tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41282661487428992322024-02-07T20:17:21.872+01:00zen kyu maestro... teacher in SpainTeaching in English, living in Spanish, what shall we learn today?jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.comBlogger92125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-10650280394345426962023-12-10T16:31:00.002+01:002023-12-10T16:31:14.400+01:00It's a Jungle Down There<p> </p><h1><span style="font-size: medium;">This is an extract from <i>Cucarachas or Cucuruchos: An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma</i> (2019) available from Amazon.</span></h1><p class="Standard"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">One of the year two
teachers is away and I’m covering. Year two are six-year-olds - dangerous
territory, as at this young age a year’s difference can mean a lot in terms of
language, logic - and civilization. The end-of-year concert is looming on next
week’s horizon like a long-planned (and long-dreaded) family get-together: will
everyone get along and have a blissful afternoon? Or will Uncle Ted get drunk
and have another row with Auntie Mabel?</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>By way of preparation (for the concert) the teacher of
the other year two class wants me to take a small group of girls from both
classes to practise their ‘flower dance’. This is the long-straw option: she’s
going to work with the majority of the children to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">invent</i> a bumble bee dance. I’m much happier putting a dozen flower
girls through their paces than I would be inventing a bumble bee dance - well, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">any</i> dance for that matter. Also, the
flower girls know their stuff, apparently, so I’m going to dress it up as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">them</i> teaching <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">me </i>the dance.</span><span lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I head over to class with my bunch
of flowers and I ask them to get into position. There’s a wee bit of ‘You must
to be there,’ and ‘No, no, eees you must to be here!’ between a tulip and a
daffodil but we get into a semblance of order without any punches being thrown
or any petals scrunched. I hit the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">play</i>
button.</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Each of us is a flower, growing in my garden, each of us is a flower,
we need the sun and rain.’</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The only problem with my ‘garden’
is that I’ve got three or four flowers swaying in the opposite direction to the
other eight or nine. It kind of leaves me paralysed, don’t miss the pun, not
wanting to go the wrong way myself.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Do we all have to go the same
way?’ I ask, having pressed the pause button - and carefully avoided using the
word ‘sway’.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Yes!’ twelve flowers roar at me
with that heavy dose of Spanish <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">claro</i>
intonation which signifies that I’ve asked a particularly dumb question and
shouldn’t really be trusted in the allotment.</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Well, which way do we go <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">first</i>?’ I ask.</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘We go the left,’ says a tall,
brown-haired girl, pointing to her right.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘No, ees must go the right <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">primero</i>,’ says a small girl with blonde
hair pulled into a tight pony-tail. She, of course, is pointing to her left.</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There’s always a problem with
lefts and rights when concert time comes around. While you stand in front of
the stage telling the children to go left - this will be the children’s right
if they’re on stage and therefore facing you. Teachers quickly learn there are
two ways to try to cope with this: you can point to your left but say ‘right’
to the children, or you can turn your back on them and point and say ‘left’.
I’ve tried both options over the years - neither of them work. If you point
left and say right, at least one clever clogs will tell you that you don’t know
what you’re doing. The result will be mayhem. If you try option two, and turn
your back on the children – the result will be mayhem. You really should know
that by now.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I don’t really want to
re-choreograph the whole dance in case the other teacher has a very good reason
for going to the right (or left) first, like not knocking some scenery (or
younger children) off the stage when it comes to showtime and there’ll be more
than a dozen of them up there. So, I ask for hands up for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">this</i> direction (expertly avoiding confusing concepts like ‘left’
and ‘right’). Then, hands up for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i>
direction. I’ve got a nine-to-three split for this direction first so we’re
going to go with that. I mean this. I hit play again.</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Each of us is a flower, growing in my garden, each of us is a flower,
we need the sun and rain.’</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>There’s a problem now with the ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">growing in my garden’</i> bit. There’s
clearly some sort of a Hawaiian theme as half the class are doing that
double-handed, sideways wavey sort of movement with wiggly hips - while most of
the others are doing a kind of Jack-and-his-beanstalk climbing mime. You’ll
forgive my lack of technical dance vocabulary, I really wouldn’t know an
arabesque from a cabbage patch, so you’ll have to make do with my wiggly hips.
A frail-looking daisy has wilted into a seated position with a scowl on her
face. I stop the music again.</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘What’s the matter?’ I ask my
sedentary bloom, feeling it best to get her back onto the trellis before
deciding whether we’re going to Hawaii or up the beanstalk.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘They do it bad!’ she sighs,
waving a dismissive hand in the direction of my weed patch.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘What? <i>All</i> of them?’ I
respond. She shrugs, giving me hope that I might be able to pull the voting
trick again.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘You have de hairs in your nose,’
says the smallest girl in the room. She’s standing right in front of me and
looking straight up so she’s obviously got a great view. Two not-quite-so-small
girls scuttle over to check out this wonder of the natural world. They nod at
each other, like the small girl has predicted showers later and they’ve just
looked out of the window and spotted dark clouds rolling in.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I mine years of teacher training
and decades of experience for a reply that will floor this little minx. ‘It’s
normal,’ I finally say. ‘Lots of adults have hairs up their noses.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘My mum, she have de hairs in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">here</i>!’ says small girl, lifting one arm
high and pointing at her armpit. ‘She cut them off!’ The three of them nod
sagely at the odd ways of the adult world.</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Shall we try the dance again?’ I
blurt, afraid that we might begin a tour of the hairy parts of the human body
if I don’t start doing my job by telling them what to do. We agree that we’ll
do the Hawaiian swing the first time through then switch to the beanstalk for
the second chorus. (This dance terminology isn’t so difficult after all.)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>We make it through the chorus and
move on to the next bit.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Sun, shine your
warmth on me; moon, cool me with your night; wind, bring the gentle rain;
earth, take my roots down deep.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Doesn’t sound difficult, does it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The appearance of the sun demands
that the flowers spread their petals wide over their heads then bring them down
to their sides. (We’ll call that one the ‘rising sun’.) The only problem with
this manoeuvre is that the classroom is a bit small for a dozen suns to rise
simultaneously, so there are a number of bonked heads and bashed petals to deal
with.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘She hit to me!’ wails a small
pansy with tears spurting into mid-air. It’s a trick I’ve never seen before and
I’m a bit transfixed by the distance she’s able to achieve from a standing
start. My shirt is already looking like it’s started raining despite twelve
suns rising in front of me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘I’m sure it was an accident,’ I
coo. ‘Shall I rub it better?’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She nods and turns off the
waterworks as I give her head a brief rub. ‘There. Better?’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 35.4pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">She nods again. I really should’ve been a doctor - or, maybe the
manager of a garden centre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sun,
shine your warmth on me; moon, cool me with your night...</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>The appearance of the moon demands
that the flowers sink gracefully to their knees while flapping their arms
slowly, Hawaiian style. I can do the arms, I’m quite good actually, but the
slow sinking to my knees ends in a sort of collapse as years of squash-playing
take their toll.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘No, no. You must to go down
slowly, slowly, s-l-o-w-l-y!’ says a very solemn-looking girl, shaking her head
and patting me on the shoulder. ‘You try again.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Two of them help me to my feet
then stand back to watch my ‘graceful’ descent. It crosses my mind that I’ve
lost control of this class. We were only meant to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">pretending</i> that I’m learning the dance, but these girls seem to
have got it into their heads that I’m a bit of a ‘special needs’ case who
requires lots of extra help. I’m beginning to fear that they might keep me in
at dinner time.</span><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘No, no!’ the three of them chorus
(rather unkindly, I feel).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Thees no ees very good. You must
to go more slowly, s-l-o-w-l-y!’ says another girl who’s joined my group of
personal trainers. ‘You do it again.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I haven’t the heart to refuse.
