tales out of school
A few anecdotes from the past couple days of class...
Today, I played Tabu with an 11th-grade class. It's a game wherein you have to describe, in this case, film titles in English for your teammates to guess. (Like a verbal version of charades, or like that game Taboo only without forbidden words.) One girl who got The Mummy started out by saying, "It's another version of 'mother'..."
Yesterday, in a 12th-grade class, the theme of discussion was "What is love?" One young man, when confronted with a list of possible definitions, asserted that love is the affection that a mother feels for her child, because he doesn't think anyone can ever love him as much as his mother does. (Sounds to me like a stressful in-law situation awaits some lucky girl...)
And in an 8th-grade class yesterday, during a discussion of global warming, the teacher brought up CFC-free refrigerators, saying that the old appliances made before the ban on CFCs are mostly all gone now. One student, a boy who usually does something clowny at least once per lesson, asked whether the police are allowed to break into households suspected of harboring non-CFC-free fridges in order to arrest the owners thereof.
Today, I played Tabu with an 11th-grade class. It's a game wherein you have to describe, in this case, film titles in English for your teammates to guess. (Like a verbal version of charades, or like that game Taboo only without forbidden words.) One girl who got The Mummy started out by saying, "It's another version of 'mother'..."
Yesterday, in a 12th-grade class, the theme of discussion was "What is love?" One young man, when confronted with a list of possible definitions, asserted that love is the affection that a mother feels for her child, because he doesn't think anyone can ever love him as much as his mother does. (Sounds to me like a stressful in-law situation awaits some lucky girl...)
And in an 8th-grade class yesterday, during a discussion of global warming, the teacher brought up CFC-free refrigerators, saying that the old appliances made before the ban on CFCs are mostly all gone now. One student, a boy who usually does something clowny at least once per lesson, asked whether the police are allowed to break into households suspected of harboring non-CFC-free fridges in order to arrest the owners thereof.
