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The Great English Block- Part 2 (aka. Mr B's suicide)

Oh my frickin frack!!!! What a lesson. Whaaaaat a lesson.
I just taught 3rd year. 3rd year junior high. You'd think.

Today's structure was a revue (of the supposedly already learned) ASK, TELL and SHOW.

We started off with the following:

Can you ask her name ?

This proved to cause problems (amoungst the sea of blank stares) when one student answered "Yes". Technically fantastic English- but not what we were looking for so we had to change it.

The structure then changed to "Please tell/ask/show him/her ...!"

Now....

We spent 20 minutes explaining this to the facking RETARDS (I actually called them retards today- not entirely a good thing, but damn i lost it. I didnt ACTUALLY call em retards - i said AHOYA- which is like idiot.
Not because they didnt understand the English- but because they didnt understand the fucking JAPANESE THAT WAS WRITTEN ON THE BOARD !! GRRRRRRRRRR.

The teacher after writing each word on the board then asked the class what each word meant. Students put up their hands and answered after which she wrote the meaning (IN JAPANESE) next to the English word.

So- I ask one student- "Please ask her name" whilst pointing to a girl next to her.

We spent 10 minutes developing that. I had to overtake the teacher (who was doing a stock standard Japanese teaching approach- ie: give the student the answer and make them repeat) and I broke it down. I was like:
Okay punks- who understands "please show him your pencil case"
No one. (Maybe one). Then i freaked- i was like...listen you bitch ass losers- who understands "please" - hands go up. Who understands "show" - a few hands go up- i called them idiots! (Cause it was on the fucking board in Japanese!!). Next, who understands "him"- hands, "your" -hands....., "pencil case" - hands.
NOW!?!? WHY THE FUCK CANT YOU DO IT!?!?!

*DIES* Im really quite stressed about this.

They knew every single word...but couldnt understand the sentence.. WHY ?!?!?

(I know why....its just damn annoying). Japanese kanji is learned in sets. It literally makes no sense. (Well it does and more so did- but the basics of kanji has been forgotten by many in a drive to streamline its learning to basic rote memorisation). Japanese kanji is not like Chinese. I mean- it is. But- chinese use kanji much like we use the alphabet- stringing together parts of words and sentences- where as japanese use sets of kanji coupled with hiragana. Japanese learn kanji sets. (from the little knowledge i have) Its this learning of sets that prevent them from learning English constituent bits and devolves it into learning sets of language.

I cant remember if I wrote about the "How's the weather, today?" example. Basically- we spent the lesson doing "hows the weather today" and the students could answer perfectly. "its rainy, sunny, windy etc". BUUUUUT

BUT...
When they had to write the meaning of the words in the sentence, there was at LEAST one kid in every class that didnt know the meaning of weather!!!!!!!

*dies again*