They’re taking it all so seriously, like they really want me to succeed but
think I’m a tap short of a full dance routine. I manage to pass my ‘sink
gracefully to my knees’ exam at the third time of asking and pray quietly for
the dinner bell, which is only 25 minutes away...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></p><p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.85pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">An extract from <b><i>Cucarachas or Cucuruchos: An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma</i></b>. Free sample chapter available <a href="https://amzn.to/2obIv5K" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></span></p><p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.85pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.85pt;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqxc2o_DHMyN13qdIviSPsxAE0iOeSUueiU8HWWtvA1DQzIrrADtUQIVAZ8ervNY0_PTDy_U4m8R9HWS6sKxaLygH_LhE9QO_KHYACgW94wp_lRgcXy2iE6EJDPhyAyETXMDJUrQW7u9MpeX_XaJRsjA5ZdVfjaiLPWuvmjp_WXN8ps06oMz9tUMgSb2_m/s680/Cover%20for%20Twitter%20Facebook.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="425" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqxc2o_DHMyN13qdIviSPsxAE0iOeSUueiU8HWWtvA1DQzIrrADtUQIVAZ8ervNY0_PTDy_U4m8R9HWS6sKxaLygH_LhE9QO_KHYACgW94wp_lRgcXy2iE6EJDPhyAyETXMDJUrQW7u9MpeX_XaJRsjA5ZdVfjaiLPWuvmjp_WXN8ps06oMz9tUMgSb2_m/w250-h400/Cover%20for%20Twitter%20Facebook.JPG" width="250" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div>jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-24620171402003556252023-05-12T20:20:00.002+02:002023-05-12T20:20:40.925+02:00A Boy Called Goat...<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> WE’VE DECIDED TO do the year 3 optional SATs. Or rather, management have decided that we’re going to do them. You might (if you’re not a teacher) want to know what SAT stands for: Standard Assessment Tasks. (‘Tests,’ if you speak English.) These ones are optional. That means you don’t have to do them.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">By the time this book is published, they might not exist any more, as they’re pretty unpopular and controversial. Sensible people have worked it out and scrapped them. They don’t do them any more in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Only in England. (Oh, and Spain.)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Our decision to do them doesn’t seem the smartest idea in the world. For a start, on average, our children are younger than English children. In England, you go into year 3, for example, if you are seven years old sometime between September 1st and August 31st the following year. Here, the dates are January 1st to December 31st. That makes a big difference. It means a third of my year 3 class would be in year 2 in the UK. Also, the third of my children who should be the oldest in my year 3 class are actually in year 4. And sitting the (not very) optional year 4 SAT. And before you say, ‘but it’s only a test,’ I’ll tell you that the ‘Teacher’s Guide’ for the English optional tests in year 3 (not maths or science, just English) runs to 81 pages. But not only is the test not designed for a third of the children we’re giving it to because they’re too young, the test isn’t designed for any of the children we’re giving it to because they’re Spanish.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I’ve already done reading tests with my class. I do one every term, and it takes about 30 minutes. The children quite enjoy it. It’s not complicated. They get a four page booklet with a load of little questions in it. The questions on the first page each show a picture followed by five words. The children have to tick the word that they think goes with the picture. So one picture might be of a tree and the five words might be, cat, door, tree, camel, space shuttle.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The next three pages have sentences instead of pictures. So, the sentence might say, ‘I went to the ____ to buy some suits,’ and the words offered might be, watch, shop, ball, bicycle, asteroid belt. So simple, a child could do it… Even a Spanish child has a fighting chance.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I remember having a new boy join my class a few years ago back in Blighty. I decided to hit him with the reading test to get a handle on his ability. I also thought I’d do a bit of an informal assessment of his ‘speaking and listening’ at the same time, so I got him to talk me through what he was doing.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I explained the game (that’s what I like to call tests), and he set to.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Tree,’ he said, looking at the first picture. ‘That’s a tree.’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘You sure?’ I asked, informally assessing for a sense-of-humour at the same time.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He looked at me as if he thought I was the sort of man his parents had warned him not to speak to. ‘Yeah! Tree!’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Can you find the word?’ I said, pointing to the choices.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He scanned them carefully, saying the words quietly to himself. ‘Cat, door, tree, tree! That’s it. Tree!’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Do you want to check the other words, in case there’s a better one?’ I suggest, helpfully. Well, you never know. He glanced at the other words, ‘camel,’ and ‘space shuttle’, gave me a withering look, and ticked ‘tree,’ with a flourish. The second picture was a house. The words offered were, book, dog, ladder, house, nuclear submarine. He didn’t hesitate. ‘House,’ he said, ticking with a dismissive flick.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He moved on apace. He was enjoying this and he was especially enjoying showing the crazy guy how smart he was. The next picture was of a letter. You could tell it’d just been posted because you could see the bottom of the door and the letterbox and two of those panels that proper doors have. There was no messing about here. This was a proper door and inside, lying on the mat, was a letter. You could even see the little stamp and a few scribbled squiggles for an address. The words offered were, letter, cup, shoe, finger, electron microscope. He didn’t even look at the words; he looked at the picture, looked at me and then without a hint that he was trying to be funny or cheeky, he said (with a resigned shake of his head), ‘It’s another bloody bill!’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That’s the way to do a reading test. Not like this one. There’s no four-page booklet to fill in here; we’ve got a seven page reading booklet, a seven-page text, a 14-page answer booklet; five pages of instructions on how to administer the tests as well as 22 (yes, 22) pages of guidance for marking. At the back of the Teacher’s Guide, there are five more pages of statistics showing you how to turn marks into levels, and how to get and what to do with age standardised scores. This had better be one hell of a good reading test.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We start with the reading booklet. I skim through the instructions in the Teacher’s Guide. I can’t take them too seriously, for two reasons. Firstly, because the test isn’t designed for children like the ones I’ve got; and secondly because I don’t really need to be told to give out the reading booklets and ask the children to open the first page.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I tell them they can start. The reading booklet is called, The Hunt for the Secret Treasure.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There are hands waving like they never expect to see me again. I pick Macarena.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘What ees hooont?’ she asks hesitantly, uncertain how to pronounce ‘Hunt’.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Now I can’t tell you that, can I Mac? If I tell you what it says then I’m doing the reading test, aren’t I? And I’m much too big to be doing a reading test.’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She’s not entirely satisfied with this but she smiles and looks back at the cover. Her hand shoots straight back up into the air.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Yes, Mac?’ I say. I can see what’s coming.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘What ees sec ret?’ She pronounces it like it’s two separate words, ‘sec’ and ‘ret’. I feel sorry for her. She’s a bright little girl who only wants to do as she’s told and I’ve given her something that’s going to be very tough. ‘Do you think I’m allowed to read it for you?’ I ask, as kindly as I can.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">She shakes her head, smiling a little nervously. Half the class have hands up.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Vicente?’ I pick at random.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘What ees… treh-ah-soo-reh?’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We’re not getting very far. ‘The hooont for the sec-ret treh-ah-soo-reh.’ I’m tempted to cut their losses. I steal another look at the guidance for English as a second language. I see that I can use gestures or drawings to help. I have a vision of me hunting around the class for a lost rubber but I know that they’ll only start trying to help me find it. I give Vicente as kindly a brush-off as I can and search for someone who’s made it past the front cover. Pablo the First is waving like his lifeboat’s sprung a leak.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Yes, Pablo.’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘She’s ees called Cabra?’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">It’s one of those moments when you don’t know whether they’ve said one word or six, in Greek or in Russian. ‘Can you repeat that, please, Pablo? There’s a lot of noise in here.’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Thees boy. She’s ees called Cabra?’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">There’s a lot of nodding around the class. Jorge is giggling furiously and pointing at the picture inside. I look over his shoulder and see the issue immediately.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This had never caused much of a problem back at home. I mean, there was a bit of silliness but they soon got over it (after I yelled at them). The two boys in the book are called Jackson and (I promise, this is straight from the Government’s mouth) Goat. Yes, Goat. A boy called Goat. G-O-A-T. Goat. Maybe it’s short for something?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The giggling around the class is now close to pandemic. They’ll know the word because they do farm animals in infants. The surprising thing is that I know that goat in Spanish is cabra (it must be something to do with the cheese we like so much) so it clicks what Pablo is asking.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Yes,’ I reply. ‘His name is Goat.’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Uproar. I can’t blame them. A boy called Goat, how daft can you get? These English! What a bunch of clowns they are! I try to calm them. I might as well ask them to make me a roast dinner. Pablo is the only one who can command their attention now. He’s a bright boy, a bit cheeky but I like him. He’s got a sense of humour which always wins me over and he’s using it now.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘You write eet!’ he says accusingly, pointing at where Goat’s name is written next to his picture, in a sort of childish scrawl so it looks for all the world like I’ve written it on the page.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘No…’ I start. But they’re all pointing at me now, shouting, ‘You write eet!’ and laughing uproariously. They’ve sussed my little joke. Aren’t I a hoot? English teacher always making the good jokes.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Except it isn’t a joke at all.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘No, I didn’t!’ I insist. ‘Look!’ I read the first line of the story for them. ‘”My name is Jackson, and my best friend is called Goat.” You see. His name is Goat.’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">They’re confused now. While I could conceivably have graffitied Goat on every picture in every one of 26 books just for a little jape, I’m hardly likely to have rewritten the whole text.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘He has goat!’ Carmen states. It’s not a question. It’s a sort of Manuel assertion. Plausible, but wrong.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘No, his name is Goat,’ I say.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">A third of the class (probably the ones who should be in year 2) are giggling merrily. Another third (including Carmen and Mac) are looking worried. They’re desperately trying to understand if this is a joke or if the boy owns a goat. They just can’t accept that he might be called Goat. The final third are losing interest. I can see the hairdressing school starting up again in the back row.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Pablo has his hand up again. He also has his cheeky grin on, which means he’s thought of something amusing to say. I could do with a break. We all could. ‘Yes, Pablo?’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘There menee boys them ees called cabra, en Inglaterra?’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">I shake my head. I’m pretty sure that Jackson’s friend is on his own. I can sense one of Pablo’s punch lines lurking around the corner. Everyone is listening.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">He’s starting to giggle now. He’s got a punch line, I’m sure. He’s just not sure if he dares and uncertain if he’ll be able. He finally gathers his wits and manages to spit it out.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">‘Your name eees cabra?’</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is enough to pop the cork. There are children lying on the floor now, crying with mirth. Lledó and Rocío are quite literally dancing with glee. I can see that Pablo asking the teacher if his name is ‘Goat’ is going to go down in the annals of their education.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And I think, ‘Well done, Pablo!’ This lesson was going nowhere and you’ve rescued it. ‘Well done, Pablo… And well done, Goat!’</span></p><p>*</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">This is an extract from <b><i>Zen Kyu Maestro: An English Teacher's Spanish Adventure</i></b>, the diary of my year teaching Spanish junior children, in English, in Spain. 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Guaranteed.<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> This is an extract from <i>Cucarachas or Cucuruchos: An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma</i> (2019) available from Amazon.</span></h1><p><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="western" lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0.28cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">Finally, finally,
finally (or,</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>
¡por fin! </i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">as
a Spaniard would say) I’ve found the Holy Grail: a fool-proof way
of keeping my class quiet. And I do mean, absolutely silent. Why
didn’t I think of this before? Why didn’t anybody tell me? It
will certainly go in my book: </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>Perfect
Primary Practice</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">.
It’s going to be an international bestseller (this silencing trick
should certainly work on children of any nationality). I could become
an advisor for Ofsted – or whatever they’re called now-a-days.
The Gestapo? I don’t know.</span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"> So,
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>What’s
the secret?</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">
I hear you cry, especially if you’re a primary-school teacher and
it’s nearing the end of the summer term and you’ve got another
riot brewing. Well, the secret is Blu-Tack, or </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>tacko-blanco
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">as
we call it around here because it’s white. Here’s what to do: at
the end of term when it’s time to clear the walls of all your
timetables; dinner menus; bus-lists; after-school-club lists;
pictures, poems or stories drawn or written by the children; and all
the other detritus that you’ve stuck up over the last year – just
pull them all down. It’ll take you three minutes. What about all
the stray blobs of Blu-Tack and torn corners of damp pages? You can’t
leave them all up there! Course you can’t. But you do. And you
watch.</span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif; font-size: large;"> Before
long a child at your desk (it’s María) will start pulling at a
stray blob while they’re telling you about their new rabbit. They
won’t be alone for long, and poor old new rabbit won’t be the
focus of their concentration for long either. María will be joined
by Paco and Rodri. Paco and Rodri will be joined by Paula and Laura;
and Luís and – and before you know what’s happened the whole
class will be engrossed in the most compulsive pass-time since the
Rubik Cube took over the world.</span></span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"> I
stand and stare (and listen) in amazement as they silently pluck and
pull at the minutest pieces of </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>tacko-blanco.
