Correcting the 1st year English midterms....
A collection of interesting answers. <3
Q: If you call Ms. Natalie and want to ask her what she's doing, what do you say?
CORRECT ANSWER: "What are you doing (now)?"
A: "What is it now?"
A: "Wats?"
A: "What is this?"
A: "I'm speak English?"
A: "Whose Ms. Natari doing."
A: "I timu bont play." (???)
A: "Where you playing now?"
A: "What is are you doing?" (Hedging their bets...)
A: "iPley stabey."
A: "What time is it now?"
Q: Where is your house?
A: "Yes, it's summer."
A: "Yes, he bas"
A: "Here." (<3 <3)
A: "Yes"
A: "No."
A: "It's studying English"
A: "whet"
Q: (There is a picture that they must write three sentences about. A girl named Tomomi is listening to music, a boy named Kenta is running, and two children named Yuji and Miki are playing tennis)
A: "Tomomi moujituk."
A: "Yuji and Miki are tennising now."
A: "Tomomi is the music."
A: "I pley baseball."
Q: If someone is walking too quickly on a dangerously icy street, what do you say?
CORRECT ANSWER: "Be careful." "Don't walk fast." (or stuff like that, as long as it's proper.)
A: "bont"
A: "You are not quickly!"
A: "Be careful is fast."
A: "Don't warking fast!" (<3 <3)
A: "Don't fost."
A: "Exuce cus me?"
A: "No"
A: "Don't could road walking." (I wish I could give this kid a bonus point. It's obvious he's trying to say "Don't walk on a cold road" or something like that. Creative!)
A: "Don't farst."
A: "rood wooking."
A: "Look! lunning not!"
A: "Excuse me. Be careful." (This was correct. I just thought it was precious.)
Q: You don't know where Miyazu Station is. How do you ask someone?
CORRECT ANSWER: "Where is Miyazu Station?"
A: "I don't ho."
A: "Miyazu Station?" (Though this would work, probably. <.<)
A: "What's Miyazu Station?" (close, honey!)
A: "How is a Miyazu Station?"
Q: You see someone swimming in an area with a 'no swimming' sign. How do you give them a strong warning?
CORRECT ANSWER: "Don't swim (here)." or "Be careful."
A: "What do you do swimming"
A: "Don't is swimming!"
A: "Swimming be careful." (Really close! I thought this was a great try.)
Q: How is the weather today?
A: "I am studying English"
A: "It's crudy."
A: "It five-ten."
They tried so hard!! Well, most of them did....some of them I'm not sure what they want to be saying, but...
Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Friday, January 22, 2010
Twice in a week? WHAT.
It's me again!
I had elementary school today. The whole morning, the whole day, I prayed. I was like, "please don't let this be a horrific disaster that ends in me feeling like I got hit by a truck."
It wasn't. Thank God.
One of the fifth grade classes has a new teacher. I'm not really sure of the details, but I think she started from winter break. About ten minutes into class I got that she had about the same feelings about the class as I did, so that made me relieved that it wasn't just me.
But again, they weren't so bad today. I ate lunch with the fifth grade class with the new teacher and sat with the kids while they played Pokemon shiritori. Shiritori is a game where you say a word and the next person has to come up with a word that starts with the last letter of the previous word. It's pretty easy unless you limit it to something. Like Pokemon.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I could contribute to the conversation...but. I knew just enough of the Pokemon names in Japanese (and enough of the ones in English that were the same both ways) that the kids were really kind of confused. It was cute.
I'm zonked, folks. I can't wait to wipe out this weekend.
I had elementary school today. The whole morning, the whole day, I prayed. I was like, "please don't let this be a horrific disaster that ends in me feeling like I got hit by a truck."
It wasn't. Thank God.
One of the fifth grade classes has a new teacher. I'm not really sure of the details, but I think she started from winter break. About ten minutes into class I got that she had about the same feelings about the class as I did, so that made me relieved that it wasn't just me.
But again, they weren't so bad today. I ate lunch with the fifth grade class with the new teacher and sat with the kids while they played Pokemon shiritori. Shiritori is a game where you say a word and the next person has to come up with a word that starts with the last letter of the previous word. It's pretty easy unless you limit it to something. Like Pokemon.
I'm embarrassed to admit that I could contribute to the conversation...but. I knew just enough of the Pokemon names in Japanese (and enough of the ones in English that were the same both ways) that the kids were really kind of confused. It was cute.
I'm zonked, folks. I can't wait to wipe out this weekend.
Monday, January 18, 2010
SHAAAAME.
First of all, I am SO SORRY neither of us has posted! It hasn't been crazy, we've both just been lazy. Lazy, crazy. Crazy, lazy. Let's call the whole thing off.
*dance*
Anyway! We've both been going through some..uh.. difficulties. I had a really nasty awful cold around Christmas that left me really shaky and with a hanagoe (froggy voice - the Japanese call it 'nose voice') for about two weeks. I'm pretty sure it was some mild bronchitis ...thing, but knowing my stubbornness about the doctor (which is completely without reason here, seriously) I just chilled out until it went away. Then as soon as that was over I had another slight problem that increased in pain and intensity until this past Friday. I won't go into details (because they're TMI) but like, I wasn't getting any sleep, I was shaky and nauseated with pain (and painkillers, woowoo!) but again, stubbornly, I didn't go to the doctor.
