Tuesday, May 09, 2006

Teaching and Preaching the Gospel of Cool

It's springtime, and all the energy of the season is giving my students new ideas of how to pretend they can speak English (without ever studying). That is, they have a new strategy.
Allow me to elaborate:
Teacher (leaving the school at the end of the day): "See you later"
Students plural: "sheeuuuuehhhaaaa..."

They've learned to roughly approximate the vowel sounds of many English sayings and greetings and so on, without the slightest notion of what has been said, while at the same time foolishly convincing themselves that they are speaking English...Crafty bastards...they'll go straight to the gas chamber for this! I'll make them write out the alphabet 5 billion times, and I taught numbers to the first graders today, so they know that 5 billion is a lot (more than they can even count to)!

Additionally, some of my first year kids have taken to saying "Yes, boss" whenever I tell them anything (clearly they've been going to cram school in the evenings)...but it's pure gold...I encourage communication, so kudos to them for being little champs...it's also a lot more fun than only studying the textbook...

I also taught the students about hackeysack this week...soooooo pimp...the previous week was bass guitar class (complete with me rockin' it out pure awesome styles in front of everyone), and the week before that, I gave a little talk on Kung Fu (complete with manly demonstrations of enemy-smashing fists and feet, flying and flailing, full-blown fantasticness)

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