I swear I arrived in Grenoble last week, and now I have a two week holiday. I’m certainly not complaining, a few weeks without the bratty secondes suits me just fine! I decided to use the same lesson activity that I pinched from the assistant’s Dropbox folder most of the week - it seems as though I haven’t got the hang of lesson planning as of yet. I got them talking about stereotypes, which everyone (including me) seemed to find hilarious… I showed the students a video about the stereotypes that foreigners have of the French, and got them to discuss it; the usual baguette eating, wine drinking, french kissing assumptions. Then, I asked them to come up with stereotypes that they had of the British, subtly reminding them that I am of course British and will take offense to anything negative that they say.
Here’s what they came up with:
1) Ginger - apparently all Irish people are red heads, and ginger is a hilarious word?!
2) Eat bad food - if you think eating baguettes and cheese for breakfast/lunch/dinner is a balanced diet, then you have much to learn frenchies.
3) Roast beef - “we call zee british roast beeffff bcoz zhey go on zee ‘olidays without zee suncream, and zhey are alwayz burnt" fair comment.
4) Every teenager frequently takes drugs - apparently Skins is to blame.
5) Royal family - “zee Queen and ‘er corgiez! love zhem!"
6) Drink too much beer - you can never have too much…
Although some of the students are spoilt and up their own arses, they make me laugh everyday and for that reason I suppose I like them.
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