On the first day of February we went to the village of BawGaew to teach English lessons for the school there. One the teachers there is a member of the church. She asked Robert Reagan, the director of the Christian Zone and our host, to provide some activities for an English Day Camp. Our main goal was to help the students become excited about learning English. Robert told us that sometimes in the villages far from the city it is difficult for the students to see a good reason to learn English. This turned out to be a great week for us to take a day off from our normal schedual since many of our readers are Chinese students at Payap University and they were taking the week off to prepare for a celebration of the Chinese New Year.
Sheila prepared a lesson on shapes and colors. After they had learned (or for some of them reviewed) the vocabulary they played a game with the words . The students are drawing a set of letters out of Sheila's cup so they can race to spell their new vocabulary.
Michele had a lesson on the parts of the body. The lesson opened with the song, Head and Shoulders, Knees and Toes. After increasing the vocabulary a bit the students played Simon Says but no one got "out".
Helen played a game with scrabble tiles. The students practiced making English words with random tiles.
Tom's lesson was on animals and foods. After vocabulary and spelling practice with flash cards, they sang Old McDonald, and Tom learned the sounds that animals make in Thailand. These can be quite different from what we are familiar with in America, for example here a dog says, "hong."
We had a very good day. It was good for us to see more of Thailand and by the end of the day we could see that the students were very excited about English. By helping that teacher provide this experience for her students we were witnessing to the loving kindness of our God to the administrators and students of that school as well as the students' families.
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