The United Nations ...has a new location - Trailer 2 in Owings Mills, MD.
In honor of Mark Twain, the first American author to pen the cadence of the southern vernacular, my writer's circle assignment was to write a dialogue the students had recently. The instructions were to write the conversation exactly the way it sounded without worries of grammatically correct conventions. The assignment was successful if the reader/listener could hear the personal dialect and vernacular...
First was Shahrom who read the phone conversation he had with a friend in Russia. Then we heard from Umang who had been talking to a cousin in his native Indian tongue. Then Victor shared the dialogue he had with his brother in VERY Puerto Rican Spanish. Finally Sanaa read the dialogue she had with her cousin in Turkish... it was a global morning in Trailer 2. And the best part is that all the rest of us who just wrote our dialogues in plain ol' English clapped for the cool bilingual people. I love teaching at the United Nations.
If you like teaching international students you should be ESOL teacher. It will be fun for you. I remember in my EFL 2 class we had 15 student from different countries. It was fun every day. I like to be in class with some international students.
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