Another round of History and Culture tests!

Here are the gems my students wrote for my last History and Culture tests. Wow, they take a while to correct, but when I get things like this, it makes it worth it :)

1. Easter is a festival in memory with the rebirth of chris.

In acient Rome, Chris was betraded by his student Yoda, a Jewish, and captured by the Rome soiders, who nailed Chris on the cross then. People hided the body of Jesus in a cave. Three days after, people found that the Jes-s body had gone, which indicates the rebirth of Jes-s. Gradually, the E-ster became a holiday of celebrating the advent of spring and the return of good things.

2. Chr.stmas: Long time ago, a child’s grandpa usually send gifts to other children, after the grandpa died, the boy always wanted to find where his grandpa was. And he left the town, before the December 25^th, an old man rode a track, and many presents with him, the old man took the boy and sent children gifts. Then the second day, just December 25^th became the new day, people called Chr.istmas.

3. In Christmas, every family will decorate a tree with different things to make it more bueatiful which called Satan tree…

4. GCSE- correct answer-General Certificate of Secondary Education- given answer-Geographic Classic Selective Emotion. I told them if they didn't know the answer to guess, that they might guess correctly, this was a poor guess :)

First Week

It's Saturday afternoon and I just finished my first week of teaching. This year I teach Monday afternoons, Tuesday morning and afternoon, and Saturday mornings. I don't really enjoy having to get up Saturday morning for school, but it's nice that it gives me a three day weekend during the week.

Even though I don't teach little kids anymore, there are still times that funny things happen in class. My first funny happened when I was reading their reflections about their English level.

• I put Brownsville on the board, but not my name. My name was on the powerpoint. One of my students wrote in their paper to me, "Dear Browsnville, I hope you can ask me more questions..." Oh how silly she must have felt when we played a name game and she found out my name was Jessica :)
• Next thing happened today. I had "Chicken" on my powerpoint and I asked what a Chicken was. One of the boys yelled out, "it's a place where you prepare food". Hahaha! "No, that's a kitchen. This is a little different."
• Finally, towards the end of class I was walking to the back of the room and a boy put his hand to his mouth and started whispering something to me. I didn't quite get it, so he said it again, "Nature's calling" I said, "ok, go ahead" and he got up and ran out. Oh... the things that may happen this year :)