darkSpyro

Long story short, I help a certain Chinese person teach English to a group of Chinese kids. Anyway, they've been misbehaving a lot, and I've been tasked with creating worksheets they'll have to do on break instead of playing. I want to create the most miserable, minid-numbing, heart-wrenching, boring-ly busywork sheets ever! Anyway, it's actually surprisingly harder then it seems (so next time you want to kill who ever wrote your school textbook, remember that it took a lot of work and research to make you so miserable ), so I'm wondering, what busywork do you guys hate the most, and drives you the most crazy (no kid spits on me and gets away with it; I've sworn retribution, and I will crush their spirits with these worksheets!)? Right now, it'll all be copy work where they'll spend what would be their break time copying down paragraphs from the lesson. What else can I throw in to crush their souls?

And man, it's fun being the one writing the problems!

So far we've got:

Copywork: Copying several paragraphs from the lesson. Any mistakes once finished and you redo it!
Re-Arranging sentences: They don't know hardly any grammar... this'll kill them... PERFECT!!!!!!!
Crosswords: This may be a bit too much... but if one of them who has the best English spit balls me again... CROSSWORD VENGEANCE SHALL BE MINE!!!!

Math.
Grammar.(Only the rewriting part)


That's all I got for now that make me miserable. >.>

Give them, like, a million ba-jillion words, and have them write out the full definition from a dictionary. No shortening it.

Give them a crossword. And a dictionary. No wordbank. That will be their day.

Quote: Underian

Give them a crossword. And a dictionary. No wordbank. That will be their day.

Oh my gosh yes.

Quote: HotDogAndZap

Math.
Grammar.(Only the rewriting part)


That's all I got for now that make me miserable. >.>

It's teaching english, so no math...
But rewriting grammar... I like it!
And there'll be 20-word long sentences!Quote: HotDogAndZap

Quote: Underian

Give them a crossword. And a dictionary. No wordbank. That will be their day.

Oh my gosh yes.

And I thought I was sick and twisted! Actually, it needs to be something they can do, otherwise they might goof off a bit. Of course, anyone talks to someone else for anything other than help and they have to re-do the page all over again!
If they talk non-stop on videogames, I'll bring a crossword puzzle for videogame characters. Extremely obscure ones! No talking or playing until they finish it!

Might I ask you, You're a teacher?? Is it a good job? Do you enjoy it??


On other hand, the simplest way of making it hard is making it long. Make up 20 questions, put it in the test.

Watch them cry.

Make them write an essay.

what dummyz said

Again, they don't have the best knowledge of english, so I'll be doing copywork initially for them, maybe something a little more complicated for the older ones.

As for teaching, it's ok, not too demanding as I mostly just help with pronunciation (the person who leads/organises it doesn't speak english as a first language), grammar, starting conversations etc.