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The word development in English, as well as the reading and comprehension continued throughout the first part of the morning and though by the end of it they all looked exhausted and ready for a break, I must confess none of them seemed particularly demotivated.
I must nevertheless say that this younger generation doesn't seem to be able to concentrate for long periods of time as I recall "my" generation used to, so as a teacher one has to continually adapt and re-adapt the ongoing methodology as in accordance to their facial expressions, which means to say, whenever they are no longer "listening" and either have a more pro-active approach or come up with something that will definitely grab their attention and that I had to do quite a few times.
After the very short break they got back to what they had been doing the previous day artistically speaking and those who had already finished what they had been assigned to do were given a world map puzzle, which I intended to later use to help them locate the continents and countries mentioned in the texts.
The half an hour they are engaged on Art or any other side assignment related to the theme just highlights the fact that very little can be accomplished without perseverance and meticulous work, as many of them are already beginning to be aware of.
We resumed our lesson by having them read out loud the selected texts for the final presentation followed by another episode of the film, in which they got "acquainted" with a young Indian boy, who despite being physically impaired makes his way to the local school whilst being pushed and pulled by his two younger siblings whilst sitting on a a handmade sort of wheelchair (a fairly complicated riding process that takes more than an hour every day on a single way) so as to attend school and have access to a higher education.
(To be continued)
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