I keep on coming back to the computer because I'm desperately bored. I love teaching but I hate correcting, especially comps. And at the moment I have this enormous pile on my table. Any ideas on how to make this task a bit less arduous:mad:?

Maybe, everybody passed the exam and we all go out for the biggest party in the world... ;)
I'm studying all day, so I get bored from time to time. This forum helps me to get on with Spanish baroque poetry.

you can correct compostions with gógorismos

What's that?

I think Poli means gongorismos which are not the best way to correct an English composition, but it's not impossible.

To correct an English composition...You have my permission to hate me.:)

Thanks a lot for your correction, Iris! I've already edited it. I'm not hating anybody, for the moment ;). I'm learning a lot with your corrections!

Hey Iris,
like Alfonso suggested, pass everybody and no one will hate you at least not your students and any way not right away. :D

I always give everybody a pass,but I have to correct them all the same!

Have fun with it!

Make it a class project and have them correct each other's composition. Bring a treat. Get them all involved. Have them read a few. It can be a lot of fun!!


Elaina:p

Great idea, thanks.:p:):D

My father was a teacher, and he always corrected Saturday afternoon, seeing a western.
Look for a movie with no dialogues/plot and see it while correcting.
But sometimes my father laugh hard because some students writed dummy things.
greetings :D

I know I shouldn't, but I laugh myself sometimes too. But I cannot correct and do something else at the same time. My sister used to watch the telly while she studied, I never understood how she managed it.:eek:

Iris, you could scan them into the computer and then we could help you with the corrections, then you just print them out again and you´re done :D (Or maybe that's overly complicated).

It would feel too cheeky...But thanks all the same.;)