This week, I am trying to teach the younger students, the first graders (first grade in high school in Korea is 14/15 year olds) about conditional phrases like: "If I were a millionaire I would buy a new car." I had the girls in groups of about five and they had to come up with a list of five things that they would want to have if they were stranded on a deserted island. The variation in responses was tremendous and it was really interesting to see what they either viewed as important to have when stranded on a deserted island or what they simply could not live without. Some of the responses are as follows:
a pregnant pig (they said they would kill the pig and eat it AFTER it had its baby, very smart); a pencil (so they could study); Buzz, Super Junior, etc. (at least three or four teams requested to have their favorite Korean Pop bands and singers with them on the island.); bottle (when asked what they would do with the bottle they said they would put a note in it and ask for help; however they did not have pencil or paper on their list, so they said they would write on a piece of bark using ash from the fire.); MP3 Player (after the battery dies they could wear it as a necklace); mosquito repellant (I was suprised that only one group put that); airplane (very practical); TV(this is something that qualifies as something they don't think they can live without); underwears (Some groups put clothes, so I thought it was interesting that these girls only put "underwears", I guess instead of a "nudist colony", it will be an "underwears colony".); pet (they swore they would not eat this pet even if there was no other food left on the island.); diary (so that they can write it all down and when they return to civilization they can sell it as a novel and get rich; these girls were thinking ahead); pizza (interesing; at least they realize that the pizza guy doesn't deliver to deserted islands...); treeman (this group also had an axe listed; however, they would not use the axe themselves, oh no, they would want to have a treeman who would cut the trees and build them a house.); a boy (to play with, but when asked if they would marry him and have children there were little squeals released from mouths around the room...guess not.)
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
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