Yesterday (Friday) I gave my students a test. It works out really well because Emily comes in to the school on Fridays and supervises their writing test while I pull them out of the class individually in order to do a speaking test. When they're finished their writing test, Emily will often play a game with them or show them a movie on our laptop.
We've taught them 7-up, wink murder (or assassin, as some know it), pictionary, charades, taboo, the animal game (for those that know it, "clap-clap-donkey, clap-clap-snake") and four on the couch, each with varying measures of success. It usually makes for a more relaxing day, which is really nice.
On the writing test itself, I had the students write sentences using different vocabulary words. Sometimes the sentences are more amusing than others, and yesterday was one of those sentences.
The word: "Born"
The sentence: "Be born to the purple."
In a separate class, I had the kids tell me about their favorite trip as their speaking test. The one fellow (in Korean grade 9, Canadian grade 8) told me about a camp that he went to with his family last year (Canadian grade 7). It was his favorite trip and he got to learn all sorts of very interesting things. The biggest problem? People were talking during the presentations so he couldn't hear the teacher.
The type of camp: Accounting. A grade 7 student's favorite trip was an accounting camp where he went to learn how bankers can maintain accounts long-term. And his biggest problem was that he couldn't hear the teacher.
This country is a completely different world sometimes.
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