my new personal favorite team name: Team Defend Victoria. hahah
this summer i am working in an English academy that is predominantly Korean students. the Korean parents here are supposedly even more gung-ho about their children learning English than the Chinese parents are, so i have to teach them a lot of new vocabulary, and some the words are pretty hard- finicky, rely, gradually, confess, etc. the kids catch on to new words pretty quickly though, especially if i give them easy-to-remember examples that they can associate the meanings with. for example, for the word gradually, i told them, "gradually means slowly. at first hillary (one of the students) was very quiet. then, she started talking a little more. and then a little more. soon, hillary was very loud in class. hillary gradually became a crazy student." they all thought this was pretty funny, so now if i ask them what gradually means, they cite this example. and now i know they know what defend means! that was also one of their vocabulary words. i am so proud of them.
this team name was invented by the crazy girl hillary. hillary can be a pain- i think she has some adhd going on, but she is a clever little girl. at 11, she is by far the youngest in the class (1 student is 16 and the other 3 are 13) but she is not shy at all about it. we were playing a game today where they had to make up sentences using the vocab words, and even though the 16 year old was in her group, she was the one making up and writing the sentences! she's much braver than i would have been in that situation...that's probably why her english is so good right now.
My daughter has ADHD. She is 35 now however, never gone to college.
ReplyDeleteDefend against what?
ReplyDeletei don't know, but today it was 'team defend victoria with an i pad 2' hahah
ReplyDeleteli zhong, i'm sure your daughter has many admirable qualities.
-xia tong
oh, the other team was 'team chicken is delicious and terrence (a student in the class) is malicious' which i was super proud of them for because we had just learned the word malicious and the day before we talked about rhyme...that's a perfect rhyme!
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Is Terrance really malicious? Or if not, when will you teach them a lesson about slander?
ReplyDeletei definitely portrayed terrence as being malicious in my vocab examples. he could handle it. although my girls took it too far- the last team name of the class was 'Team Betty, Hillary and Jenny Defend Victoria with an I Pad 2 because Terrence Tried to Hit Her.' My goodness. Then Terrence wanted his team to be called 'Team Bye Bye Victoria', which I at first interpreted very darkly, but then realized it was probably just because that was the last class and I was leaving. lol.
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It's all fun and games until 10 years from now, when you're walking down a poorly-lit street and out of the bushes jumps Terrence and the iPad 2 has been out of production for quite some time.
ReplyDeletelol, that was pretty good, but it also shows the depths of your mind's disturbances -xia tong
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