*playing a Jeopardy game. answer written in the ppt is "She's a teacher."*Student 1: "She is a teacher."*switch to answer slide, give team the points*Student 2: "No! It says 'She's'! He said 'She is'! He is wrong!"I can appreciate competitiveness, and there is a time and place for being super picky about semantics. But seriously? The question was "What job does she do?", not anything about contractions. Calm down.
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Quote from: tadpole511 on February 07, 2018, 10:27:23 am*playing a Jeopardy game. answer written in the ppt is "She's a teacher."*Student 1: "She is a teacher."*switch to answer slide, give team the points*Student 2: "No! It says 'She's'! He said 'She is'! He is wrong!"I can appreciate competitiveness, and there is a time and place for being super picky about semantics. But seriously? The question was "What job does she do?", not anything about contractions. Calm down.My kids are super picky about that as well. I usually give the team points if they're close to the answer. But my kids like to play teacher and insist that I must listen to them. I've started leaving the answers out of the powerpoints. That way it can be whatever I want it to be. It's funny though how they'll be so strict about other team's points but the moment it's their turn they ask the teacher to be nice and just give it to them.
Just saw a woman walking with a child who looked 2 years old or less. Walked to the car, open the back door, place child on back seat, no safety measures, not even a seat belt, close the door, get in front seat PUT ON HER SEATBELT and drive away. As long as you are safe love!
Quote from: wanderlust8 on February 07, 2018, 10:38:00 amQuote from: tadpole511 on February 07, 2018, 10:27:23 am*playing a Jeopardy game. answer written in the ppt is "She's a teacher."*Student 1: "She is a teacher."*switch to answer slide, give team the points*Student 2: "No! It says 'She's'! He said 'She is'! He is wrong!"I can appreciate competitiveness, and there is a time and place for being super picky about semantics. But seriously? The question was "What job does she do?", not anything about contractions. Calm down.My kids are super picky about that as well. I usually give the team points if they're close to the answer. But my kids like to play teacher and insist that I must listen to them. I've started leaving the answers out of the powerpoints. That way it can be whatever I want it to be. It's funny though how they'll be so strict about other team's points but the moment it's their turn they ask the teacher to be nice and just give it to them.For each lesson, I have a PPT with ten or twelve target sentences on a slide at the end. I give a class one warning when it comes to this kind of thing (teachers are the judges and all decisions are final); the second time there are complaints, I pull up that PPT and the whole class copies sentences until the end of the period. It's pretty effective.
Quote from: tadpole511 on February 08, 2018, 07:39:03 amQuote from: sligo on February 07, 2018, 02:41:52 pmJust saw a woman walking with a child who looked 2 years old or less. Walked to the car, open the back door, place child on back seat, no safety measures, not even a seat belt, close the door, get in front seat PUT ON HER SEATBELT and drive away. As long as you are safe love!I'll do ya one better. There's a car I walk past every day on my way to school, and the parents are putting the toddler in the front seat sans carseat. Never seen them put a seatbelt on him either.I can do one better. A couple of times, I've seen a dad allowing his 2/3 year-old son to stand between the front seats, with his head out the sunroof waving his arms around, whilst driving down a road at about 60 km/h.
Quote from: sligo on February 07, 2018, 02:41:52 pmJust saw a woman walking with a child who looked 2 years old or less. Walked to the car, open the back door, place child on back seat, no safety measures, not even a seat belt, close the door, get in front seat PUT ON HER SEATBELT and drive away. As long as you are safe love!I'll do ya one better. There's a car I walk past every day on my way to school, and the parents are putting the toddler in the front seat sans carseat. Never seen them put a seatbelt on him either.
That ******. That fuckityfuckfuckfuck ing ******. Long story short, I have a new arch-nemesis. In lighter news, I've lost two USBs and a sports bra in this past week. No idea where they are, but they're gone.
Missing bra? You can’t “long story short” that one.:)
Quote from: JNM on February 08, 2018, 10:31:23 amMissing bra? You can’t “long story short” that one.:)Haha, the missing bra is completely unrelated to the "long story short," but if it makes you feel better I suspect that someone might have decided to keep it for themselves since there's only really one place I could have left it, and it hadn't been reported as thrown out or returned to the front desk. And since most women here would never be able to fit into my bras, I suspect it's become a showpiece. Which, I don't blame them. It was a very nice sports bra. xD
Much better; thank you.:)
Quote from: JNM on February 09, 2018, 07:52:54 amMuch better; thank you.:)Anytime.