The other day I was teaching my third graders transportation words and the word 'ship' was on the vocab list. I held up the flashcard, pronounced the word, and gestured for the students to repeat. Unfortunately, about half the class apparently misheard me and thought the /p/ sound was a /t/. So it was that half of my third graders proceeded to unintentionally and collectively curse in class. I was quick to correct that error!!
The Poles are especially cute when I try to teach them to pronounce the /r/ sound (which always comes out as a /w/) or the /th/ which is always mispronounced as an /f/. I had to try so hard to stay serious as I tried to teach my class of adults to pronounce the word 'rare.'
"Repeat: rare," I directed them.
"Wawe," they said.
"Rrrare," I demonstrated.
"Wwwawe," they said.
And so it went.
A misused preposition never fails to have my class of teenage boys in an uproar (yes, the class is all boys).
Maybe it's my English teacher humor, but this video had me cracking up:
Just remember: don't cry over spilled chickens before they're hatched.
