English as a Foreign Language Teacher’s Challenge

This one’s for all you English as a Foreign Language Teachers (and students who wish to really enrich their vocabulary) . . . as regular readers know, I am an Associate Professor at a university and am no stranger to English as a Foreign Language teaching . . . far from it.

Well, fellow teachers, here’s your challenge . . . a bit of a game with two parts.

PART ONE: CULTURAL AND LINGUISTIC AWARENESS

Show students the following video and then go over it bit by bit and have them correctly define the vocabulary words used. If you don’t know what felching and frottage means then the video seems rather benign and not very funny. However, if you know the meaning of all the terms used, it’s a much more provocative piece . . . http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcnbfHGPxT0 . . . sorry, no embed but go watch it and then come back.

PART TWO: DON’T BE DIRTY

Teach a series of adult vocabulary words (those in the previous challenge would do wonderfully) and ask students to explain them without “being dirty.”

Not as easy as it seems!

Of course, if you actually do take up this challenge . . . expect two things to happen . . .

One: There will be complaints . . .

Two: You Will Likely Be Looking for a New Job

Not certainly, but likely . . . no video illustration required.

Then again . . . it’s all language and it doesn’t always make much sense all the time anyway . .

All the best,
Brian

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Brian David Phillips, PhD, CH [brian@briandavidphillips.com] Hypnotist, Hypnotherapist, Intuitionist, Trance Wizard
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Associate Professor, NCCU, Taipei, Taiwan