After teaching my students 'Speech work', I was packing my notes to leave when I noticed some hesitation. I asked them what the problem was and they expressed that they wanted me to continue the lesson. I was surprised because not only was my time up but it was also break time. And I know these kids don't play with break time/food.
It was either they enjoyed getting fascinated by my pronunciation of the English words I was teaching them or they were actually interested in some more learning. Judging from how they'd chuckle whenever I pronounced what they'd usually call 'os-pi-tah' as 'hos-pi-tul', I'll go with the former. Whatever the reason was, I decided to stay and play some games with them. During the course of this, I realised how horrible their sentence construction was, so I asked for suggestions on how we could tackle this problem. Some suggested break-time lesson, others suggested more reading. Then I heard someone say something about enforcing a N20 fine on anyone who speaks Yoruba in class. And it hit me! THIS IS IT! THIS WILL BE IT! This was the idea we were going to adopt but with a little tweaking.
In that moment, a new rule was born: Anyone who speaks Yoruba in English class will be fined N10. You won't be fined if you attempt to speak English and end up 'tabon'-ing, the rule would only apply to you if you did decide to speak and it was in Yoruba.
This happened just yesterday, and because I haven't been at school since 'cause today was my day off, the plan won't officially kick off until tomorrow. I'm looking forward to that and just seeing how it pans out as time goes on. I think if we adhere strictly to it, it will make a difference. We've also appointed a "financial secretary" who will be in charge of collecting the funds, lol.
OyaNa! LezzGoDiyeh!
PS: It's a town, not a village! :P
PSS: My camera is temporarily faulty, hence why I've been slacking on sharing pictures. But I'll soon have that sorted out.
Thanks for understanding :)
Faulty, ehn?
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