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Adventures in ALTing
Sep. 29th, 2012 12:24 amSo if you Google "v-card" a couple companies come up, which makes me think the slang use of the term isn't super widespread, but anyway I once had a co-worker who used it to mean virginity. This past week I discovered that in the new elementary school English textbooks there is an alphabet card exchange game that comes with an audio track in which a middle-aged man says, "I want the v-card, please" and oh my god I was dyingggggggggg. With any luck the people who made the Eigo Noto video will get ahold of it hahaha.
Also, I wrote another dialogue for my JTE to use on an exam. This one was about recycling because the new junior high school textbooks are obsessed with talking about recycling. Anyway, excerpt from my original:
A: "How do you recycle paper in Canada?"
B: "We put paper into a special blue box. One day a week, we put the box outside and recycling trucks take the paper."
A: "What about bottles?"
When I handed this to her I was all if there's any problems let me know and we can fix them together, but yeah. When I saw the test, she had added to A's second line, making it: "You have such a system in Canada. What about bottles?"
I ... what ... why ......
IN MUCH MORE AWESOME NEWS, yesterday I told some of the seventh graders that I like Fullmetal Alchemist and one of them clapped his hands together and then slammed his fists on his desk like he was Edward Elric and it was kind of the highlight of my week. xD
Unrelated to ALTing, recently I read two awful books that are kinda sorta based on the mythology of the Trojan War, and if you are interested you can read my thoughts about them here and here.
Also, I wrote another dialogue for my JTE to use on an exam. This one was about recycling because the new junior high school textbooks are obsessed with talking about recycling. Anyway, excerpt from my original:
A: "How do you recycle paper in Canada?"
B: "We put paper into a special blue box. One day a week, we put the box outside and recycling trucks take the paper."
A: "What about bottles?"
When I handed this to her I was all if there's any problems let me know and we can fix them together, but yeah. When I saw the test, she had added to A's second line, making it: "You have such a system in Canada. What about bottles?"
I ... what ... why ......
IN MUCH MORE AWESOME NEWS, yesterday I told some of the seventh graders that I like Fullmetal Alchemist and one of them clapped his hands together and then slammed his fists on his desk like he was Edward Elric and it was kind of the highlight of my week. xD
Unrelated to ALTing, recently I read two awful books that are kinda sorta based on the mythology of the Trojan War, and if you are interested you can read my thoughts about them here and here.