Fruit can’t spell.
Korean life August 28th. 2007, 11:26pmToday I had a class of young students doing a unit about food, again. Today we talked about the containers and units you use to measure food. “A jar of jam” or “a bottle of ketchup”. That sort of thing. They went through the unit, writing down everything with ease. At the end of class, like always, I told them to open up a notebook and get ready for dictation.
Their about a week away from the next level of the school. Their next week will include grammar classes in their lessons for the first time. The reason I was told to do dictation was to help them have practice writing grammatically correct sentences earlier to lessen the severity of the change.
One student kept having problems with his spelling. I had written several “hints” on the board before the test started, but didn’t give them the entire sentences scrambled as in previous dictation tests. “Teacher! Teacher! Strawberry spelling what? What spelling? What?” He kept asking over and over again. “Strawberry spelling what?”
I’ve explained in previous classes that if someone wants to ask a question for help, or to go to the bathroom, they need to use proper grammar. When he asked me “What spelling?” I told him “W-h-a-t”. He wrote it down, looked, squinted his eyes in comic amusement, then said, “Hey! Strawberry spelling what?!”
I took a marker to the board and drew a fantastic picture of a strawberry holding a pencil writing the word “what” on a piece of paper. The students started laughing. “Teacher? What’s that?”
“A Strawberry spelling ‘w-h-a-t’! Isn’t this what you wanted?”
I told him if he wanted to ask me for hints on how to spell words he should say, “How do I spell this word?”
Instead, he started asking how OTHER fruit would spell words. “Apple spelling ‘this’?” “Orange spelling ‘orangutan!’”
Smart ass.
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August 30th, 2007 at 12:33 am
Their about a week away? (meh, sorry.. I am being a smart ass too).