Tuesday, 17th November 2009
Good morning class.
My name is Ms. Nicole.
(scramble to tape up lyrics)
Number lines 1-14 in your copy book
(circulates) No, no. Not: 1, 2, 3.
(find student who has done it correctly, hold up notebook) Your paper should look like this:
1.
2.
3.
ect.
Today we will listen to a song, but first I will read it through and we will go over any vocabulary that you don't understand.
...what is to catch? (begins vocab list on the board)
...what is a light?
No.. not "correct, not "right"" (they don't differentiate between l and r here.. play/pray - very complicated. "you do not play to your god, you pray to your god")
.. a light.. look up. See, that's a light. But here, "light" means a flame.. a lighter, what you use to light a cigarette.
... what is aching? (crickets)
okay.. if I hit my arm on the wall, it would hurt.
I could say that my arm is aching.
Aching = to have pain.
Rogaine. I doubt you know what that is.
Um... it is a cream. When men begin to lose their hair, they use Rogaine, they put it on their head and it makes their hair grow back.
Rogaine = hair growth cream.
Patches? What is a patch?
(fumble for explanation). Okay! See my sweater, see how there's a hole in it? (students giggle). Well, if I were to take some fabric and sew that over the hole, to fix it, that would be a patch.
Who wants to fix my hole?
(blush - realizing what I'd said. giggles from observing trainees in the back).
Tear.. to tear. What is "to tear"?
(picks up piece of paper) Okay, if I do this (tears the paper), I tore the paper.
Tear = to rip. ("do you know what rip means? ..it means to tear.. that was a bad explination")
Alright,
We will listen to this song several times.
The first time, just listen.
Pens down (Demonstrate - put pen down on the desk)
Just listen.
Then, we will listen to fill in the blanks.
It's okay if you don't know the whole word, just write down what you hear.
Everyone needs to be silent, can you hear in the back?
No?
Come up to the front.
It's okay, you can come closer, come stand around this desk (points to desk with ipod and speakers). You need to be able to hear this, so make sure you move if you have to.
Ready? Everyone quiet now.
Okay, remember, just listen this first time...
The Way I Am
Ingred Michaelson
If you were (1)______
Then I (2)______ catch you
You need a light
I’d find a (3)______
Cus I love the way you say (4)______
And you take me the way I am
If you are (5)______,
Here take my (6)______.
Your (7)______ is aching?
I’ll make it better.
Cus I (8)______ the way you call me (9)______
And you take me the way I am
I’d (10)______ you Rogain
When you (11)______ losing all your hair
(12)______ on patches
To all you tear
Cus I love you more than I could ever (13)______
And you take me the way I am
You take me the way I am
You take me (14)______
And so it went.
Explaining that "sew" is not "saw" - the past tense of to see, and that match actually has another meaning and isn't referring to a football game (or match) here. And "baby", yes, it's a child or an infant, but also is a name you call your "sweetheart".
This class of 50 older students (most around 20 or so), is typically very quiet and hesitant to participate, but by the end of class, we had the whole song translated and most everyone singing.
It was wonderful. Proud teacher moment, right there.
On Thursday, I think that I will finish up the rest of the lesson that I did not get to on Tuesday (it is now Wednesday morning, I am sitting outside finishing up this entry - the sun is out, just a patch of thin clouds off in the distance. hopefully another read-in-the-sun kinda afternoon). I will have students write what they think the song is about, share with a partner, share with the class (they call this: Think, Pair, Share - in the "teacher" world).. then I will have them write their own lyrics using the conditional. If ______, Then ______ for their sweetheart (of course), or "imagination".
Picture someone saying "Imagination!" holding their pointer fingers up in the air, eyes open wide. Here it's used to refer to anything that's pretend.. or requiring imagination.
Alright, I think I will "Imagination!" (fingers up towards the sky!) that I am wide awake and make my way over to breakfast - which is right next door. We had to move from our center across the street (the owner was asking something like 500,000 USD/month - or something outrageous like that) to a different school right down the street - which was then decided to be unsafe (no bars on the windows, ect) to a big ol' fancy house that sat vacant right next door. I was shocked to find out that no one occupied this place as every day, an old man with his cane and radio sits outside on his wooden chair, guarding the establishment. Rain or shine. I really want to photograph this man. I'll see if I can warm him up to the idea.
Have a beautiful day.
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