Classroom ‘Culture Shock’ in Australia! And tips on Aussie-Speak
In Australia, I spent my first job curriculum curving and tuning my ear into their accent.
Fights broke out regularly in our playground, and I was lucky if it didn’t happen in my classroom. My class was a sort of bike-crashed, cut-up and scabbed lot with teeth, and uniform going everywhere, suggesting that they were neither well supervised, nor cared for, at home.
Bar the geographical “Where is Canada?” lessons and the two-three embellished stories about bear chases and skidoo crashes, what did we learn? I used (more…)
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