Clik here to view.
Second graders
Joan sent me a presentation with quotes from German second graders. Most of them are mondegreens that won’t work in English, but I’ve translated some of the others into English for fun: Garden gnomes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Uwe Lena: Schland u Schland
Und diese Woche lernen wir eben kein Englisch The Island Weekly is on strike. Great links for strikebreakers on Sue’s blog. May the best team win! PS: Ok, ok, Schland u Schland story in English for my...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hello Kitty arrested
What’s going on here? Where is this scene taking place? What time of day is it? Who’s being arrested? How much do you know about ‘her’? What else do you imagine about ‘her’? What do you think ’she’s’...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Proverbs by first-graders
First-graders were asked to complete well-known proverbs. This is what they came up with. (Thank you, Joan, for the giggles.) Don’t change horses… until they stop running. Strike while the… bug is...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Compare and contrast
Thanks Helmut. There’s a personal story that goes with this, as you can well imagine. My first present from my husband was a… Blog challenge! Please join in and add two similar but different pictures...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Interview with an old potato
A few years ago when I was teaching English students at the LMU Munich, my students told me how in a creative writing class, Gill Woodman, head of Sprachpraxis there, had given them a bag of potatoes...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Flula
Thanks to Flula Borg for deconstructing idioms and also for getting right in there with prejudices against Germans – and just dealing with them. I really like Flula being playful and silly with My...
View Article
