Caught in My Scuola Media Classes

Daniela Villani, Italy

Daniela Villani teaches at Scuola Media ‘G. Cassano’ in Trecate, Italy.
E-mail: borando@libero.it

In a first year group, when asked to describe one of their teachers, a student wrote: ‘She’s got brown eyes but sometimes she’s got big red eyes!’ What better way to describe a teacher who gets angry quite easily and often shouts at them?

After having a CLIL science lesson about the skeleton, the day of the test my second year students asked me if they could play Simon Says… - one of their favourite games – in a slightly different way, so that they could revise the new vocabulary. So here is how it went: Simon says put your hands on your skull, Simon says put your hands on your rib cage, put your hands on your backbone, Simon says put your hands on your femur… and so on. I thought it was a very good idea. And it came from them!
( NBS They all did the test quite well ☺)

In a second year group, after revising the use of SOME.
Teacher: Ok, you can form different words starting with SOME… Do you know any?
Alberto: SOMETIMES.
Teacher: That’s right. Any others?
Alessandro: SOMETHING.
Christian: SAMSUNG.
(Christian wasn’t joking!)

Please check the Improving English through Humour course at Pilgrims website.