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khmerhit
Joined: 31 May 2003
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Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit
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Les chiens de Bangkok
Ronflent contents dans la nuit fraiche.
Tiens! Pas de classe tot!
--Jacques Nanathais
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The mutts of Bangkok
Snore soundly in the cool night.
Hey! No early class!
--tr. Khmerhit
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leeroy
Joined: 30 Jan 2003
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Location: London UK
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| Posted: Sat Mar 13, 2004 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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 Brilliant |
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Capergirl
Joined: 02 Feb 2003
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Location: Nova Scotia, Canada
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Don't give up your day jobs.  |
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khmerhit
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Er, what day job?  |
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Wolf
Joined: 10 May 2003
Posts: 1245
Location: Middle Earth
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| Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| denise wrote: |
My sucky attempt at poetry:
Conversation class?
Aaaaah, but that requires talking,
Which students don't do
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Sucky? That ought to be a company motto for major EFL chains.
Okay, let me see... .
What is English for?
Speaking with those not like you.
Do not forget this.
Hmm. I've got an evil toungue twister for Japanese students, though.
The referral girl, Merle, hurled the feral Earl and unfurled her pearled curls. |
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curveegrrl
Joined: 07 May 2003
Posts: 39
Location: Utsunomiya, Japan
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Of course you are late
and your homework is not done.
Tell me something new. |
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Roger
Joined: 19 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Mar 14, 2004 10:24 am Post subject: |
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"les chiens ronflent contents dans la nuit FRAIS..."
Non, monsieur, c'est DANS LA NUIT fraiche... |
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Belmont
Joined: 12 Jul 2003
Posts: 125
Location: Southern California
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| Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2004 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| denise wrote: |
My sucky attempt at poetry:
Conversation class?
Aaaaah, but that requires talking,
Which students don't do
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It's not so sucky. Maybe if you found something to rhyme with "class" might help a little. Just a thought.  |
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curveegrrl
Joined: 07 May 2003
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Location: Utsunomiya, Japan
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I bow to Denise's superior haiku abilities, but this is fun!
Oh little Kuba,
Why are you such an a s s hat?
Sit down and shut up!
Where is the cassette
that goes with today's lesson
I hope it's still cued.
Talk to your partner.
Not to me. To your partner.
NOT . . . oh never mind. |
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khmerhit
Joined: 31 May 2003
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Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit
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| Posted: Tue Mar 16, 2004 3:27 pm Post subject: |
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Curveegirl penned
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Oh little Kuba,
Why are you such an a s s hat?
Sit down and shut up!
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Classic. Good one, Curvee.
khmerhit |
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khmerhit
Joined: 31 May 2003
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Location: Reverse Culture Shock Unit
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This is my day job.
Why are their heads nodding off
Onto the low desks?
The fan on the wall
Accelerates abruptly,
Takes flight like a dove.
Johnny's sleek mother
Sells watches. "Please take care him."
She offers one free.
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 30
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| khmerhit wrote: |
I'll go next, eh?
It's like, 5--7--5, right?
(stretches fingers, cracks knuckles)
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The goddammed aircon
Never works in this s.hithole.
Ah, at last, an evening breeze!
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(takes a bow) |
Well, not just that. And you have to allow for the differences in Japanese and English that makes the number of syllables a bit of a problem... But haiku are actually descriptive, not prose. The understanding comes from describing something observed without stating the internal experience of the observer.
But for our purposes here, not worth worrying about!
My turn:
eyes droop, close, head bobs
laughter, eyes open, head jerks up
clock ticking, head bobs
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brows furrowed, kids staring
drawing, jumping, animal sounds
laughter, smiles, deep breaths
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Beyond haiku:
There once was a new English Teacher
told the textbook he was to feature
who grabbed at it with glee
so sadly to see
he'd be as boring as his preacher
The teacher would not be a preacher
for he was a creative creature
So he made up some things
that good training brings
his class was clearly a real screecher
But the rigid director it seems
had far more economic-al dreams
and the parents complained
their kids brains were strained
play games, dang it! hurry! Make the teams!
The poor teacher he drowned his sorrow
and worked hungover on the 'morrow
his lessons were snappy
students were happy
He thought of more games he could borrow |
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VanIslander
Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 67
Location: temp banned from dave's korean boards
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Haiku is a Japanese artform.
Sijo is an old Korean equivalent.
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Sijo is three lines long and often about nature, but its lines average 14-16 syllables, for a total of 44-46. Either narrative or thematic, this lyric verse introduces a situation or problem in line 1, development (called a turn) in line 2, and a strong conclusion beginning with a surprise (a twist) in line 3, which resolves tensions or questions raised by the other lines and provides a memorable ending.
For example,
one-two rhythm of the stallion trotting down a country lane
he moves through woods over a bridge across a stream and up a hill
well-worn beneath his clockwork feet the dusty road leads home
Another example,
Bandanas wave from cedar boughs; beneath, a pyre of stone.
On army land Geronimo sleeps, clouds pass over the sun.
This warrior cry inside my head, an echo or just a dream. |
So,... here's my Sijo on teaching ESL:
Hello-monsters deemed students by naive elders fall into line
of fire, each of the other and of me, the tree bending
nay, bearing the weight of rotting fruit neglected by hungry 'vores. |
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expatben
Joined: 05 Apr 2005
Posts: 214
Location: UK...soon Canada though
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| Posted: Tue Aug 02, 2005 8:43 am Post subject: |
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| Good! All of it good! I love a good haiku |
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
Posts: 30
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I trusted when I came
I believed when I began
I tried to do my best
I tried to understand
I raged against performing
I fought the disorganization
I sought a sane curriculum
I wanted to teach
I trust not the owners
I believe learning's no goal
I try to survive
I try to get along
I rage against giving in
I fight the cognitive dissonance
I seek sanity in the insane
I want to teach
I trust I will survive
I believe I can teach despite
I try to do my best
I try to work around
I rage from within, quietly
I fight to gain the smallest foothold
I seek to mitigate insanity
Margaritaville? |
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