For my final exams, the students have to give an "Academic Presentation". Basically, one class is doing a persuasive presentation based on a debate topic. The other class is doing an informative presentation based on a topic I gave them. The second class has poor English so I gave them easier topics. They will be going to America, so I decided to give them topics about America. Today I had some presentations about American farms, Wisconsin (yup, I had one do a report on WI!), American sports, American food, President Obama, and a few others.
Sometimes I learn a lot of interesting things, sometimes I have to bite my tongue not to laugh, sometimes I can't hide my confusion. Let me share some of the fun things I experienced this morning.
topic: American weddings mistake: every time this girl said "bride" she pronounced it "bridge"
topic: Obama mistake: he kept pronouncing his name "Opama"
topic: American food mistake: He was explaining pepperoni pizza he said, "Pepperoni pizza has hum, cream, and bread" not sure what hum and cream is
topic:Wisconsin mistake:one of our special products is Panax. I had no idea what it was. I googled it and found out that Panax is the scientific name of ginseng. Little did I know that WI is a main producer of this product!
topic: Jay Chou (famous Taiwanese singer) mistake: not really a mistake, but the girl decided to include his name, age, weight, height, and blood type on her power-point. He has type O blood, if your curious.
topic: understanding other cultures mistake: his conclusion-word for word, "In a nutshell, it is not the only way to understand another culture by living or visiting there. We can read books, surf the Internet, make foreigners and even go to customs of the village. Above these, not only cheap and convenient." make foreigners.... huh????
I have the other half next week. I can't wait!
:) I like it.
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