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">They
seem hypnotised by the task, showing (not telling) </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>showing</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">
each other how it comes off more easily if you use one piece of
</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>tacko-blanco</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">
in your fingers to capture the smears and blobs on the walls. They
work like very-hungry caterpillars cropping the sticky goo</span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>
</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">until
there’s not a micron left. Then they turn and stare at me, looking
slightly stunned that half-an-hour has disappeared without any of
them uttering a sound. They look almost bereft, as if they have no
idea how anything will ever capture their minds so fully ever again…</span></span></span></p>
<p lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;">
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"> </span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><i>Tacko-blanco</i></span></span><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;">:
it has magic powers.</span></span></span></p><p lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;">If you like the blog, why not read the eBooks? </span><u style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><i><b>Zen Kyu Maestro: An English Teacher's Spanish Adventure,</b></i></u><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> (2013 Monday Books) available from Amazon. </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the sequel: <i><u><b>Cucuruchos or Cucurachas? An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma</b></u></i>, 2019 eBook or paperback from Amazon.</span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two years in the life of an English teacher, teaching a class of lively Spanish seven-year-olds, in English, in Spain.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">What could possibly go wrong?</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p align="justify" style="line-height: 24px; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><p lang="en-GB" style="line-height: 200%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, serif;"></span></span></p><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; text-align: justify;"><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The detailed way Dean has described the atmosphere of this little city in Spain is magnificent.” <b>Salford University, The Salfordian.</b></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><i style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span face="">Click <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Zen-Kyu-Maestro-Teachers-Adventure-ebook/dp/B00B1I54KG" target="_blank">HERE</a> for</span> free sample chapters:</i></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><i style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></i></span></span></span></div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsELmlFG6lh1xQ0wsZGldaENQa1pD3zfma43sjXL76nATw_NDFTWfdfuN8QM58EkAuv-sJnDl7WcYslZrj2YRZt6FadqFFnTjVDcoijk1FbLwPkCXCD9_nq7gv1WtIZdOavB7czWhSF8Ft/s900/zenkyumaestroebook_cover-ebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="577" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsELmlFG6lh1xQ0wsZGldaENQa1pD3zfma43sjXL76nATw_NDFTWfdfuN8QM58EkAuv-sJnDl7WcYslZrj2YRZt6FadqFFnTjVDcoijk1FbLwPkCXCD9_nq7gv1WtIZdOavB7czWhSF8Ft/w410-h640/zenkyumaestroebook_cover-ebook.jpg" width="410" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi00h9924qKjMVaKv6lfK_Q9yz8Ji8m2nHRD8Ycw5WSnu80i3CoswKThh_J6I9fN9V-PJqUhGpS9dcaHlZyB5YmDZHQx5kzH9ZqT7diZFJpCzO6xlrDKnUQ-hG2rkXoyCI60MNLmq8QyDH-/s680/Cover+for+Twitter+Facebook.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="425" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi00h9924qKjMVaKv6lfK_Q9yz8Ji8m2nHRD8Ycw5WSnu80i3CoswKThh_J6I9fN9V-PJqUhGpS9dcaHlZyB5YmDZHQx5kzH9ZqT7diZFJpCzO6xlrDKnUQ-hG2rkXoyCI60MNLmq8QyDH-/w400-h640/Cover+for+Twitter+Facebook.JPG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><i style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><br /></i></span></span></span></div></span></div></div><br /><p></p>jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-439145685848179222021-05-06T18:35:00.000+02:002021-05-06T18:35:36.604+02:00The Perils of the Infant Playground...<p></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">This is an extract from <i>'Cucarachas or Cucuruchos: An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma', </i>a year-in-my-life teaching Spanish primary children, in English, in Spain. What could possibly go wrong? You'll find another free sample on Amazon.</span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl7viuR2c7bwR1HX4XasdhIgSYB_nQBgO5PlZOXxh40OOfUzsnjoQCDcNvM4IgZIl5vK06MGxrAnphuGYeC5LY507w-zuwZpnnflEV4EUC5BmoE3JhcWsge0WmhD4tsIBaVDTmIrPXJoax/s562/10274124_450_450_81393_0_fill_0_4d555a8df61749d8234c2032fd240f5a.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="562" data-original-width="562" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjl7viuR2c7bwR1HX4XasdhIgSYB_nQBgO5PlZOXxh40OOfUzsnjoQCDcNvM4IgZIl5vK06MGxrAnphuGYeC5LY507w-zuwZpnnflEV4EUC5BmoE3JhcWsge0WmhD4tsIBaVDTmIrPXJoax/s320/10274124_450_450_81393_0_fill_0_4d555a8df61749d8234c2032fd240f5a.jpg" /></a></span></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;">An
infant teacher’s away today so I’m doing her playtime duty. I
usually do duty in the ‘junior’ playground where footballs and
skipping ropes dominate, although there are often also a fair number
of football cards being swapped, dolls being dressed and undressed
again, tops spun and cuddly toys dismembered. I know the score in the
junior playground – well, as long as Toni hasn’t lost another
football.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> The
infant playground is a whole new dimension. Here, I’m less at ease.
Well, to be honest, I’ve not much idea what’s going on. Swarms of
ridiculously small children bumble around, bumping into each other,
like wind-up toys with pieces of their mechanisms missing. Every so
often a bumbling child will collapse onto the tarmac as the wiring
between brain and legs gets mangled somewhere near their
belly-button. It’s my ‘duty’ to help, as Miss Dolly (who’s on
duty with me) has gone to ‘powder her nose’…</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘Are
you OK?’ I try gamely.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘WAAAAAAAAHHHHH.’</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘Shall
we get you up and go and see Miss María?’</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!’</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> A
large crowd of small spectators gathers. ‘Do you know who this is?’
I ask the spectators. I might as well ask the trees. The children
look at me like I’m an exhibit in the London Dungeon: they’re
hugely interested but slightly frightened. I think it’s ‘cos I’m
a ‘man’. They don’t get many men around here. I might not come
back in a hurry.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> The
wailing subsides and damaged child sits up. There’s no blood, but a
fair bit of snot.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘Go
to the toilet and bring me some tissue,’ I order no one in
particular. They ignore me. Actually, one of them is stroking my
head. I have quite a tight crop so I guess it might feel like a
hedgehog. I turn to face the child who’s stroking me. It’s a boy.
He smiles although he doesn’t have many teeth. He looks at me like
I am a hedgehog, or any other dumb animal who’ll let you stroke
them for as long as you like. He cocks his head to one side like he’s
pitying my inability to sort things out. I smile back at him. Child
on floor suddenly gets up and staggers away across the playground
into the melee. He’s like a mini-Frankenstein fresh off the
operating table stumbling blindly into everything in his meandering
path. Now I’m left on the ground with a crowd of ten or fifteen
children staring at me. Two of them are now stroking my head. One of
them asks me a question. I can tell it’s a question from the
intonation and the fact that they’re pointing at my head. The
language they’re using, however, is a mystery. A small girl with
curly hair has all her fingers in her mouth, like she thinks she’s
sucking a giant lolly; I hope she’s not planning on stroking my
head in the near future.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Suddenly
two or three start to point. And laugh. Before I can say, ‘What the
hell are you laughing at?’ they’ve lost all interest in me and
are starting to walk behind me. I turn around and see my career
disappear.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Behind
me is the entrance to the school. It’s sealed by a metal-barred
gate, about four-metres wide and two-metres high. Whenever someone
wants to enter the school they buzz through to the office who’ll
open the gate. The gate is opening now, sliding silently to the left,
as a delivery truck waits outside with hazards flashing and engine
rumbling. My problem is that six or seven children have climbed onto
the gate and are enjoying a slow ride – towards a quite
nasty-looking mechanism which includes some pretty large metal cogs
and gears. It’s a bit like a James Bond film where James Bond is
tied to a board which is moving towards a circular saw spinning at
great speed. The children who have been watching (and stroking) me
are now pelting towards the gate to join in the relatively-low jinks.
<i>Bloody hell!</i></span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span> ‘Get
off that gate!’ I yell, wondering if any of them are capable of
such a feat without risking dislocated joints or broken bones. The
gate isn’t moving that quickly but, as I’ve already seen, these
kids can fall over if a cloud passes overhead. ‘Get off!’ I yell
again, to equal effect (none). I rush over to the site of
international incident involving possible death or maiming of dozens
of small children under the care of J.J.Dean, and start plucking
children off the gate from the side nearest the cogs and gears. While
I’m doing this I shout at the other children who are approaching me
on the gate as it continues it’s journey. The children are having a
wonderful time, smiling and screaming back at me; they must think I’m
just joining in the ballyhoo. One boy has a particularly tight grip
on the bars. I have to peel his fingers off before setting him down
on the ground and reaching for the next laughing child who is inches
from death but doesn’t give a monkey’s. Within seconds there’s
another boy with an equally strong grip – until I notice that it’s
the same boy who’s just found another space on the gate and has
jumped back on. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘Again!’
he shouts, nodding towards his fingers which are turning white with
the effort.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I’m
finally saved when the gate stops, fully open. I breathe a long sigh
before noticing my next problem. Luckily, the driver isn’t planning
to drive his truck into the playground (I wouldn’t have bet against
it), but what he is going to do is carry his packet to the office
while the office staff leave the gate open until he returns. I stand
in the middle of the entrance facing into the playground. A dozen
children, twenty now, maybe thirty, line up facing me, staring beyond
me into the orange groves on the other side of the road. I honestly
can’t see what they’re staring at, they come in and out of this
gate every day, it’s not like I’ve opened Narnia’s wardrobe for
them to look into.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> A
girl points. I look around. There’s a dog.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Wild
dogs – well, OK, strays – are quite common around here. This one
is a brown 57 who doesn’t look dangerous. No, it’s worse. Much
worse. He looks playful. His head is cocked to one side, a bit like
the little boy who was stroking me five minutes ago when my problems
couldn’t possibly get any worse. The dog takes a tentative step
towards me. Oh god!</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘Get
away!’ I say, ridiculously in English. <i>‘¡Vete!’</i> I try,
which I’m pretty sure means <i>get outa here you mangy mongrel</i>.
He prances towards me like I want him to play. ‘Goo on! Get ouda
here!’ He jinks past me and is in.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Utter
bedlam. Complete chaos. Imagine aliens invade a busy IKEA firing
lasers. Kids are screaming in all directions, bumping and bashing
into the trees and each other, tripping over balls and ants. Within
seconds there are half a dozen on the floor nursing cut knees and
god-knows what else. I’m powerless to do anything except guard the
entrance to make sure none of them run out onto the road. Where the
hell is Miss Dolly?</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> I
spot the van driver coming back across the playground looking bemused
at the carnage that is underway.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> ‘<i>Perro</i>!’
(dog) I say as he passes me, like this will explain <i>everything</i>.
He raises his head in an ‘Oh, right,’ sort of expression. Then he
puts his fingers in his mouth and whistles the loudest whistle I’ve
ever heard. The dog appears from the mayhem and pelts towards him
provoking another epidemic of tripping and bumping into each other.
