Fun Times

Alright let me set this joke up properly. Usually when I'm preparing for a lesson, I just look at the lesson quickly, find out what words I think might need clarifying then I think of a game that could be played (cause everyone loves games). To make it short, I just skim and have the class read out parts as we go along. Well, today I think I should have read ahead. So, I start into the listening portion of the lesson where I have the class listen to the dialogue then repeat after it. It's kind of funny cause today's lesson was about possession, asking about who's (noun or such and such) is this? And then you work together to find out who the owner is. Alright here comes the good part. So... I play the dialogue and a little girl asks her friend "who's ball is that?" and her friend replies "I think it might be Dick's ball." HAHA. I don't know if you think that's funny but try hold a straight face when you randomly hear that on a English learning tape.

Also, this week I finish working on presentations with 3 tobacco scientists. I'm not trying to be mean but most Japanese people can't pronounce "R" and "L" in the same word. For example, "Burley," which is exactly the word that these scientists are traveling around the world presenting on. And after 3 hours of one-on-one with each of them, I gave up. So they will now travel the world saying "barwee" instead of "burley."