English teaching

I've now been teaching for 7 or 8 weeks and although I have had some ups and downs, overall I am very much enjoying teaching. Teaching adults in particular I have found to be rewarding, but I feel I still have some way to go with teaching my kids (year 4 and 5 kids), as at times this has been a struggle. The kids need a lot of entertaining - ie games, and need to be challenged, and for the most part, I feel that I probably haven't challenged them enough.

I'm learning a lot about English by teaching it. Did you know that 8 words make up approximately 33% of spoken English? Have a think about what they could be and then check the comments section - where I'll post the answers! I actually have a list of the 300 most commonly used English words. Some interesting words that made the top 300 - state, American, war, government, president, John, church, power, and God. Just shows that although we are taught to not talk about politics and religion etc, that these topics are extremely popular. Most of the other words were prepositions and adjectives (ie not nouns etc) like - don't, got, told, let, look, only, what, said, most etc....