Teaching english in Qui Nhon

English class at the Province Health Service Headquarters in Qui Nhon.

You can listen to Ken Treanor talk about teaching English below.

Image courtesy Ken Treanor

Extract from oral history interview with Helen Frizzell (10-11 June 2008)

Reproduced with permission of Ken Treanor

Transcript:

Mr Giau said that some of his staff wanted to improve their English. So I just used to give them a half hour after work - they'd stay behind, about twenty of them.

How often did you do this?

When we got time. They'd usually come to us, come to me and say; ‘we've got a half hour tonight or could you come tonight.'

So was this once a week?

Oh two or three times a week.

And for the whole time you were there?

Most of the time yes. There was many - we just concentrated on a subject and went onto all the English words surrounding the subject.

So I notice here [picture] you've got, what is it - airport, pilot, captain - so you've obviously something to do with planes?

Yes. One of the Vietnamese would translate it into Vietnam - the Vietnam language - from the English so they understood what I was talking about. So they compared their words with our words.