oh--are you pregnant??

my monday afternoon class is sometimes rough and sometimes really great. basically, it started out great, then a few months down the line a new kid joined and he doesn't get along well with the other kids. this has even involved major physical fighting. but i'll write about that later.
yesterday, that boy wasn't there, so there were no problems. i like this group because their english is pretty high and they are really interested in hearing about the cultural differences between americans and japanese so it's often a pretty fun class for me to teach.
halfway through the class this one boy shogo started singing this strange song. it's really catchy and it's been popular in japan since last summer. i don't know the name of it or i'd post a link for you or something. anyway, in part of the song, the singer speaks french.
shogo asked me if i could speak french.
i replied that i had studied french in high school and college, but that i had forgotten most of it. so they wanted to know if i spoke japanese.
i said that i did ok.
and of course they wanted to hear me speak. i'm not really supposed to speak japanese in the classroom, especially when the kids have such a high level of english, but this was a little different. shogo would ask me questions in english, i'd respond in japanese. they were super impressed.
shogo asked why i could speak japanese and i told him that i study and also that my boyfriend's mother and father don't speak any english at all and so i have to speak japanese to them. they get all excited that i'm telling them i have a japanese boyfriend and i tell them that we will get married next week. they didn't know "married" so i told them in japanese.
lots of ooohing and aaaahing. we start to move on when suddenly shogo says "oh....baby?!?!" and gestures to his stomach. haha. not yet, i told him.
Tags: esl, teaching, kids

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