As part of my preparation for teaching I'm required to get 25 TEFL volunteer hours. I'm currently a classroom assistant and tutor with Centro Latino in Cambridge (and I highly recommend it if you're looking for someplace to volunteer!) While going over vocabulary today in the ESOL class that I assist the following conversation came up:
Teacher: Repeat after me, kitchen
Students: (collective mumbling resembling the word kitchen)
Teacher: KITCHEN not CHICKEN. You EAT chicken IN the kitchen. Kitchen not chicken.
Later...
Teacher: Dirty. Dirrr-ty. Dirty. Yes, it does sound like turkey. Dirty turkey.
All I have to say is that I am going to have so much fun next year! Teaching English makes you realize how hysterical and nonsensical language can be. Who thinks of this stuff?
2 comments:
"English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark alleys, knocks them unconscious and goes through their pockets for loose grammar."
LOL Well put Jon!
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