21. 4. 2013

Kids say the darnest things


Lekce angličtiny ve virtuálním prostředí Languagelab
Speaking lesson: Kids say the darnest things
Teacher: Donatella Benoir (USA)
Students: Minas, Andreas Franz, Rose, Megi00 (Europa, Asia, South America)
We were in Millie’s house. Millie wasn’t there though. This lesson was led by Donatella. When we entered the house, we heard some water running. We decided to check what’s going on and went around the house. We found a bathroom with some taps on and the whole basin was full of water. We switched off the water and went downstairs to have a cup of coffee. I think people should be more careful and shouldn’t be leaving water or lights on all the time. It would save a lot of energy.
Few more people turned up and we started talking about a garden. Do you have a garden? And how big is your garden? What would you grow in your garden? I’d have just a grass, because I don’t have green fingers UK (green thumb USA)  - To have green fingers or a green thumb means that you are good in gardening. Almost everything I try to grow dies. Donatela has a gardener. She is a one lucky girl. But apparently her garden gets swampy in spring. That means that her garden gets very vet with soft soil.
Donatela was talking about a bug that comes out every 17teen years. It’s called cicada or locust and I think it is a very ugly bug. It is heading her way this year.
Here is a link if you would like to know more.
I don’t know how but we managed to get into the conversation about praying mantis. It’s another sort of insect. The interesting thing is that a female eats the male after mating. Here is a link to see how praying mantis looks like.
[07:37] Andreas Franz: not funny for the male :P
And as Andreas added could be fun for the female but not too much fun for the male….
The last but not least thing we talked about were children.
Kids say the darnest things – means the most daring and craziest things.
Here is an example.
Mina’s little nephew was looking for his ball and asked his pregnant aunt:’ Did u hide my ball under your skirt?’
‘No, I didn’t, I am pregnant. There is a little baby inside my tummy.’ She answered laughing.

This lesson targeted informal conversation. In EC you don’t learn just English but many other things as well.

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