first day in the new job

i've been teaching for 7 years, yet i was quite nervous when i showed up for my first new lesson yesterday. mostly, i was nervous because the teacher i was replacing had given me very few indications as to where the students were in their course, giving me only book names. not very useful, on top of making me look disorganised. in the end, i'd prepared various activities to find out who my students were, what they needed, what they wanted, and what level they really were, and as it turned out, that was just perfect. it went really well and they all seemed very happy.

the following lesson was a private, and we also managed to make the 90 minutes go by without needing a book. i'd prepared review activities for him, but in the end, he talked so much about other stuff that we barely got to use any of them. so all in all, it was a very good day.