Does did me in

Today’s class was PACKED again; more new students, more awkward roll calls, more examples of why getting them to point to the attendance sheet makes more sense. The class list has 27 students enrolled, but the actual class seats only 14 (all seats were full last night with 13 students absent). I wonder what we’ll do if they all show up one day, on the same day? Wait.. I wonder what *I’ll* do.

Today we went over Perfect Past (have/has) and Simple Past (did/do/does). Did you know it is now acceptable to write a sentence as “My boss’s gone skiing in the Swiss Alps”, instead of “My boss has been skiing…”. It’s acceptable to triple s it up, I had no idea. Thanks Will for being my phone a friend at break when I wanted to clarify it was NOT ok, but we could find no definite proof of right or wrong for either side. After class I asked the Director who said it is, in fact, acceptable now to apostrophe the left, AND the right of the s. Rivetting I know, but I was surprised!

So we move passed ’s', and ‘does’ ends up doing me in. A few students had trouble with do/does in terms of the correct pronouns. Explaining “does is the present third singular of do” to myself was hard enough, trying to explain it to an ESL class causes confusion with “slow down!” yelled out by Elena (who is very smitten with her looks and makes comments about coming into a lot of money and that’s why she looks like this…). It seems it really *is* Canadian to talk fast, and even faster when your flustered, I was happy I could illustrate this stereotype ;p

The rest of the class was a free for all, and I was happy that the students were speaking English and getting to know one another. At the end of class, I said goodbye, thanks for coming, and I’ll try and slow it down next time. Lisbeth (new student) asked if I was teaching again tomorrow, I said no, it will be another teacher, she said “oh no. I wish you were teaching both classes”. .

WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FINALLY!!! I always wanted to know if they liked me better lolol , it really *is* like high school all over again..