Comments on: Homework Party. BYOP: Bring your own pencil http://blog.torgodevil.com/archives/34 Crunky! This is a blog about an English teacher living in South Korea. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:02:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: nonphotoblue http://blog.torgodevil.com/archives/34#comment-40 nonphotoblue Wed, 22 Mar 2006 17:51:08 +0000 http://www.torgodevil.com/?p=34#comment-40 During last week's grammar lesson we were using the structure, "Look at" to explore the possible relationships observers and objects might have with each other. This being elementary school rather than a graduate seminar on the Heisenberg Uncertainty, the "looking at" remained in the realm of simple nouns. "Grandmother look at the apple." "One grandmother 'look-ssss'." "Grandmother look's' at the apple." "Perfect." The second example, "The boys look at the girls." was funny, since my third graders treat the opposite gender like plutonium. So I paused, raised an eyebrow at the boys and said, "Really? Are you looking at the girls?" The boys squirmed, but on the other side of the class, Yun Hee piped up, "The boys look at the *sexy* girls!" During last week’s grammar lesson we were using the structure, “Look at” to explore the possible relationships observers and objects might have with each other. This being elementary school rather than a graduate seminar on the Heisenberg Uncertainty, the “looking at” remained in the realm of simple nouns. “Grandmother look at the apple.” “One grandmother ‘look-ssss’.” “Grandmother look’s’ at the apple.” “Perfect.”

The second example, “The boys look at the girls.” was funny, since my third graders treat the opposite gender like plutonium. So I paused, raised an eyebrow at the boys and said, “Really? Are you looking at the girls?” The boys squirmed, but on the other side of the class, Yun Hee piped up, “The boys look at the *sexy* girls!”

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