Driver gives me a little salute as he climbs into his cab. The gate
starts to close.</span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Dolly
saunters out as the bell goes and the gate clicks shut. She’s not
exactly hurrying to begin with but her pace slows as she takes in the
battlefield. There are children hobbling towards her pointing at
their grazed knees and elbows and wailing like zombies. She looks at
me. Her look says <i>I leave you </i><i>alone </i><i>for five
minutes…</i></span></span></p>
<p align="justify" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> Next
time they’re looking for some sucker to do duty in the infant
playground? I’ve got a dentist’s appointment for root canal.</span></span></p><p align="justify" style="font-style: normal; line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;">If you like the blog, why not read the eBooks? </span><u style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><i><b>Zen Kyu Maestro: An English Teacher's Spanish Adventure,</b></i></u><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> (Monday Books) available from Amazon. </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the sequel: <i><u><b>Cucuruchos or Cucurachas? An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma</b></u></i>, eBook or paperback from Amazon.</span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two years in the life of an English teacher, teaching a class of lively Spanish seven-year-olds, in English, in Spain.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">What could possibly go wrong?</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><p align="justify" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh_Ns4_wgNfX0vUj_gdXNeuO7gmc49iDzg8oj86o0uRB58XTjabmxUblAGd12dIDD2C128-lnnIIIUa5HxJLrNNOIdkCaRMy5cjpUKtOmum6U84XYQx42UGjLPAqGVpD0oPaTmRgDltil9/s538/Yo+me+vacuno.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="370" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh_Ns4_wgNfX0vUj_gdXNeuO7gmc49iDzg8oj86o0uRB58XTjabmxUblAGd12dIDD2C128-lnnIIIUa5HxJLrNNOIdkCaRMy5cjpUKtOmum6U84XYQx42UGjLPAqGVpD0oPaTmRgDltil9/w440-h640/Yo+me+vacuno.jpg" width="440" /></a></div><br /><p><a href="https://youtu.be/w1OdGGcNkDY" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Vera Enfermera</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/fAG747TNmi0" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Juan Jubilado</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/-gHdBUfzAiQ" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;">Sonía Viróloga</span></a></p><p><br /></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;">If you like the blog, why not read the eBooks? </span><u style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><i><b>Zen Kyu Maestro: An English Teacher's Spanish Adventure,</b></i></u><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> (Monday Books) available from Amazon. </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the sequel: <i><u><b>Cucuruchos or Cucurachas? An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma</b></u></i>, eBook or paperback from Amazon.</span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two years in the life of an English teacher, teaching a class of lively Spanish seven-year-olds, in English, in Spain.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">What could possibly go wrong?</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; text-align: justify;"><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The detailed way Dean has described the atmosphere of this little city in Spain is magnificent.” <b>Salford University, The Salfordian.</b></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: center;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><i style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif;"><span face="">Click below for</span> free sample chapters:</i></span></span></span></div><p style="font-size: medium; text-align: left;"></p><p class="Textbody" style="font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: red;"><i> <a href="https://amzn.to/2ldiIZK" target="_blank">Zen Kyu Maestro</a> Cucarachas <a href="https://amzn.to/2obIv5K" target="_blank">eBook</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/2nvYgUV" target="_blank">paperback</a></i></span></span></span></span></span></p></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm;"><span style="font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0_JhIg1cp84fVa1XKtnammvXxkIPpmXuwguUHbFES_xwtGPbbyRfDP0-toKhzIv1FNKcf7BDHjpZ0e6-XNjxX9-Dt4DnPHbXWJEFIyC0Xcxw5CSLhmtfui7pYqwQMAV6DPOAyND-KrteL/s900/zenkyumaestroebook_cover-ebook.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="577" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0_JhIg1cp84fVa1XKtnammvXxkIPpmXuwguUHbFES_xwtGPbbyRfDP0-toKhzIv1FNKcf7BDHjpZ0e6-XNjxX9-Dt4DnPHbXWJEFIyC0Xcxw5CSLhmtfui7pYqwQMAV6DPOAyND-KrteL/s320/zenkyumaestroebook_cover-ebook.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5uQxH8IdNQkVxuPH5NkGZq0D9zFz09fM4n6NXdaLRxoBbBdE9RfpgvzQpLEc93hUJuJPIGZTe_19c3VVy3w4o_XFRMBje3_GGx6Ia_84qy6V0Y_SLXEgC_hSR3leQUpwh8ruaRhqOfifz/s680/Cover+for+Twitter+Facebook.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="425" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5uQxH8IdNQkVxuPH5NkGZq0D9zFz09fM4n6NXdaLRxoBbBdE9RfpgvzQpLEc93hUJuJPIGZTe_19c3VVy3w4o_XFRMBje3_GGx6Ia_84qy6V0Y_SLXEgC_hSR3leQUpwh8ruaRhqOfifz/s320/Cover+for+Twitter+Facebook.JPG" /></a></div><br /><br /><b><br /></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><p><br /></p>jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-44950447207381914232021-04-24T18:32:00.002+02:002022-10-12T14:52:53.585+02:00What About All Those Long Holidays...?<p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.85pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">An extract from <b><i>Cucarachas or Cucuruchos: An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma</i></b>. Free sample chapter available <a href="https://amzn.to/2obIv5K" target="_blank">HERE</a></span></span></p><p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.85pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p><p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.85pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9vnJt6MwvvVdDME4nxjqtUVXKa-Bp5IRQ982seaiTPFz3_puHzPpylQLjpBRnpGj8HQWfGo_uTiQP6KBqReL_YwmwiauGGI72rPszGXtTECDCMso8Iezud5wcDKlSvzBD3-FFwrx0c4zu/s680/Cover+for+Twitter+Facebook.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="425" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9vnJt6MwvvVdDME4nxjqtUVXKa-Bp5IRQ982seaiTPFz3_puHzPpylQLjpBRnpGj8HQWfGo_uTiQP6KBqReL_YwmwiauGGI72rPszGXtTECDCMso8Iezud5wcDKlSvzBD3-FFwrx0c4zu/s320/Cover+for+Twitter+Facebook.JPG" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36.85pt;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB">TEACHING HAS ITS DOWNSIDES: one of the biggest always
occurs when people find out what you do. Very few blurt it out immediately.
They beat about the bush, asking you which subject you teach, or which age
group; they tell stories about teachers they remember (for good or bad); they
disclose their favourite subjects, the ones they were good at - and they often
want you to know the ones they hated (it's usually PE); they complain about the
amount of homework they got (too much) and the amount their own children get
(not nearly enough).</span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><span style="font-size: large;">But if you're a teacher, you know this is all
preliminary. The <i>hors d'oeuvre</i> before the main course, the warm-up
before the kick-off, the trailer before the feature. You know what they're
going to say, at some point in the conversation (nearly always just after
you've expressed a slight dissatisfaction about some educational issue or
other): they give you a curt little nod of the head and a slightly accusatory
fixing of the eyes before finally saying what they’ve wanted to say since they
first discovered you were a teacher.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><span style="font-size: large;">'Ah, but what about all those long holidays?'<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><span style="font-size: large;">They usually cross their arms at this point, like
they’ve caught you telling porkies, or filching a couple of extra pencils from
the stock cupboard. They might look sideways at another member of the group and
nod another curt little nod like they’ve discovered a new prime number or
solved the Irish backstop problem. They wait for me to put up a defence, to say
that we need to recover from a full-on job, re-charge our batteries, prepare
next year's materials. This is all true. But it's never the response I give.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="text-align: justify; text-indent: 36pt;"><span face=""Calibri",sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><span style="font-size: large;">Instead, I shake my head slightly wistfully, like I've
just taken the first lick of a rum'n'raisin ice-cream, then I sigh a little
sigh and quietly say, 'Yeah, fantastic. Thirteen weeks... How much holiday do you get...?'<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="text-indent: 36pt;">They usually change the subject after that.</span> </span></p>jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-78446421041061373352021-04-03T11:34:00.009+02:002021-04-03T11:46:19.000+02:00Hey, Macarena - the Only Way to Teach the Times Tables...<h2 style="text-align: justify;"><b> This is an extract from <i>Zen Kyu Maestro: An English Teacher's Spanish Adventure,</i> Monday Books, 2013, available from Amazon.</b></h2><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwdmFdF87-QgFeEugRk3FMz7d916CyF-LvTbDZWbYVuQOHjwfFvZ3sxY0HPhQh6oYk67fNMBEszNBn8pggAjLBrjVv8tZ25uhjmHdQaT1W-CJ3bvjShB0idygZv_DIPVZYolZ5fxOUGnZd/s281/mac1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="179" data-original-width="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwdmFdF87-QgFeEugRk3FMz7d916CyF-LvTbDZWbYVuQOHjwfFvZ3sxY0HPhQh6oYk67fNMBEszNBn8pggAjLBrjVv8tZ25uhjmHdQaT1W-CJ3bvjShB0idygZv_DIPVZYolZ5fxOUGnZd/s0/mac1.jpg" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><p><br /></p><p></p><p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">I
CLICK THE ‘PLAY’ button on my laptop and my maths lesson is
shattered by the chugging drumbeat and incessant bass line of an MP3
file I downloaded a couple of years previously. It’s a lesson idea
I tried without a lot of success a few times back in the UK. I have
an inkling that I might have more luck here.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>A
mass of heads jolt upright in startled disbelief as the tune gathers
momentum. Pablo (the First) is the first to gather his wits. He joins
in with the drumbeat using the flats of his palms on the desktop. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Carmen,
Macarena and María Two are swaying rhythmically in their seats and
(surprisingly quickly) synchronising a sort of hand-jive which takes
them left, then right, then forwards, then backwards (but not yet out
of their chairs). </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>I’m
sitting at my desk pretending to be engrossed in the weekly spelling
test results. The vast majority of the class are still looking
stunned, thinking maybe that I’ve accidentally hit the wrong key on
my laptop while simultaneously going deaf. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">The
vocal line starts, accompanied in perfect timing by at least a dozen
of my more brazen flock, many of whom also send their chairs
skittering backwards and jump to their feet, arms flapping in unison,
hips swaying and gyrating in time.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>My
numeracy lesson begins. We’re (well, they’re) dancing the
</span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Macarena</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>.
