Whats an English teacher doing at a “French-language school”?
I teach English as a second foreign language. One advantage we have is that our boys learn more than one language other than their mother tongue, French and English, and by the time they finish high school they’re quite adequate in both. English is a second foreign language, but it is quite advanced, not low level. In languages, we set our own curriculum; it’s up to the language teacher. It’s different from science or math, where the government sets the curriculum. With languages we try to find out what is best for the boys, and we don’t necessarily teach by the book. Teaching languages takes practice so that students become able to express themselves in this language, to describe whatever they see, to say what they think about, to express opinions. What are your students like? I teach junior high, ages 14-15, and I believe these boys should behave in a fairly manly manner. At such an age they are certainly teenagers, but still one sees a bit of the child. So we try to help them throug
