Fierce_LiNk Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 I cracked up at that video. You'd make an excellent children's tv presenter. (in the best possible way). Good video, man. I have been eating cereal (asda's own brand honey nut loops which I highly recommend) whilst listening to Blue Oyster Cult and The Zombies. A positive end to the day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The fish Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 I cracked up at that video. You'd make an excellent children's tv presenter. (in the best possible way). Good video, man. Cheers, my parents said the exact same thing, funnily enough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fierce_LiNk Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Cheers, my parents said the exact same thing, funnily enough! Its the voice and the hand gestures, along with the "everybody" parts. Little kids love that sheeeet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dannyboy-the-Dane Posted November 18, 2010 Share Posted November 18, 2010 Cheers! I'm assuming they're in their first year of learning with little exposure beforehand (as the average student age will be about 7). At their level, they're not meant to understand what each and every word means, only the phrases. The vocabulary being taught here are colours (as a recap, as they would have learnt them very early, as well as the word "colours") and clothes, as the main focus. There was a demo video done by one of the school's teachers, which I based the level on. Some of the competition literally copied it out right, or made far, far to complex lessons. I hate to sound mean, but all the bad videos I've seen are done by Americans... "Fiddiculty" is indeed an awesome word - I'm so teaching my students it! Ah, I see. That makes great sense. I cracked up at that video. You'd make an excellent children's tv presenter. (in the best possible way). Good video, man. I have been eating cereal (asda's own brand honey nut loops which I highly recommend) whilst listening to Blue Oyster Cult and The Zombies. A positive end to the day. Exactly! I knew it reminded me of something! You're going to be the next star of a children's programme, Fish! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The fish Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 They are clearly Blue Jeans and not trousers. Um, jeans simply are trousers made from denim... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoogleViper Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Sha-zam! It's teaching English to very young children as a second language, if you're wondering. I thought this was a spoof. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The fish Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 I thought this was a spoof. Haha, no, this is actually how you teach young & very young children (at most, maybe 7 year olds) a foreign language! Of course, as you live in the UK, you won't be all too familiar with the concept, given our shite public language education. Why oh why oh why was I taught French and German in English, and only starting when I was 11??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nekunando Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 I just got an offer of yet more football tonight I just hope my leg recovers in time as I pretty much got kicked senseless in the latter part of last night's football Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 I thought this was a spoof. Are you kidding? That's a great piece of teaching. Have you forgotten what it was like to be a child? I was very impressed. All children should learn to acquire language this way as soon as possible. Being taught two fairly useless European languages by the time you're too old to care/absorb language properly is one of the stupidest things our school system does. It would be more useful to teach us all Cantonese at age 5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The fish Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Are you kidding? That's a great piece of teaching. Have you forgotten what it was like to be a child? I was very impressed. All children should learn to acquire language this way as soon as possible. Being taught two fairly useless European languages by the time you're too old to care/absorb language properly is one of the stupidest things our school system does. It would be more useful to teach us all Cantonese at age 5. If it were up to me, pupils would be taught very basic French, Spanish, Italian and German from age 4 in primary school, and then, in secondary school, split at random into groups of 12 (the maximum size at which language teaching is effective) and you'd teacher each group French, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, Arabic, Hindi or Russian (all schools would offer all 6 languages) All language lessons would be entirely in the target language. At GCSE level, students would have to take a language, of one of any of the 8 above, which they choose, even if they've done none of that particular language before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightwolf Posted November 19, 2010 Author Share Posted November 19, 2010 Harry potter 7 part 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan_Dare Posted November 19, 2010 Share Posted November 19, 2010 Are you kidding? That's a great piece of teaching. Have you forgotten what it was like to be a child? I was very impressed. All children should learn to acquire language this way as soon as possible. Being taught two fairly useless European languages by the time you're too old to care/absorb language properly is one of the stupidest things our school system does. It would be more useful to teach us all Cantonese at age 5. Mandarin, yo. Catonese is only spoken in one city! