Me: "The big news in England today is that Prince William is engaged"
..momentary pause & slightly blank expression..
Landlord: "Prince William? Is he the younger one? Son of Philip? No?"I dutifully put him right only to be asked "So is this a big thing then?" ..."Yes" ... "Oh, that I will never understand". Ohh Germany, you know you're jealous of our monarchy really!
In other chuckle-worthy news of the day... Klasse 6 were learning school subjects and how English schools are different to German ones. Now obviously I'm not going to nit-pick every mistake and demoralise them, but some I can't bear to ignore. Today's highlight? 'Language' spelt "langwich', like a sandwich. Legend.
Next? One of my year 5 classes. Last lesson they learned the alphabet (with the help of a 'rap') so we took half the class each to practise spelling. Fine, as long as the words you want don't contain the letters 'A E I R W'! Not so great idea number one - asking the kids to spell their names... would have been a lot easier if I knew what they were in the first place. Dread to think how many of them can now 'spell' their names incorrectly in English! Second mistake - asking "what other English words can you spell?" Cue one cheeky sod to suggest "f*ck you". Ahh, kids eh?
Somewhat worryingly I have been promoted within Klasse 8 once more, no longer just native speaker who teaches occasional grammar points / exercises, but I have now been given the task of planning their whole lesson next week, on anything :/ uh oh. Suggestions welcome!
Completely unrelated, I have also survived a trip to a German hairdressers! Can't say I'll be rushing back to the same one, but the international language of gesticulation supplemented by some dodgy German seemed to do the trick!
I did a debate about school uniform with my Klasse 8 and got them to design their own uniform with labels and write what was better about theirs than the traditional british uniform
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