Jeopardy

Okay, so this week we played Jeopardy. I divided the kids into small groups, I gave them five categories to chose from: Grammar 1, USA, Grammar 2, English, and Random. So off we played. A few questions seemed to really stump some classes, and they gave some AMAZING answers.

done did you proud, Trebek.

My favorites:

Q: Which famous American led the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s?
Student: Was it.......Hitler?

Another class: Bush.

Q: Who is the most famous English poet?
Student: (chinese mumbling)..... uh... Victoria.
Me: Me? I am the most famous English poet?
Student: Yes!

Another class a student said: "I am."

Q: How many brothers and sister do I have?
Students: (long pause, debating)..... You just have too many.

Q: Name at least four countries that speak English.
Students: Australia, America, Italy, France
Me: Try again.
Students: Australia, America, England, India
Me: How about one more time.
Students: England, America, Australia......
Me: Who is America's neighbor?
Students: Mexico? Canada!

Q: Who first discovered America and what year?
Students: Columbus! (long pause) And 1949?

My favorite question that stumped every class was a word riddle.
 Q: A cowboy rides into a town on Friday. He stays two days and leaves on Saturday. How can this be?
They thought long and hard and just were not getting it. When I finally get to explain that cowboys ride horses, and this horse's name is Friday...oh man. Every class lost it. They'd laugh for a good while each time.

It was really hard to not be sarcastic and do some of these faces when they gave me weird answers:

They also loved to yell out the wrong answers as other teams tried to guess.
One question was "What city is the capitol of America?"
While the team was thinking, other students yelled out: Indiana! New York! Wenzhou! Basketball! Justin Bieber!

The winning group got candy or pencils. The pencils had the American Flag on them and were quite a hot commodity. That is until one observant student yelled: "Hey. These were made in China!" To which I responded: "Oh, well would you look at that."

I guess those pencils got a nice little round trip :)

"Obama" is another answer they like to say when I ask them anything. Mostly boys, figure that. 

"Did you have a good holiday?" 

"Obama, and yes."

"What do you think of this article?"

"Obama."

It takes some prodding, but I get them to say more. I like having classes full of laughter, so I don't mind if we waste some time giggling :)

This is the class mantra, haaa.

Side note: Tomorrow is my birthday, WOO WOO. Some of the other Ameson teachers near by are going to make me chocolate chip pancakes. I'm stoked. Then we are going to hit the town with more teachers, Chinese and American. So it should be a good time.

 In China when you invite someone for eating, you pay. I wanted to go eat lunch for my birthday since we have to teach on Saturday to make up for the typhoon. SOOOOOO I went to ATM, loaded up on cash, and invited a few teachers; cross your fingers I get it right and all culturally correct at the restaurant :)