Mac herself is blushing slightly as a dozen fingers point as they
sing the chorus: ‘Hey, Macarena!’ But she’s safely flanked by
Carmen and María Two so she dances on undeterred, her Latin blood
obviously too strong to submit to any minor embarrassment.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS0t2xNy3aFqEEzNtuJ4CDqzCwfUahKp8ZApZkiyMV0UOjI94eZumu-rryenl0r_ppZJ9e_XKnbS0oKhFt4E4KtMkcXIfgbZjauAh4EkwuM1E_6fmxQtfdiTHwZU3Y6c2KpFpgZxmljHx2/s300/mac5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjS0t2xNy3aFqEEzNtuJ4CDqzCwfUahKp8ZApZkiyMV0UOjI94eZumu-rryenl0r_ppZJ9e_XKnbS0oKhFt4E4KtMkcXIfgbZjauAh4EkwuM1E_6fmxQtfdiTHwZU3Y6c2KpFpgZxmljHx2/w400-h224/mac5.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /></span></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>I
don’t really know the moves of the </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Macarena</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>.
It wasn’t my era, I was much more of a </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Le
Freak</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>
man. But it’s not difficult to copy the movements ever so mutedly,
as I continue to puzzle over a dozen permutations of the spelling of
‘wait’. There is near uproar. Pablo (the First) redoubles the
enthusiasm of his hip-swinging, possibly afraid that I might be about
to steal his limelight. This encourages most of the others to join in
now, with the notable exception of Jake.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Jake
is nailed rigidly to his seat with a look of horror chiselled into
his features. He’s probably never seen a teacher dance the </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Macarena</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>
before, seated or otherwise. Not at the start of a maths lesson,
anyway.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">The
song reaches its conclusion. Pandemonium. They’re hopping and
squealing and hugging each other. ‘¡Otra! ¡Otra!’ (again,
again) they chant.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>If…’
I bellow, my hands up in the air, trying to regain the smallest
modicum of control over this seething mass of junior excitement.
‘I’ll play it again if…’</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Yes,
yes, OK, vale!’</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘…<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>if
I can teach you some new words. Very easy words.’</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Vale,
OK!’</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Right!
Now watch and listen.’ I put my hands behind my ears and mime being
unable to hear anything. This isn’t brilliant acting, the noise
would drown out The Who jamming in the corner. Their furious shushing
for quiet increases the volume by 10% and showers me with spittle,
but they finally quieten. I grab a marker and scribble across the
board, ‘3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 33, 36, Hey MACARENA!’
Then I hit the play button and they burst into life.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>I
quickly carve my way through the disco and crouch down in front of
Jake. It’s clear this is never going to be his style. He’s got
about as much Latin blood in him as a Pukka Pie. I could just about
imagine him singing and dancing if Sheffield Wednesday were to win
the Champions League, but we’d have a long wait for that. </span></span>
</span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Listen,
Jake,’ I plead. ‘I need someone who’s brilliant at maths!’
He’s not, but that’s not the point. ‘Could you point at the
numbers on the board as I sing them? This lot are never going to get
it right if you don’t help me.’ I flick my eyes towards his
gyrating classmates with a look that says, ‘Look, they’re crazy.
I can’t manage them on my own!’</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>I
no ’av to dance?’ he checks.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>No,
you don’t have to dance,’ I reply.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Vale!’
he says, making disturbingly better progress with Spanish than with
his English.</span></span></span></p><p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrXG6kK-JC3j7rvj2hlIQmZUmPRcDbO7fkUJg-rrpkejDwcLuY9oDz1JN55JGGn7izH1vB5fhe3WWPg8VefshUSyCLBC6244hjcbE0bI6hRdvueHtv3mWsL5zoCxjXWSf1Lv8z9btVN4B5/s300/mac2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrXG6kK-JC3j7rvj2hlIQmZUmPRcDbO7fkUJg-rrpkejDwcLuY9oDz1JN55JGGn7izH1vB5fhe3WWPg8VefshUSyCLBC6244hjcbE0bI6hRdvueHtv3mWsL5zoCxjXWSf1Lv8z9btVN4B5/s0/mac2.jpg" /></a></div><br /><p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><br /></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">We
just about make it into position as the vocals start and I boom out
the three-times table, drowning out whatever it is the singers are
singing and nailing each number to the incessant beat that the hand
(and hip) movements follow. Jake tries gamely to keep up with his
pointing duties but he’s only made it as far as ‘18’ as the
rest of us are bellowing, ‘Hey Macarena!’ and doing that neat
little two-footed jump with 90 degree turn included. Luckily, Pablo
(the First) is a whizz at maths, so he picks it up instantaneously.
Carmen, Mac and María Two are also pretty sharp cookies, so I’ve
soon got the three-times table drowning out anyone who is still
trying to sing the original lyrics.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>We
reach the end and again, I have to use every trick I know (short of a
large tin of Quality Street) to get them off cloud </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>nueve</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>
and ready to listen. I’ve got an unforeseen problem when we get to
21. All the numbers before 21 have one or two syllables, perfect to
fit in with the beat of the song; 21, sadly, has three syllables and
the ones who know their three times tables this far can’t say it
quickly enough for them to be ready to say ‘24’ on time, which is
another three syllables. By the time we get to 27, a four-syllable
number, they are so far off the pace that it’s degenerating into a
fine solo performance (guess who) until we reach the punch line of
‘Hey Macarena’ when everyone joins in lustily, including, I’ve
noticed with some surprise and pleasure, Jake.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">I
pray that Ofsted aren’t in the vicinity, as I do a quick
demonstration of how boys who were brought up in Cricklewood learned
how to say ‘Twenny’, using only one syllable, instead of
‘twenty’, using two. Before long I’m chanting, ‘Twenny-one,
twenny-four, twenny-sevn,’ at them and they’re parroting them
back perfectly using only two syllables for each. I do a similar,
slight adjustment to 33 and 36 and we’re off and running again.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">They
barely miss a beat, although I manage to crash a verse by putting my
hands on my hips when I should have put them on my head, but they
give me pitying, raised eyes and we regain our composure and carry on
regardless.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>¡Otra!’
they yell.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>It’s
too easy,’ I yell back as I rub the 6, 12 and 18 off the board.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Eeeeesss
EEEEEEEEEEZZZZZZZZEEEEEE!’ they respond and we start again.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">It’s
playtime but they don’t want to go out. Even more remarkable, it’s
snack-time and they’re not interested.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>OK,
OK,’ I concede, feigning great reluctance, ‘We’ll do it again
tomorrow, but only if you can sing it without any numbers written on
the board!’ I clean the board theatrically. ‘Tomorrow, no numbers
on the board!’ I repeat, for those who seem slightly to have lost
the drift.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>Bedlam.
‘¡We </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>do</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>
eeet!’ they yell, leaping up and down and hugging each other.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">I
escape to the staffroom for a saline drip and return to the class to
find a huddle of a dozen or so around a table. I edge closer to wig
what they’re saying.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Macarena
(appropriately) seems to be in charge. ‘Next ees 24 but you say
twenny-four, den ees 27 and you say twenny-sev’n quickly, quickly,
quickly!’</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Scraps
of paper are being scribbled on hurriedly. I mosey across.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>What’s
all this?’ I bellow, nearly sending Carmen into Earth orbit.
‘That’s cheating! You can’t take it home and practise!’</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">
‘<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>You
no say we no can!’ Pablo (the First) responds dismissively. If I’ve
not said they no can then I guess I’ve got no argument. I bluster
on a bit but they quickly see that I’m not really going to try to
stop them.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">Then
I notice that even Jake has a damp scrap clutched in his palm. And as
they head for the playground, humming the tune and swinging their
hips, even he makes a rather stiff-limbed attempt to join in.</span></span></p><p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-indent: 1.27cm;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwmOezp1BHCNWSSh3g67FICUtXrfAK35BSDyfd1-cR4GacaWH9UrYKFDTImtAhfY1MkneoEX_u2cDzByPQctCYkKR-Vt4GBycG03Zzha-i8uusXFhbXz3anIEmAYUAshKzdfFMp7b81ubF/s300/mac4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwmOezp1BHCNWSSh3g67FICUtXrfAK35BSDyfd1-cR4GacaWH9UrYKFDTImtAhfY1MkneoEX_u2cDzByPQctCYkKR-Vt4GBycG03Zzha-i8uusXFhbXz3anIEmAYUAshKzdfFMp7b81ubF/w400-h224/mac4.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">It
might not always be clear what I’m teaching them, but it’s
becoming obvious what they’re teaching me (and Jake). They have
such energy, such enthusiasm, they love to be involved. Linda and I
are seriously doubting whether we’ll stick it out here for two
years, but at moments like this I feel sure I’ll want to. They
might have been learning the three times table; I’ve been learning
how to teach, all over again.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: large;">I
have used this lesson before, but never with such a response. It
makes me think that, as well as needing a lot of spoken work, these
children really do respond well to a more active style of learning. A
second year would be an opportunity for me to develop things more in
that direction.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>I
hear the three-times-table </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Macarena</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>
starting up in the playground, so I look out of the window. A dozen
of them are in two lines (Macarena out front) swinging and jerking in
perfect time. Well, nearly perfect time. For in the back row, at the
far end, moving a split second after all the rest, is Jake. (He even
seems to be having a good stab at the words!)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="line-height: 150%; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify; text-indent: 1.27cm;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>A
note on copyright. While I’d love to be able to pretend that the
idea for the </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Macarena</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>
Times Tables lesson was mine, sadly I can’t. There are very few
primary lessons with a copyright attached. I saw this lesson idea in
the </span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span><i>Times
Educational Supplement</i></span></span><span face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span>
around about 2004 as a suggestion sent in by someone, somewhere.
Whoever you are, thank you – and if you haven’t already had the
chance, I hope one day you’ll be able to teach it to a class of
Spanish children. But a word of warning… Make sure you fully warm
up the muscles around your hips before you start! </span></span></span>
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a crowd surrounding Manuel as he bustles into the classroom this morning.
What’s he got today? As usual, all the excited babble is in Spanish. I ease
myself into a position to see above the bobbing heads. It’s a jam jar full of
water. There’s something lurking at the bottom.</span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘What have you got?’ I ask in a
sing-song, Blue-Petery, early-in-the-day voice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Manuel holds the jar aloft and
shrugs. ‘I no no weet een eengleesh,’ he says, slightly crestfallen.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A nuclear weapon of noise explodes
around him as everybody gives a view of what’s in Manuel’s treasure jar.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘OK, OK,’ I say, in a slightly less
Blue-Petery tone. ‘Let me have a look.’ It’s some kind of mollusc but I’ve no
clue whether they’re cockles or mussels. I’ve some doubt whether they’re
alive-alive-oh, given that Manuel’s had them captive for most of the weekend.
