.....back to school. Teaching directions this week, north, south, east, west. The kids already know the Chinese words so that part is easy, except that in Chinese it's east-north, west-south etc, not north-east, south-west. They manage quite well with some help giving directions with a map of the school on the board &, later in the week, many manage, as I frenziedly point at the compass sign above & make directional gestures, to navigate a map after we've worked out the English vocabulary for mountains, river, lake, desert etc. One student in a worksheet in the last lesson covered all bases by, in the blank space of “The mountains are ______ of the desert”, instead of writing “east” put a drawing of the compass with all the cardinal points included..... …..Becky is by far the brightest
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