase _How now brown cow? Which they quickly turned into red cow, black cow, and translated as how are you cor-rova (cow)? It's still a favorite phrase!

Monday Roma was back to work on the computers, now they are all working and can get on the WiFi.

Every week we provide water, tea bags and 1 kilogram of sugar for tea making ...the sugar lasts about two days because the students put so much sugar in their mugs. Like six teaspoons normally!

Once its gone, they have to buy some or drink it without, some day they will learn to ration.

  Unfortunately, every computer being able to get on the WiFi means everyone's smart phone (most of the kids have some kind of smart phone) can be on it too. Garry collects them when he sees them out and puts them in a drawer.

Garry and Masha are with the second year students from two until four in the afternoon, since they are learning different things than the new students

. In the mornings I start with the first year students at eight am and Garry and Masha are with them from nine to 11:30 am or so.

On the alternative weeks the group home parents teach the students in the mornings.