By Leonie Smith and Leora Hug | Volunteers
Once a week we meet up with the elderly people of the Day Care Center to give them an English class. We work in small groups of around four students and try to teach them basic things such as introducing themselves, counting and talking about the weather. We usually start off with revising the content of the previous lesson, then bring an input with new information and to finish the class we play a game to have them practice what they learnt and to make them speak. Furthermore we often end up with cultural discussions by comparing the European culture to the Argentinean one.
As you may imagine improving language skills at this age takes a lot of effort and sometimes it’s hard for them to remember the vocabulary. That’s why we can`t have a high expectation of their improvement but to us it’s already a great success to see them concentrated thinking of language. Moreover to have them sit together, provide their social interaction and to create a more interesting daily life.
For some of them it’s been a lifelong ambition to learn English and with our class we try to fulfill their wish.
And also for us it’s a joy to see them studying very motivated and with a huge curiosity. As soon as we enter the Center they start greeting us in English and asking about when the class begins. Their ambition and seeing their pleasure of learning is a great experience and satisfaction for us as well.
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