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[ls650]

For Friday's last class, I brought a stack of picture cards to class that showed various actions: kicking, walking, watching TV, washing dishes, etc. I then gave out the cards to the students and asked each person to mime the actions on two different cards, while the others tried calling out what the activity was. I did this to make sure every student knew the vocabulary for routine activities.

I then asked each student to write three sentences about activities they like to do: "I like playing videogames", "I like drinking beer", etc. I then asked them to turn to their neighbor and ask their partner "Would you like to (verb) with me?" I did this to get the students used to using 'would' for making requests.

A few minutes later I started to hear some students bursting into laughter. As I walked around, I noticed more students doing this. What the..?

I then realized what was going wrong. Many of the students had written for one of their favorite activities "I like sleeping", so they were turning to their neighbor and asking "Would you like to sleep with me?"

Whoops. Ah well, I guess they'll remember this lesson for a long time!

[Samantha]

That's funny! Mexicans have such great senses of humor overall and are a joy to teach (mostly!) One of my young students insists that her favorite season is winter and her favorite activity is skiing. (She was born and raised by the beach and has never seen a snowflake in her life.)