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Monday 30 June 2008

Japanese students

...really vary. I've just finished my lesson prep for tomorrow and I'm wondering now how well it's gonna gp. Depends on their mood really - the buggers have a common tendency to pretend that they don't understand causing you to pull your hair out in frustration as you try to explain again and again. Having said that they have impressed me a couple of times...

Over the last couple of weeks I've been watching Spiderman with my 14/15 year olds - doing the usual fill in the blanks, what happens next kind of thing. Then I asked them if they could have one superpower, what would it be and why. Some of the responses were pretty standard - invisibility and that kind of thing...but then I got these:

'I would create my own country to make the world a better place'

'I would have the ability to inhale C02 and exhale oxygen to save the planet'

'I would turn rubbish into trees to save the planet'

'i would have a superbrain so I never have to study'

'I would have x-ray vision to see girls naked'.

You gotta love them...especially after spending today talking about how much they love sausage ;-)

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