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[Len8]

This is from the book "I am a teacher in Korea" by Cho Byok

"One day a school inspector visited an elementry school. He happened to find a globe in the classroom and asked a student next to it, "Why is this globe slanted?" The boy answered embarrassedly, "I didn't do that." Then, the school inspector, with open mouth, asked the teacher the same question. The teacher, afraid of being scolded, said,"It had been slanted before I came here in this school". the school inspector got so angry and this time he asked the principal. And the principal answered, "As you know, that's a globe made in Korea." And then, the school inspector thought to himself, "Next time, I'll buy one made in U.S.A. for you"

Anyway my point is the book is in Korean and it might be worth having it translated. The above section was translated by a teacher where I work for a demo lesson for Korean Highschool and Middleschool teachers at a two week teachers camp. Teachers are forced to attend these camps, and have their own fixed ways of teaching, but they are appreciative of activities to generate conversation. They lack the chance to converse contantly in English so the opportunity to do so makes the camp worth while.

According to teacher doing the demo lesson the quote is divided into 4 parts. Namely

1 Evasion of Responsibility- the students reply

2 Mannered languishment-the teachers reply

3 Distrust-principle's answer

4 Blind Belief- Inspector following blindly

The above four points were part of the teachers demo lesson as well

[Privateer]

It might be worth having it translated by someone who can speak English.

I hate the grotesquely crude, stilted, and ungrammatical English you find in a lot of these textbooks.

[Ya-ta Boy]

and not one of the 4 people mentioned being aware that the earth's axis is tilted

[Medic]

Maybe the book mentioned by the OP shouldn't be translated at all.