http://www.expatintaiwan.net/2010/01/13/awesome-student-response-of-the-day/ An American expatriate shares his thoughts on life, language, food, and culture in Taiwan. Mon, 02 Jan 2012 06:14:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.expatintaiwan.net/2010/01/13/awesome-student-response-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-6161 simplicity778 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:57:58 +0000 http://www.expatintaiwan.net/?p=500#comment-6161 By the way, I thought your posting was hilarious!!! I couldn't stop laughing all day! Yes, literally. My husband would ask me why I would randomly start laughing. And all I could say was... "the bat man!" :-) By the way, I thought your posting was hilarious!!! I couldn’t stop laughing all day! Yes, literally. My husband would ask me why I would randomly start laughing. And all I could say was… “the bat man!”

]]> http://www.expatintaiwan.net/2010/01/13/awesome-student-response-of-the-day/comment-page-1/#comment-5674 simplicity778 Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:12:24 +0000 http://www.expatintaiwan.net/?p=500#comment-5674 Here's Engrish for you... I used to incorporate pronunciation into quizzes by saying the vocabulary words aloud and having my students write the definitions. I told them that as long as I could tell they knew the meaning of the word, I would give them the point. Students would get really creative on definitions sometimes. The funniest definition I got was based on a basic mispronunciation. The word was "restroom." One of my students wrote, "This is where you go to get something to eat." Here’s Engrish for you… I used to incorporate pronunciation into quizzes by saying the vocabulary words aloud and having my students write the definitions. I told them that as long as I could tell they knew the meaning of the word, I would give them the point. Students would get really creative on definitions sometimes. The funniest definition I got was based on a basic mispronunciation. The word was “restroom.” One of my students wrote, “This is where you go to get something to eat.”

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