My students are funny. I was teaching the 4th graders about the weather this week, my first time doing this lesson. I had cards and gestures made up for all kinds of 'typical' boring weather - cold, hot, rainy, snowy, etc. As soon as the lesson starts, one of the hyper kids says "Mai-KE-ru! What about typhoons, and toradoes, and thunderstorms?!" So I think, cool, I'm going to roll with it. I start drawing the disaster weather on the board, and teaching the gestures. They get a big kick out of it, and then I say "Hey kids, what's the worst weather?"
... and the hyper kid goes "GODZILLA!!"
which, of course, makes all the rest of the monkeys crack up. Funny huh?
Anyway, the rest of the conversation practice went like this:
Me: "Hello, Ryusuke"
R: "Ha-ro, Maikeru"
Me: "How's the weather yesterday?"
R: "It's thun-da-stormu."
Me: "How's the weather today?"
R: "It's to-nay-do."
Me: "How's the weather tomorrow?"
R: "IT'S GODZILLA!"
Man these kids crack me up. Only in Japan can Godzilla be a weather pattern.
1 comment:
mike, for real, your students have better english than my high school students! Goes to show how genki they are when they're young..then they give up when they reach high school. I gotta go to elementary school!
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