Half a dozen of them are lurking in the murk at the bottom of the jar, each
about the size of a butter bean.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I scan my mob for someone who might
just have an edge over the others in matters <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">mariscos</i>. It’s not promising. I can hear lots of muttered
suggestions, all of them muttered with 101% certainty, all of them different. I
have to admit I’m not a big seafood eater, nor an eater of big seafood, so
although I recognise many of the Spanish words, I couldn’t actually translate
any of them into English.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘You see ees <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">lengua</i>?’ Manuel points excitedly at a creamy-coloured tongue
probing out from one that is still just about alive-alive-oh after all.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Very nice,’ I say. ‘Where did you
get them?’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">En
la playa</i>.’</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘In English, please.’ He must know
this.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Da bitch!’ he says, proudly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Yes, the beach. Were they in the sea?’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>He looks confused. ‘Dey in da
warder.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘In the sea.’ I emphasise ‘sea’ but
Manuel ignores me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘My dad he <i>coger</i> dem but my
mum she say you poot hems back but my dad he say ees OK I wanna <i>traer</i>
thems to see you and my mum she <i>gritar</i> when all de warder it go on the <i>silla</i>
in <i>coche</i>.’ I manage to turn that lot into news that there was a family
row over whether he could bring them into school which reached a peak when
Manuel spilled some of the water in the car...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Sounds like you had a lovely day
out,’ I say, and notice the aptly named Mar (which means ‘sea’) smirking. She
can have a level 4 for comprehension at the end of the year.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘I’ll tell you what I’m going to
do,’ I announce, before Manuel has a chance to let us all know whether the row
escalated later on when he probably emptied them all out onto the living room
carpet. ‘Miss Macarena knows a lot about these things so I’m just going to pop
next door and ask her while you change your reading books.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Everyone nods that Miss Macarena is
a world expert on marine-life except Alma, who’s got her hand up and a worried
look on her face. ‘What ees “pop”?’ she asks with a seriousness that is not
normal for a seven-year-old.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Ummm, it means “go”,’ I say, hoping
fervently that she doesn’t ask why...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almeja</i>,’<i> la señorita</i> Macarena says with calm certainty.
Maybe she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">is</i> a world expert on
marine-life after all. ‘Bu- I no no weet een English.’</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘No matter,’ I say, pudging my phone
with my index finger. ‘I’ve got a translator on this... clam! OK, thanks.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Kwam?’ <i>la señorita </i>Mac says,
looking for confirmation. I show her the screen and say, <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Claaam,’ as clearly as I can. I can hear a
bit of ‘noise’ from next door...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Right! I’ve got it,’ I bellow above
the din as I stride back into my room. There’s no blood evident and no-one’s
crying so I breeze on. ‘Come and sit down for the register and we can have a
little talk about Manuel’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almejas</i>,
his <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>clams</u></i>!’</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>A dozen permutations of the word
‘clam’ ring out as the children settle down on the floor. Pablo and Paco are
arguing about which of them said ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almeja</i>’
first. I fire up my (non-interactive) whiteboard and pop- sorry, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">put</i> ‘<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almeja</i>’
into wordreference.com. ‘Come and tell us about your <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>clams</u></i>!’ I beckon to Manuel who, as always, is thrilled to
have a chance to chat to a willing audience.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I carefully steer him around the
family row, which evidently <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">did</i>
escalate when Manuel dropped one clam into his granny’s lap when they went for <i>paella</i>
after their morning on da bitch. With a little prompting he manages to use
words like ‘bucket’ and ‘paddle’ to describe the collecting process and the
children have loads of suggestions about the best ways to cook them. Then I
spot Alma with her hand up and a worried look on her face.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Yes, Alma,’ I say.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Ees cat?’ she asks, deadpan.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>My brain goes on strike. I try to
form my face into an ‘appropriate’ expression as I stare silently at her but
the muscles have all gone into spasm.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Ees pussy cat?’ she continues, and
I wonder if I should speak to her parents as soon as I’ve got some sensation
back into my lips. It’s on the tip of my tongue to ask her why she’s asking
such (bizarre) questions but that would only invite meltdown.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘It’s a clam,’ I say, as kindly as I
can.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She nods, then puts her hand up
again. I give her the nod.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘What ees “vah-<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hee</i></b>-na”?’ she asks.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Vah-<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hee</i></b>-na?’ I repeat.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She nods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Is that English?’ I ask. ‘Or
Spanish?’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Ees English,’ she says, quietly.
‘And “fanny”?’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I feel my lower jaw dislocating from
its mountings and bouncing a couple of times on my chest. She’s said it so
clearly and perfectly, even stressing the first syllable as you do. Whenever
you say it. If ever you say it... <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><u>Fan</u></i>-ny.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Wha- I, er, ummm, where did you
hear <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">that</i>,’ I ask, trying to sound
nonchalant, like she’s asked me what ‘horse’ means, or ‘frog’.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘I read it,’ she says.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Where?’ I venture.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>She points. At my whiteboard. For
some spiteful reason my brain sends a cold shiver down my neck as I turn and
look at word reference’s translation of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almeja</i>
into clam. It’s a noun feminine, I see immediately, although I could have
guessed that from the ‘a’ on the end. Then I notice a second translation
underneath. This one is also a noun feminine, but crucially, it’s also
colloquial. And vulgar.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Vagina.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Jesus Christ!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Vah-<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hee</i></b>-na!’ Manuel rolls it
around his vocal chords. And, as I’ve taught them to do with new words, they
all start saying it with varying intonations.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Ees vah-<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">hee</i></b>-na, or vah-<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">gee</i></b>-na?’
Pepa asks, and I regret bitterly having spent so much time showing them how an
English ‘g’ makes a different sound in a word such as ‘got’ as opposed to
‘gee-gee’.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Wayne, my one British kid, has his
hand up and I know for a fact he wants to tell everyone that an English ‘i’
rarely makes the Spanish ‘eee’ sound! From the evil glint in his eye I have a
nasty suspicion that he also wants to provide us with a definition. But before
I get the chance to shush him I notice the next translation of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almeja</i>. It’s ‘offensive’ apparently, in
the UK at least.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Fanny.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>For some reason I can’t quite
fathom, this seems to be one of the few English words that Spanish kids can
pronounce perfectly.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Fanny,’ Manuel says inquisitively,
as if he’s trying to remember it so he can tell his dad (who’s also learning
English) a new word this afternoon when he gets home. ‘What ees fanny?’ <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>I pray <i>la directora</i> doesn’t
wander in to collect the register which I haven’t even started.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Ees animal?’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Ees pussy,’ Alma says with great
authority, pointing at the next translation. ‘Nice pussy.’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Then, I take one more glance at the
list of translations for the Spanish word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">almeja</i>
and I see my career flash before my eyes, screaming wildly, and shouting ‘See
you next Tuesday...’ The heat-induced sweat dribbling down my back is suddenly
engulfed by a tsunami of the shock and stress-induced variety. I slam the
laptop lid shut and yank the VGA lead out with a force that could move a
fully-laden Jumbo jet along the runway at Heathrow.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘What ees cu-‘ Alma starts, but I
cut her dead.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘I’ve got a wonderful surprise!’ I
blurt, unsure of what I’m going to say next, but certain that it has to grab
her attention away from what she might just have read on my whiteboard. <span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Ummmmm. We’re going to........ ummm, go out
side- and- yes, have an <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">extra playtime</i>!’
I say the last two words with huge enthusiasm, like I’ve got a swimming pool
full of ice-cream ready for them to dive into. This seems to do the trick;
there is a monstrous roar of junior delight and a slight diminishing in the
flow of sweat squirting out of my pores.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>As I lead them out, dancing and
hugging each other, I feel a tug on my shirt. It’s Alma. She has a worried look
on her face.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘What ees...’ she begins.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Why don’t you bring a skipping
rope?’ I offer. I know she loves skipping. ‘We could play that game with the
months when you have to jump in on your birthday?’ I know they all love that
one. Alma looks torn. The birthday months skipping game, or that last ‘extra’
translation that she wants explained...<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Tell you what, I’ll skip first,’ I
offer.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Standard" style="text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Oh yes, Meesa Dee, you skeep too-‘
a whole gang of them start bellowing. And Alma is caught up with childish
delight for something completely insignificant, all her thoughts about learning
new words are erased, and my career survives a brush with Manuel’s clams...<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="Standard" style="text-autospace: none;"><span style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><i>An extract from <b>Cucarachas or Cucuruchos: An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma</b>, eBook or paperback available from AMAZON. Click on the cover below for another free extract or to purchase.</i></span></p><p class="Standard" style="text-autospace: none;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Cucarachas-Cucuruchos-English-Teachers-Spanish-ebook/dp/B07Y7GG23Q" imageanchor="1" style="display: inline !important; padding: 1em 0px;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="425" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkhaKDuVTV4aG7mArUTqYAUiUNVsdydaoSo2iMKCUYlBNKclBIxwwwZXnJRNnd043CQ4m5EErWZGkBLojVm-w0IFQ7VpRKmb4U76I8CbqNtmQ8JymtRIMW7v9scyxWQ_d6VhBJs1wtoCwI/w164-h262/Cover+for+Twitter+Facebook.JPG" width="164" /></a></p><p class="Standard" style="text-autospace: none;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: ES;"><br /></span></p>jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-53464102902355454202020-08-08T18:32:00.056+02:002020-08-08T20:01:30.707+02:00A Load of Rubbish? Is there anything more pointless than trying to understand collective nouns?<p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDLmEh9OJVxuo4FJ9_5BbezWcX4FmDsfas887_8nOy4mqc_CLc5NoGc3mVFa4RzY27hN1hggxNPZsqjNWghRSfbzUT_tuNGLUnTGKajNxf3VlshZMSGgTJWXiKjI-zaKs8iTAuFMiIfyE3/s276/rat1.jpg" style="display: inline !important; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="276" data-original-width="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhDLmEh9OJVxuo4FJ9_5BbezWcX4FmDsfas887_8nOy4mqc_CLc5NoGc3mVFa4RzY27hN1hggxNPZsqjNWghRSfbzUT_tuNGLUnTGKajNxf3VlshZMSGgTJWXiKjI-zaKs8iTAuFMiIfyE3/s0/rat1.jpg" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7MwLlmxIVRXVwJ_yVJ5wXRoC2HHSgxKRASoDRaOW1du2KKsaOOWiqq0YJr83TguukAomPzFI_S4ywiNF6EIJwA0OMw1Z3CcbG2Uc4pcjgyoxpUeJqASeRNtWbv4DGgZMA6OvuLQLPSyMX/s300/rat2.jpg" style="display: inline; padding: 1em 0px;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="300" height="263" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7MwLlmxIVRXVwJ_yVJ5wXRoC2HHSgxKRASoDRaOW1du2KKsaOOWiqq0YJr83TguukAomPzFI_S4ywiNF6EIJwA0OMw1Z3CcbG2Uc4pcjgyoxpUeJqASeRNtWbv4DGgZMA6OvuLQLPSyMX/w469-h263/rat2.jpg" width="469" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;">Did
you know that the collective noun for rats is a 'mischief'? I remember learning
loads of collective nouns when I was at school. Learning collective nouns (as
they’re called) used to be an essential part of a good education, once upon a
time. (As was Latin, learning how to use a slide rule, and being hit with
plimsoles or rulers by your teachers.) Then it all went out of fashion. </span></span></div><p></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Collective nouns always seemed quite
ridiculous to me for a number of reasons. There were so many of them to start
with that it was <i>impossible</i> to remember them all. As well as a swarm of
bees, a pack of dogs, and a murmuration of starlings - there’s a cackle of
hyenas, a flamboyance of flamingos, a scurry of squirrels, a memory of
elephants, a rhumba of rattlesnakes, a stubbornness of rhinoceroses, an
implausibility of gnus, a descent of woodpeckers… I’ve barely started. What
sort of linguistic madness is this? Who, in their right mind, is going to announce
in the middle of their safari trip: ‘Oh, look, a stubbornness of rhinoceroses.’