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goafer Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Just found out one of my photos has made it into the 2011 Scirocco Register calendar. That makes it 3 years in a row I've had one of my photos in it. Hat trick motherfucker. Link to the winners (mine is number 11) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Falcon Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Got the phone number of a very lovely lady this evening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReZourceman Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Just found out one of my photos has made it into the 2011 Scirocco Register calendar. That makes it 3 years in a row I've had one of my photos in it. Hat trick motherfucker. Link to the winners (mine is number 11) Nice one bled. 11 is also the best one. 16 Is good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 (edited) Mandarin, yo. Catonese is only spoken in one city! Perhaps he was making that point. It would be more useful to teach us a language spoken in one city at the age of 4 than F/G at the age of 11. I frequently like to play the "what is he wearing?" game, and going to a uni mostly filled with drama students makes this easy :p Anyway yesterday (as nothing has happened today) I got my mood change piece down pretty well. Really like the legs in particular, some nice arc-age! And as a result of the previous night's 'meet your mentor' do we had leftovers. Snacks and red wine all day! Got the phone number of a very lovely lady this evening Falcon Impregnate! Edited November 20, 2010 by Ashley Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightwolf Posted November 20, 2010 Author Share Posted November 20, 2010 My parents are visiting me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan_Dare Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 Perhaps he was making that point. It would be more useful to teach us a language spoken in one city at the age of 4 than F/G at the age of 11. I frequently like to play the "what is he wearing?" game, and going to a uni mostly filled with drama students makes this easy :p Anyway yesterday (as nothing has happened today) I got my mood change piece down pretty well. Really like the legs in particular, some nice arc-age! And as a result of the previous night's 'meet your mentor' do we had leftovers. Snacks and red wine all day! aha. Yes! maybe. Anyway: this coffee is really, really good. Getting up late was also lovely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goafer Posted November 20, 2010 Share Posted November 20, 2010 (edited) Went up in the attic again and found some ace shit: A TV/Radio/Cassette player combo, some LPs, my ace childhood toy dog and a camera tripod. Pretty much all of it used to belong to my Grandad. Also there was the bag which contained the motherload: My Grandads harmonica collection. It's weird, my Grandad was apparently into photography, hence the tripod. It's strange how I seem to have taken up one of his hobbies even though he died when I was five and didn't really know him too well. Feels like I got to know him a bit better today. It's a glorious tripod too. It's definitely going to get used. Edited November 20, 2010 by Goafer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 I'm back after a little time away, here's the lowdown on the best things of recent times. Wednesday: Birthday, great meal with a lovely girl. Thursday: uneventful. Friday: Work leaving do, very drunk and much good times. Saturday: Friends leaving do, more alcohol, pulled a really hot girl in glasses (my favourite type) Sunday: Family leaving do Monday: Uneventful but had drinks Tuesday: Uneventful also drinks Wednesday: Moved to San Francisco Thursday: First day in new job, got to know some cool people Friday: First drinks with new work mates Today: Date later, hopefully that will be the best bit of the day From now on I should be back on more regularly, I'm manically looking for somewhere to live though so could be sporadic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goron_3 Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Good luck on that date will! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ashley Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Good luck with the new endeavour will'. I was speaking to Jamba recently and he mentioned you had gone, didn't realise it had happened so soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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arnold Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Went up in the attic again and found some ace shit: A TV/Radio/Cassette player combo, some LPs, my ace childhood toy dog and a camera tripod. Pretty much all of it used to belong to my Grandad. Also there was the bag which contained the motherload: My Grandads harmonica collection. It's weird, my Grandad was apparently into photography, hence the tripod. It's strange how I seem to have taken up one of his hobbies even though he died when I was five and didn't really know him too well. Feels like I got to know him a bit better today. It's a glorious tripod too. It's definitely going to get used. Harmonicas and Boston, I want your day ;-; Fucking love Harmonicas don't know why but they're awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chairdriver Posted November 21, 2010 Share Posted November 21, 2010 Took MDMA last night for the first time, and haven't gone to sleep yet. Best thing that happened to me was when I finally drank some water, after about 5 hours of dying of being dehydrated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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