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Itsme · Joined: 11 Aug 2004 Posts: 624 Location: Houston, TX

I was sick of my 18 year old students not having English names so I told them they had 1 minute to think of one or else I would give them one.

The names they came up with?? See the subject heading of this post.
I can't tell you how much fun I had calling the same students over and over again during class.

A couple of boys decided that their name was super man. I kindly explained that, since I am superman, they have to be super woman.

The ones who wanted to be King had to be Queen because, you guessed it, I am king.

So the way to solve the problem is to give the students names.
There are lists of popular names on the internet. Shall we begin a list of our own?
I propose the following names:

For boys:
(Kitty kitty, Mrs. Hanky, spanky, )
For girls: (piipiipoopoo, liiliilaalaa, tiitiikaakaa.)

Super Frank · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 365

one of my student's real name is
Shi Ting Yu
and I am not

woza17 · Joined: 25 May 2003 Posts: 602 Location: china

I had God and Jesus in the same class. It was quite amusing for 3 minutes. The kids have no idea of the backgound of these names.

thepreferrednomenclature · Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 80 Location: Beijing, Chaoyang

hey hey, it'sme got a job!

william wallace · Joined: 14 May 2003 Posts: 2869 Location: in between

amandabarrick · Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 391

Most of my students had common names previous teachers had given them or they chose themselves. If not I gave them a list of common names and meanings (as if English names had meanings) and let them choose. In my classes, a few boys and girls have names that when I call out it makes the rest of the class burst into laughter. I don't know where they came up with them.

Boys: Kaka, Wahaha, Automan, Mike Bibby, Hot Sauce, Aruba, Frog Mouse, Mr. Perfect, Harry Potter, Super Computer, Fishwood, Shumacher, Luberchun.

Girls: Icecream, Shakespeare, Shinichi, Juice, Chocolate.

--AB

acwilliams · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 6:16 am Post subject:

william wallace wrote:

Super Mario · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:21 am Post subject:

Super Mario · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:25 am Post subject:

acwilliams · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 8:34 am Post subject:

Super Mario wrote:

KES · Joined: 17 Nov 2004 Posts: 722

Super Frank · Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 365

The sun's not yellow, it's chicken
He just smoked my eyelids and punched my cigarette

I think Bob has a good appreciation of word play, though perhaps he's not as crass as I.

Super Mario · Posted: Wed Apr 05, 2006 10:18 am Post subject:

englishgibson · Joined: 09 Mar 2005 Posts: 4345

I find this as a real problem in China. I can't pronounce their Chinese names and if I do, I might mispronounce them so badly that they'll laugh their a*ses off....a total distraction from a class. Many of Chinese students do not take their English names seriously too. Then, giving them or looking for their English names is at times so troublesome. Thinking of some celebrities/famous people might be helpful, although it can be so time consuming that you might spend one lesson on just assigning English names.

Midlothian Mapleheart · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 623 Location: Elsewhere

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Middy