Often people ask me if I prefer to teach adults or children, and the truth is that I have a clear answer. If all my classes were with children, I guess that would end a bit hartita, but this year for example I have only two sets of smallish, and the truth is that I enjoy them as a dwarf, as I always say, children are the pump and I feel privileged to spend time with them and somehow be a participant or witness to his way of life of his reasoning, his doubts ...
This past Tuesday, for example, was in class with a group of three boys and a girl, about nine years. We were doing an exercise where they had to find adjectives in a text, and then pair of opposites: cold-hot, big-little ... Angel then asked me "Can we put blue? "" No, because the colors are opposites, what is the opposite of blue? " What a silly question. "red" "he answered without thinking. "Okay," I replied seems amused me very well. Well if you put it " You see to me what I'm going, this is English class, not language-thought.
Then I remembered a story that Guy told me long ago, a day playing taboo in class, one child had a card reading "Cat" and had to define it so that your partner guess what was. "The opposite of a dog" - said. Of course your partner does not mean guess soon.
In class children often take the opportunity to give vent to my postpartum and even cause them to see where I go. And I love, because they are so richly my nonsense, not only not surprised, but I often come up with a few things that left me stunned me. The fact is that to tinker around with their minds asked them "OK, what's the Opposite of dog?" "Cat" unison they replied without hesitation. "Aha ... And "The Opposite of fish?" les questioned with some malice. Here the response was more coming, but not too: Ivan me black eyes looked LF tab, and I said so seriously, as if meditating after having the absolute certainty of having found the correct answer: "Horse."
-Aha ... What is the opposite of fish?
-Horse.
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