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| The University of Sheffield |
With the
agencies that I currently use, I never know who I will be teaching until the very last moment and, provided only with contact
details, my new assignment started with a phone call and an exchange of
e-mails to arrange the time and venue for meeting Irene from
AlmerÃa. Irene had started her 6 month Research Scholarship in Genetics at Sheffield
University, on secondment from the University of Granada, so we met in the University Arms.
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| Irene at the Millennium Gallery |
Not knowing
the pub, I sat at a table in full view and when Irene walked in, the mutual smiles - which follow from instant recognition - broke the ice. I couldn’t have asked for a better first meeting and
this set the tone for the rest of our lessons.
My brief was
to help Irene to settle in at work, especially talking to colleagues
who were also not native English speakers, and I had 60 hours over a period of 5
weeks - including weekends - to complete my task.
Irene likes
to learn in a visual and kinaesthetic way and, in our lessons, we made
full use of original photographs, maps and the Metro to discuss
travel, landscapes, architecture, art, food and drink, plants,
people and animals.
We started by comparing our introductory
e-mails and then carried on discussing very many aspects of the English and Spanish languages.
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