"This is WAY too embarrassing to go to the doctor for." I stubbornly insisted, instead relenting to taking 2+ hot showers a day and more baths than I'd taken cumulatively over the rest of the time we've been here.
Which is a real shame, because Japanese baths are awesome.
Now, however, my Alex has come down with some kind of bug!! I have to say, (insensitively), that I'm glad that I finally have the opportunity to do something for him, since he has been very sweetly taking care of me and tolerating my whining for....um...the past month or so. So I'm really concerned about him (he's all achey and stuffy, poor kitty) but also really overexcited about what I can do. I'm going to try cooking stuff I'm not used to cooking, we'll see how that goes.
That made me think of taking pictures of the process which reminded me -- I have pictures of my classroom displays, but I left them at home - I'll put them up at the next post.
As far as non-awful things that have been happening, there are plenty of those too! We went to an Ebisu festival a while ago -- Ebisu is one of the seven luck gods of Japan, and he's all about protecting children and making money. Not sure if it's in that order. But he's a generally happy guy, and his main festival is in March, which is when all the gods go to some god convention somewhere else in Japan. So there are no gods and there's no use praying to any of them during that time....except for good old Ebisu, who happens to be deaf and just completely misses the summons. I like Ebisu.
Anyway, the festival was nice; we ate at a really fun restaurant afterwards that was basically a 'things you dip into things' restaurant (and it's close to our apartment! We're so taking people there!) and then the next day we went to Fukuchiyama for a movie.
The movie we went to was called "Nodame no Cantabile" (Nodame's Cantabile...that was easy) and was about students at some kind of music/performance college in Paris. It was a comic, it was an anime, it was a live-action TV drama, and now it's a live-action movie. I fangirled over the classical music the whole time. It was really....anime-esque though, and goofy...but it was really cute.
Lenny, you would love it, go see it, hee.
What else...um...I got nothin'. Alex made salsa for me. <3 I found out some of my vacation times, so that's good. But if someone wants to visit or someone wants me to come visit, you gotta let me know ASAP -- gotta fit in a visit home for the parents, and a couple visits here that I'm having arranged....mwahahaha.
Sorry for the stream of consciousness. How are you guys doing?
*dance*
Anyway! We've both been going through some..uh.. difficulties. I had a really nasty awful cold around Christmas that left me really shaky and with a hanagoe (froggy voice - the Japanese call it 'nose voice') for about two weeks. I'm pretty sure it was some mild bronchitis ...thing, but knowing my stubbornness about the doctor (which is completely without reason here, seriously) I just chilled out until it went away. Then as soon as that was over I had another slight problem that increased in pain and intensity until this past Friday. I won't go into details (because they're TMI) but like, I wasn't getting any sleep, I was shaky and nauseated with pain (and painkillers, woowoo!) but again, stubbornly, I didn't go to the doctor.
"This is WAY too embarrassing to go to the doctor for." I stubbornly insisted, instead relenting to taking 2+ hot showers a day and more baths than I'd taken cumulatively over the rest of the time we've been here.
Which is a real shame, because Japanese baths are awesome.
Now, however, my Alex has come down with some kind of bug!! I have to say, (insensitively), that I'm glad that I finally have the opportunity to do something for him, since he has been very sweetly taking care of me and tolerating my whining for....um...the past month or so. So I'm really concerned about him (he's all achey and stuffy, poor kitty) but also really overexcited about what I can do. I'm going to try cooking stuff I'm not used to cooking, we'll see how that goes.
That made me think of taking pictures of the process which reminded me -- I have pictures of my classroom displays, but I left them at home - I'll put them up at the next post.
As far as non-awful things that have been happening, there are plenty of those too! We went to an Ebisu festival a while ago -- Ebisu is one of the seven luck gods of Japan, and he's all about protecting children and making money. Not sure if it's in that order. But he's a generally happy guy, and his main festival is in March, which is when all the gods go to some god convention somewhere else in Japan. So there are no gods and there's no use praying to any of them during that time....except for good old Ebisu, who happens to be deaf and just completely misses the summons. I like Ebisu.
Anyway, the festival was nice; we ate at a really fun restaurant afterwards that was basically a 'things you dip into things' restaurant (and it's close to our apartment! We're so taking people there!) and then the next day we went to Fukuchiyama for a movie.
The movie we went to was called "Nodame no Cantabile" (Nodame's Cantabile...that was easy) and was about students at some kind of music/performance college in Paris. It was a comic, it was an anime, it was a live-action TV drama, and now it's a live-action movie. I fangirled over the classical music the whole time. It was really....anime-esque though, and goofy...but it was really cute.
Lenny, you would love it, go see it, hee.
What else...um...I got nothin'. Alex made salsa for me. <3 I found out some of my vacation times, so that's good. But if someone wants to visit or someone wants me to come visit, you gotta let me know ASAP -- gotta fit in a visit home for the parents, and a couple visits here that I'm having arranged....mwahahaha.
Sorry for the stream of consciousness. How are you guys doing?
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