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The Sundial at Cottesloe doesn’t believe in daylight saving.

Meantime I learned a great new term which I will use with abandon from now on to describe vegetarians who eat fish – I read it in The Big Issue – Looney’s column.
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A vegaquarian.

Brilliant.

Hugamuga, School

Using Web 2.0 as a tool for teaching English

Elephant Stamp with a Gold StarI’m really impressed with my son’s English teacher.

This term the kids are discussing Anne Frank Diary of a Young Girl and Animal Farm by George Orwell.

To connect to her 13-14 year old students she trialled using an online forum to discuss the books. She set up a series of seven topics in the forum per book – six discussion questions and one where they could just give their opinion of the books. She made participating in the forum compulsory. Which I’ve always found to help increase the number of comments myself. 🙂

Hugamuga let me read his comments and I was impressed (not only by his) but also the general level of academic thought these kids had. Not all of them had commented by that time but really some of the comments were advanced.

I emailed the teacher to tell her how blown away I was and she told me that she felt the level of engagement was far higher than that she’d achieved off-line: “In general, I think the students have been more motivated about the content due to its online component, and certainly several students have been more assertive in voicing their opinions than they might have been in class.”

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Hugamuga was one of the students quoted and I think it’s fair to say he was pretty pleased with himself.

But just to prove he’s not a complete suck-up-swot I get an email from his teacher today to ask me to check on his assignment progress as she can’t see much in class.

Miss he’s sitting next to me right now doing his homework – where I can see him!

And a gold star and an elephant stamp for you!

Books

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu Guo

A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers by Xiaolu GuoI picked up this book in my local bookshop last Sunday. It was a toss up between this one and a Philippa Gregory novel Wild…something…

I loved the way this book started. “Sorry of my English.”

Zhuang is a Chinese language student who arrives in London to attend an English language school in order to get ahead in China.

The book begins in broken English: “Is unbelievable, I arriving London, ‘Heathlow Airport’. Every single name very difficult remembering, because just not ‘London Airport’ simple way like we simple way call ‘Beijing Airport’. Everything very confuse way here…”

Broken but charming, her language is quite poetic: “Immigration officer holding my passport behind his accounter, my heart hanging on high sky.”

Xiaolu Guo’s insights are also really interesting and sometimes funny: “People say ‘I’m going to go to the cinema…’ Why there two go for one sentence? Why not enough to say one go to go?”
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I felt inside her skin as she tried to make sense of the alien Western world and as she comments on the differences learning learning learning about her culture.

Now I suppose the title should have given it away… after all “for lovers” is a pretty big hint, but I was surprised at the amount of sex in this book. It’s not confronting, just… surprising. But it makes sense as part of the novel, for this innocent from China is not only discovering the Western World but also herself, her sexuality.

I really enjoyed this novel. It’s very cleverly written. Zhuang’s English gets better and better throughout the book. And as her language gets better, so does the depth of her insight.

My favourite expression is her description of the English sun while she’s in Portugal: “They got a real sun here in their sky, not like in England. English sun is a fake sun, a literature sun.”

Right on the money!

Hugamuga, School

English Homework

I’m actually emailing to let you know that we’ve begun to discuss the chapter questions for Mice and Men and whilst discussing the second question of Chapter 1 [your son] made a very insightful point about George’s benefit of having Lennie around; namely for protection, company and extra income. Leading up to the point [your son] made we had mainly been focussing on Lennie’s need for George, and so I thought [his] comment was a very intelligent and thoughtful one.

English homework has been a focus of mine over the last few weeks following a phone call from his concerned teacher who was worried she wasn’t engaging him. We thought perhaps it was non-engagement due to a lack of confidence in his abilities… and that perhaps some tutoring would help. Anyway as a first step I thought some coaching was in order so I was a bit of a homework nazi making him go back again and again and do the homework properly.

English seems a lot more difficult than I remember from school. The study questions she mentioned were really challenging and sparked a lot of discussion at home as to what they might mean. It helps having an interesting text.
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I hadn’t read Steinbeck’s novella before. I really enjoyed it. What a great piece of work to get your teeth into as a year 8 student. Menace, friendship, murder and tragedy. I can’t remember the novels we did in Year 8 English at school… Tess of the D’Urbervilles rings a bell, and Pride and Prejudice but that might have been English Lit in later years.

One more point: Is there anything more fraught than emailing an English teacher? Thank goodness for spell check. 🙂