Today in my sannensei (3rd year--grade 9) class we were learning a very simple concept. Students were working on a worksheet and every now and then I was pausing to remind them to add an S to their plurals or a pronoun to their sentence. A hand went up. I was surprised, because the owner of the hand was a boy whose English was better than all of his peers.
"Excuse me sensei," he said in English. "Can you help me spell this word properly?"
What was the word? "Antidisestablishmentarianism".
Later he called me back again with another question. "What's the longest word in English?" he asked me. I paused for a minute to think about it, vaguely recalling something about a very specific kind of insect specialist. I told him this. He broke out into a big grin. "No," he said. He wrote a word on his notebook. "The answer is 'SMILES' he said. "Because there is a mile in the middle."
WIN.
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Ahaha! I learned the sMILE one a couple months ago!
ReplyDeleteBefore that I would have had to wiki it. The longest word is a medical term that has something to do with a lung disease :P
Awesome kid is awesome!
ReplyDeleteI totally forgot your blog >< but there's a girl I know who's in japan for few months right now and she, also write a blogspot, so It reminds me of yours!
I hope you're having a good time! And that you don't feel homesick D8