Because of his school’s spring vacation, my 9 year old son was at home during the day a lot over the last couple of weeks.
I could go and talk to him between English lessons I was teaching.
“Daddy, could I teach English, do you think?” he asked.
“Yes, I guess so. Maybe when you are a bit older, you could teach English,” I said.
He watched me picking up the lesson fee I had just received from the table.
“I could help you teach English soon, Daddy. You can give me a test and tell me when my English is good enough to teach.”
He wanted me to pay him as an assistant teacher.
I told him his English would have to get better. He answered, “Okay, can you teach me now?”
So I sat him on the opposite side of the table to me, and started teaching him as if he was my student. He did well answering questions such as, “Where do you live?” and “Do you have any brothers or sisters?”
Then I got him to ask me questions. I would say, “I am from Scotland,” and he would have to ask, “Where are you from?”
I said, “I like to go to karaoke, and I like to play the guitar.”
He thought for a moment, then asked, “What are your hobbits?”
It might be
a little early for my assistant English teacher to start teaching, unless his
students are studying Lord of the Rings.
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