People will think you’re in need of sedation, or a course of lessons in
‘getting a grip’. Would there ever be a situation, in any normal life, where
the knowledge that a gang of rhinos is called a stubbornness, would in any way
be useful, or interesting? Or would it always make you look like some kind of a
loser in desperate need of a straight-talking friend?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And what do you do if you spot a few
zebras, for example, and you don’t know the correct collective noun? Do you risk
being humiliated by the resident pedant in your jeep by saying, ‘Oh, look at
that lovely bunch of zebras’? Actually, zebras would be a good one to choose as,
with luck, the pedants would start a small war as they argue whether zebras are
a dazzle, a crossing, a zeal, a cohort or a bog-standard herd, all of which
(according to the blabbernet) are correct. Think I’ll stick to bunch myself -
might catch on.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>It gets worse, you wouldn’t credit
it, but it does. Geese are a good example of the English language completely
losing the right to be taught ever again. You’re probably murmuring ‘gaggle’
under your breath but just hold on to your (herd of) horses. A gaggle is only
used when geese are <i>on the ground</i>. If they’re flying then it’s a skein
of geese. That is completely batty. (A colony of bats, if you’re really
interested.) Hit google and you’ll discover that nearly every animal has more
than one option. Bats are also a cloud; hyenas a clan; squirrels a dray; elephants
a herd…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>Did you know (do you care) that this
psychosis for giving ridiculous names to groups isn’t confined to animals? I
didn’t realise this myself, until recently, well, about ten minutes ago, as my
teachers (St. Georges, Maida Vale, London – name and shame) decided <i>not</i>
to expand my vocabulary beyond collective nouns for animals. What were they
playing at? No wonder I never made it in the City or politics. I could have
been Prime Minister had they taught me that it’s an argument of wizards, a banner
of knights, a charm of fairies, a flap of nuns, a glory of unicorns... And no,
a unicorn is <i>not</i> another animal!<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>And why stop there? What sort of a
half-hearted language is it that <i>doesn’t</i> have a collective noun for a
load of forks, for example? Pathetic. I’m going to invent one now. From now on
it’s a fusillade of forks. Yes, that sounds good. ‘Hey Linda, some hungry
guests have just arrived, shall I open a tin of peaches and grab a fusillade of
forks from the drawer?’ And what about flowers? Don’t they deserve collective
nouns? ‘When they’ve gone, I think I’ll plant a riviera of roses in front of
the bins. Wha’dya think?’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Great idea! And how about a doodle
of daffodils next to the compost heap?’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Oh, well, I thought a hysteria of
wisteria would look good there. Is that a siren I can hear?’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span>‘Yes, it must be an alarm of
ambulances. I think they’ve stopped outside: get your coat!’<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"> So, should we bring back the
teaching of collective nouns? In fact, wasn’t this one of the main arguments
for Brexit? Taking back control of our collective nouns? I’m sure Boris Johnson
said they’d been banned by the EU. Sadly, I think that ship (fleet, if there
are more than one) has sailed. Could you imagine trying to sort out the mess
and then deciding on <i>one</i> name to
learn for each? I mean, you couldn't expect children to learn them <i>all</i>. That would cause an almighty row, as all the pedants (and Michael Gove)
argued about which one was 'correct'. I always thought ‘mischief’ was correct
for rats, as that was what my teachers had taught me. It’s quite a revelation
to learn that your teachers were quite possibly useless. Worrying, really. No,
probably best <i>not</i> to bother exhuming collective nouns. It would only
start a row as I said ‘mischief’ and other people said ‘plague’ or ‘swarm’ or
‘pack’ or ‘colony’. Or even ‘horde’. Because that was what <i>they</i> learned
at school while I was being reliably informed that it was a ‘mischief’ - and
hit with a plimsole if I didn’t remember it the following Tuesday morning. I'm
going to stick with 'mischief' myself. No particular reason - except for the
psychological scars.</span><span face="" style="font-family: calibri, sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;">If you like the blog, why not read the eBooks? </span><u style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><i><b>Zen Kyu Maestro: An English Teacher's Spanish Adventure,</b></i></u><span style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"> (Monday Books) available from Amazon. </span></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span face="" style="color: red; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: medium; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;">And the sequel: <i><u><b>Cucuruchos or Cucurachas? An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma</b></u></i>, eBook or paperback from Amazon.</span></span></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">Two years in the life of an English teacher, teaching a class of lively Spanish seven-year-olds, in English, in Spain.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: red;">What could possibly go wrong?</span></span><span style="font-size: large;"></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm; text-align: justify;"><div class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.18cm;"><span style="font-size: large;">“The detailed way Dean has described the atmosphere of this little city in Spain is magnificent.” <b>Salford University, The Salfordian.</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span face="" style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: large; text-align: left;"><i style="color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span face="">Click below for</span> free sample chapters:</i></span></span></span></div><p></p><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang=""><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: x-large;"><span face="" style="font-family: arial, sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: red;"><i> <a href="https://amzn.to/2ldiIZK" target="_blank">Zen Kyu Maestro</a> Cucarachas <a href="https://amzn.to/2obIv5K" target="_blank">eBook</a> <a href="https://amzn.to/2nvYgUV" target="_blank">paperback</a></i></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZAtkaQHnBg0Nb3Z5cIJbbRsMPCSv4SPIrMvCnDPkeaJ3SqCHknolW-8UMMbPi1JKDDA6cMW29ybljju3Zl9-clL7GanwYCZehFsQJ0JCY1kRsiOfRSlA6ElQ17MxWclEGRhlHQVqNdWf/s900/zenkyumaestroebook_cover-ebook.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0px;"></a><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="577" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPZAtkaQHnBg0Nb3Z5cIJbbRsMPCSv4SPIrMvCnDPkeaJ3SqCHknolW-8UMMbPi1JKDDA6cMW29ybljju3Zl9-clL7GanwYCZehFsQJ0JCY1kRsiOfRSlA6ElQ17MxWclEGRhlHQVqNdWf/w210-h328/zenkyumaestroebook_cover-ebook.jpg" width="210" /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-6uE60ZJmskIoETaoVQHKfJTfGqI6figIILxjhavpXCCjNzsujqEFCE7qDRRA3MVYJLHdCHXbotOIn7EZlxDvu0iq5CRfNdDFcpKBXvuK7TTDcMdarXLe5LqDP-YCL6d_on6qDuH775Y/s680/Cover+for+Twitter+Facebook.JPG" style="display: inline; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 1em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="425" height="328" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-6uE60ZJmskIoETaoVQHKfJTfGqI6figIILxjhavpXCCjNzsujqEFCE7qDRRA3MVYJLHdCHXbotOIn7EZlxDvu0iq5CRfNdDFcpKBXvuK7TTDcMdarXLe5LqDP-YCL6d_on6qDuH775Y/w205-h328/Cover+for+Twitter+Facebook.JPG" width="205" /></a></div><br /><p class="Textbody" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p>jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-25444644634599399162019-09-07T17:10:00.002+02:002019-09-07T17:10:55.018+02:00Cucarachas or Cucuruchos? An English Teacher's Spanish Dilemma - Extract<br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">An
infant teacher’s away today so I’m doing her playtime duty. I
usually do duty in the ‘junior’ playground where footballs and
skipping ropes dominate, although there are often also a fair number
of football cards being swapped, dolls being dressed and undressed
again, tops spun and cuddly toys dismembered. I know the score in the
junior playground – well, as long as Toni hasn’t lost another
football.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The
infant playground is a whole new dimension. Here, I’m less at ease.
Well, to be honest, I’ve not much idea what’s going on. Swarms of
ridiculously small children bumble around, bumping into each other,
like wind-up toys with pieces of their mechanisms missing. Every so
often a bumbling child will collapse onto the tarmac as the wiring
between brain and legs gets mangled somewhere near their
belly-button. It’s my ‘duty’ to help, as Miss Dolly (who’s on
duty with me) has gone to ‘powder her nose’…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ‘Are
you OK?’ I try gamely.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ‘WAAAAAAAAHHHHH.’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ‘Shall
we get you up and go and see Miss María?’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ‘WAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!’</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> A
large crowd of small spectators gathers. ‘Do you know who this is?’
I ask the spectators. I might as well ask the trees. The
children look at me like I’m an exhibit in the London Dungeon:
they’re hugely interested but slightly frightened. I think it’s
‘cos I’m a ‘man’. They don’t get many men around here. I
might not come back in a hurry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> The
wailing subsides and damaged child sits up. There’s no blood, but a
fair bit of snot.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ‘Go
to the toilet and bring me some tissue,’ I order no one in
particular. They ignore me. Actually, one of them is stroking my
head. I have quite a tight crop so I guess it might feel like a
hedgehog. I turn to face the child who’s stroking me. It’s a boy.
