Friday, November 07, 2008

Where's Uranus?

Wednesday afternoon all the Elementary Schools in Gwangmyeong converged on an outdoor park and set up tents to have an English Festival. Each school had to come up with a mini lesson to teach to kids as they wandered around using their English in hopes of getting some candy. I know it cost the school board a good chunk of change and I'm not 100 percent sure of the effectiveness of this but the kids that did come had fun. This is what I love about Korea, kids will actually stick around and practice their English on foreigners instead of running off ten minutes after the opening ceremony to hang out in front of convenience stores scaring old people.

Our tent was a space themed tent where kids had to give directions. We first played a game of Simon Says to go over turning left, right and going straight. The kids then had to come up to our map of the universe, select a piece of paper from a box and then guide their rocket ship using the target language to the planet their paper told them to go. I of course had to suppress my third grade chuckles each and every time I was given a slip of paper where I had to ask, "Where's Uranus?" Good times.

2 comments:

Shells Bells said...

haha Uranus is such a great word.

Darth Gateau said...

I love juvenile humour and use it liberally throughout everyday life!