( I have some wonderful students. Listen to me talk about one of them. )

I had a group of seven year olds tell me yesterday that I couldn't possibly be living on the moon. While this is a perfectly rational statement, their reason for it was a little... um...

Yeah, they told me that I couldn't live on the moon because the moon is on fire.

Come on, I knew moonlight was reflected sunlight when I was seven. Didn't I?

Dialogue to practice - various basic ( Read more... )

Activity: Review verbs (run, jump, walk, fly, swim ( Read more... )

( In which Nalan answers OK to boss!invective and catches flak for comforting a crying kid. )

Today the mother of one of my students (a kid who works hard and is bright and lives forever far away so will be quitting after the speech contest, which makes me sad) looked at me and said, "Are you working too hard? It look like you've lost weight ( Read more... )

Chemistry Boy did not come to class this week. Very sad ( Read more... )

(This conversation took place mainly in Japanese)

6 year old student: Ne, ne, ne, the sixth graders graduated today.

Nalan: Oh, my. Will you miss them?

Student: Of course I'll miss them! What's wrong with you, sensei? DON'T YOU HAVE A HUMAN HEART?Nalan: ::trying very hard not to laugh ( Read more... )

CASE 1: Student learns past and past perfect tenses. (Write, wrote, written. Get, got, gotten.) He comes across the word meet ( Read more... )

I've been teaching the kindergarten classes the question "Where do you live?" over the past few weeks (by which I mean mostly the five-student class over at Tachibana, and the various KG kids who are in classes of ones and twos at scattered points during the week ( Read more... )