He smiles although he doesn’t have many teeth. He looks at me like
I am a hedgehog, or any other dumb animal who’ll let you stroke
them for as long as you like. He cocks his head to one side like he’s
pitying my inability to sort things out. I smile back at him. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">Child
on floor suddenly gets up and staggers away across the playground
into the melee. He’s like a mini-Frankenstein fresh off the
operating table stumbling blindly into everything in his meandering
path. Now I’m left on the ground with a crowd of ten or fifteen
children staring at me. Two of them are now stroking my head. One of
them asks me a question. I can tell it’s a question from the
intonation and the fact that they’re pointing at my head. The
language they’re using, however, is a mystery. A small girl with
curly hair has all her fingers in her mouth, like she thinks she’s
sucking a giant lolly; I hope she’s not planning on stroking my
head in the near future.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Suddenly
two or three start to point. And laugh. Before I can say, ‘What the
hell are you laughing at?’ they’ve lost all interest in me and
are starting to walk behind me. I turn around and see my career
disappear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Behind
me is the entrance to the school. It’s sealed by a metal-barred
gate, about four-metres wide and two-metres high. Whenever someone
wants to enter the school they buzz through to the office
who’ll open the gate. The gate is opening now,
sliding silently to the left, as a delivery truck waits outside with
hazards flashing and engine rumbling. My problem is that six or seven
children have climbed onto the gate and are enjoying a slow ride –
towards a quite nasty-looking mechanism which includes some pretty
large metal cogs and gears. It’s a bit like a James Bond film where
James Bond is tied to a board which is moving towards a circular saw
spinning at great speed. The children who have been watching (and
stroking) me are now pelting towards the gate to join in the
relatively-low jinks. <i>Bloody hell!</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ‘Get
off that gate!’ I yell, wondering if any of them are capable of
such a feat without risking dislocated joints or broken bones. The
gate isn’t moving that quickly but, as I’ve already seen, these
kids can fall over if a cloud passes overhead. ‘Get off!’ I yell
again, to equal effect (none). I rush over to the site of
international incident involving possible death or maiming of dozens
of small children under the care of J.J.Dean, and start plucking
children off the gate from the side nearest the cogs and gears. While
I’m doing this I shout at the other children who are approaching me
on the gate as it continues it’s journey. The children are having a
wonderful time, smiling and screaming back at me; they must think I’m
just joining in the ballyhoo. One boy has a particularly tight grip
on the bars. I have to peel his fingers off before setting him down
on the ground and reaching for the next laughing child who is inches
from death but doesn’t give a monkey’s. Within seconds there’s
another boy with an equally strong grip – until I notice that it’s
the same boy who’s just found another space on the gate and has
jumped back on.
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ‘Again!’
he shouts, nodding towards his fingers which are turning white with
the effort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I’m
finally saved when the gate stops, fully open. I breathe a long sigh
before noticing my next problem. Luckily, the driver isn’t planning
to drive his truck into the playground (I wouldn’t have bet against
it), but he is going to carry his
packet to the office while the office staff leave the
gate open until he returns. I stand in the middle of the entrance
facing into the playground. A dozen children, twenty now, maybe
thirty, line up facing me, staring beyond me into the orange groves
on the other side of the road. I honestly can’t see what they’re
staring at, they come in and out of this gate every day, it’s not
like I’ve opened Narnia’s wardrobe for them to look into.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> A
girl points. I look around. There’s a dog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Wild
dogs – well, OK, strays – are quite common around here. This one
is a brown 57 who doesn’t look dangerous. No, it’s worse. Much
worse. He looks playful. His head is cocked to one side, a bit like
the little boy who was stroking me five minutes ago when my problems
couldn’t possibly get any worse. The dog takes a tentative step
towards me. Oh god!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ‘Get
away!’ I say, ridiculously in English. <i>‘¡Vete!’</i> I try,
which I’m pretty sure means <i>get outa here you mangy mongrel</i>.
He prances towards me like I want him to play. ‘Goo on! Get ouda
here!’ He jinks past me and is in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Utter
bedlam. Complete chaos. Imagine aliens invade a busy IKEA firing lasers.
Kids are screaming in all directions, bumping and bashing into the
trees and each other, tripping over balls and ants. Within seconds
there are half a dozen on the floor nursing cut knees and god-knows
what else. I’m powerless to do anything except guard the entrance
to make sure none of them run out onto the road. Where the hell is
Miss Dolly?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> I
spot the van driver coming back across the playground looking bemused
at the carnage that is underway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> ‘<i>Perro</i>!’
(dog) I say as he passes me, like this will explain <i>everything</i>.
He raises his head in an ‘Oh, right,’ sort of expression. Then he
puts his fingers in his mouth and whistles the loudest whistle I’ve
ever heard. The dog appears from the mayhem and pelts towards him
provoking another epidemic of tripping and bumping into each other.
Driver gives me a little salute as he climbs into his cab. The gate
starts to close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Dolly
saunters out as the bell goes and the gate clicks shut. She’s not
exactly hurrying to begin with but her pace slows as she takes in the
battlefield. There are children hobbling towards her pointing at
their grazed knees and elbows and wailing like zombies. She looks at
me. Her look says <i>I leave you </i><i>alone </i><i>for five
minutes…</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"> Next
time they’re looking for some sucker to do duty in the infant
playground? I’ve got a dentist’s appointment for root canal.</span></div>
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<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: large;">A year in the life of an English teacher, teaching a class of lively Spanish seven-year-olds, in English, in Spain.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;">“The detailed way Dean has described the atmosphere of this little city in Spain is magnificent.” <b>Salford University, The Salfordian.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I remember my first 'Nit Mágica'. Must be ten years ago, Castellón, part of the Magdalena celebrations. We had friends visiting from the UK.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Let's go!" I said, "It'll be fun."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">"Ummm, magicians. You know, rabbits out of hats, sawing people in half. It'll be great..."</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I was volunteered to ask the local police where the 'magicians' were. The two officers looked at me as if I was a lunatic or British, or worse - both. They convinced us to hang around, and we managed to understand that there wouldn't be any magicians.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, OK, so there are no snakes left anymore (<i>Colubraria</i> means serpent in Latin). But there are poisonous spiders and scorpions!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But before you mock, I'll tell you a little known fact: after Switzerland, <i>Spain is the <u><b>most mountainous</b></u> country in Europe!</i> So up we go.</span></span><br />
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jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-44521047215808434612017-07-08T17:57:00.002+02:002017-07-09T19:49:22.682+02:00Fanzara: You Don't Have to Go to Egypt to See Great Art in the Making...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Fanzara, a small, nondescript town, thirty minutes from the coast in Castellón. Or so it used to be...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">could possibly go wrong...?</span></span></i></span></span></span><br />
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hugely entertaining compilation of stories and experiences is a
must-read for anyone interested in traveling the world and
experiencing other cultures.” “...positive and inspiring.”
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jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.com212230 Fanzara, Castellón, España40.0189724 -0.3157347999999728940.015932400000004 -0.3207772999999729 40.0220124 -0.31069229999997289tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-65689761354419681232017-07-07T17:06:00.001+02:002017-07-07T17:06:36.786+02:00¿Dónde Estamos? Where Are We? #1<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I can feel an 'occasional' posting coming on...</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">We were out for a walk a day or so ago when we came across this (or <i>these</i>). </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first person to email me <i><u>both</u></i> correct answers (zenkyumaestro@yahoo.es) will receive an Amazon voucher for a copy of <i><b>Zen Kyu Maestro: An English Teacher's Spanish Adventure</b></i> (see below for details).</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><i>¡Suerte!</i> </span></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><i>If you like the blog, why not read the eBook? <u><b>Zen Kyu Maestro, An English Teacher's Spanish Adventure</b></u>
available from Amazon. A Year in the life of an English teacher,
teaching a class of lively Spanish primary children, in English, in Spai<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">n.</span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">What <span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;">could possibly go wrong...?</span></span></i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: blue;">“<span lang="es-ES">This
hugely entertaining compilation of stories and experiences is a
must-read for anyone interested in traveling the world and
experiencing other cultures.” “...positive and inspiring.”
</span><span lang="es-ES"><b>University of East Anglia, Concrete
Magazine.</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><i><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif;"> </span> </span>For a free sample chapter, click <span style="background-color: white;"><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Zen-Kyu-Maestro-Teachers-Adventure-ebook/dp/B00B1I54KG" target="_blank">HERE</a></span>.</i></span></span></span></div>
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jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-65346123037862381262017-04-02T16:53:00.001+02:002017-04-02T17:00:42.129+02:00Run With Fire<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Corre<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">f</span>oc</i> in the local <i>Valenciano</i> lingo. You really don't need any more explanation. As I say to the children in my class<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">,</span> <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">w</span>e don't do things like this back in <i>my</i> country. (Worse luck!)</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">If you like the snaps, here are <span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">more</span> from previous years:</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com.es/2016/09/correfoc-in-vila-real.html">http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com.es/2016/09/correfoc-in-vila-real.html</a><br />
<a href="http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com/2016/03/correfoc.html" target="_blank">http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com/2016/03/correfoc.html</a><br />
<a href="http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com/2015/10/correfoc-run-with-fire.html" target="_blank">http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com/2015/10/correfoc-run-with-fire.html</a><br />
<a href="http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com/2015/03/fallas-2015-correfoc-run-with-fire.html" target="_blank">http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com/2015/03/fallas-2015-correfoc-run-with-fire.html</a><br />
<a href="http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com/2014/03/nit-de-foc.html" target="_blank">http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com/2014/03/nit-de-foc.html</a><br />
<a href="http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com/2013/03/nit-magica-magic-night-castellon.html" target="_blank">http://zenkyumaestro.blogspot.com/2013/03/nit-magica-magic-night-castellon.html</a><br />
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jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-31889066159768980262017-03-16T21:46:00.000+01:002017-03-16T21:47:38.435+01:00The Other Fallas<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Don't make the mistake that we made, of assuming that <i>Fallas</i> only happens in the city of <i>Valencia</i>. Far from it. A number of local towns also get in on the act. <i>Burriana</i> (or <i>Borriana</i>, in the local <i>Valenciano</i> lingo) has 19 <i>Fallas</i> of its own. While none of them match the scale of the biggest in the city, the quality of the artwork rivals anything in the <i>Comunidad</i> <i>Valenciana</i>. Here are some works-in-progress.</span></span></div>
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<br />jeremyinspainhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14825585375875450419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4128266148742899232.post-76646443184404809452017-03-13T19:11:00.000+01:002017-03-13T19:11:12.591+01:00It's That Time of Year Again... Fallas!<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-size: large;">Yes, here we go again. My eleventh Fallas and, as usual, we start with the preparations...</span></div>
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