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This week I am doing a lesson about Shopping. Hey, it's "Conversational" English; I'm trying to make it useful. I thought that my lessons lately were starting to get a little dry, so I wanted to flash them up with some audiovisual flair. Enter the Internet. Somehow, through the awesome power that is YouTube, I bumbled across this quote/un-quote "Japanese Reggae" song about a very ugly but very blinged-out girl barging into a high school math class to teach them how to shop.
I played it for the kids today as a lesson warm-up, and, to my great surprise, they didn't know what the hell to make of it. I figured since it was in Japanese and at a high school and it was SHOPPING, they would be all over it, but I think bewilderment was the word today. I don't think they were looking for the same campy value that I saw in it. I think they watched it and wondered 1) Why the song sucks so badly and is so terribly annoying and 2) Why is this bonehead hijacking 2 minutes of our day to make us listen to it.
Oh well. I know at least some of the livelier kids got it. Gosh knows it made my day better, and in the end, that's all that really matters.
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Jay san: Perhaps you should follow-up this film with the sequel, which most logically would be "Exchanging Purchased Items". You could team-teach and have Paul's mother present this lesson. It would be fascinating for the females who intrinsicaly sense that they must master the extortionist art of forcing honest merchants to take back and fully credit items which they thought were sold. The same lesson will terrify the males who know this is wrong and regard it as "Retail Terrorism." Paul's mother has won international fame for this having been documneted returning 1-year-old underwear for a full refund. She will soon be offering this class to spouses of San Quentin inmates, so the Japanese children could get in on the ground floor, or perhaps the mezzanine. Hope you are able to use this info and that it is not ... Lost in Translation.
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