Monday, August 11, 2008

Fun with students

In my English Salon group a couple nights ago I taught the students how to play "Do you love your neighbor?" Whatever student was caught in the middle had to do a song or a dance for the whole group. I had a girl sing Chinese opera, another sing all verses and chorus of a Backstreet Boys song, and, my favorite, an on the spot English translation of a Chinese children's song Two Tigers, sung to the tune of Frere Jacques:
"Two tigers, two tigers
Running fast, running fast,
One has no ears,
The other has no ass,
Very strange, very strange"

(Lost in translation: "Ass" should have been "tail") Very strange indeed!
All performances were very impressive, but it was my headstand that stole the show!

Also, today in class we had a boy named Fack. We made him change it, so now he is called Black.
We asked who their heroes are and a student said Optimus Prime. We asked if they could have one superpower what would it be and a student said all of his hands would be guns so he could kill all the thieves and bad guys to help the police. Awesome.

3 comments:

Cami said...

HAHA. Kids are so funny! What age are you teaching? It sounds like you are having lots of fun. Are the kids speaking Chineese or English?

Ambie said...

RIA!!! Hope ur havin' a great time!! Good luck teaching!! Tell ur students hi! We luv ya!!

Sheldon Jen & Ryanne said...

I totally remember that game! Do you remember that other game.....um I think it was "How much do you love me?" or are those the same games?