Oh little children! How your purity and innocence are merely veils hiding your true corrupt selves! Have I got a few stories for you all today. Somehow they all deal with my 6 to 7 year olds.
First, in one class a couple weeks ago, I was using flash cards with pictures of various simple objects like animals and articles of clothing on them and my students had to tell me the English word. On each card was written the first letter in English that the word started with. So for example, for ‘Umbrella’ there was a picture of an umbrella and a big U under it. Everything was going smoothly until we got to cow. The kids looked at the card and starting mumbling the letter C to themselves. “C...C...C...” and then somehow the collective consciousness veered 3/4ths of the class to yell out “Sex!” I’m still confused to this day as to why.
Then in another class a girl asked me, “How do you say homosexuel in English?” I blinked, looked at her confusingly and asked her to repeat her question. Surely she didn’t ask me what I thought she said. She repeated her question again and sure enough it was what I’d heard the first time. So reluctantly, I replied, “Homosexual” to which one of her neighbors pipped up and said, “Yes, that’s the word we’re asking you. But how do you say it in ENGLISH?” (sigh...)
Finally in yet another class the little brats were acting horribly and I couldn’t get them to calm down and listen and finally at one point I raised my voice and said, “Will you please sit down and quiet down! You just run around and you never listen!” Then, the smartass of the class, Etienne, placed his finger behind his ear and sarcastically said, “Quoi?” If it wasn’t one of the funniest moments I ever experienced, I probably would have sent him in the hall. But come on; that was good.
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