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First lesson. A lively group of 25 eighteen year olds. Plan -different ways of introducing yourselves. . .. told them about my former work with pre-school children and families. As a demonstration (good excuse) I read them a story. The 18 year olds go wide eyed and silent at The Very Hungry Caterpillar and one girl volunteered to read book in Vietnamese. I couldn't help but laugh – the whole class spontaneously joined in with the chorus lines. They seem to like chanting in unison. Our local food market sells mounds of edible caterpillars. I don't know if this cultural difference had any impact -probably not.<\/span><\/p>\n

Share with your neighbor – report two ways you are the same, and two ways you are different.<\/span><\/p>\n

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'I am different to you. I arrived to a room with air conditioning, a fridge and a T.V. and I minded that the sateen curtains were yellow.<\/span><\/p>\n

'I am different to all of you because many of you have little money to eat more than beans and rice.<\/span><\/p>\n

'I am the same as you because I am enthusiastic and I have dreams too although they sometimes falter and fade.<\/span><\/p>\n

'I am different to you because in my country people are often very rude to tourists.<\/span><\/p>\n

I do not share these items with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

First lesson. A lively group of 25 eighteen year olds. Plan -different ways of introducing yourselves. . .. told them about my former work with pre-school children and families. As a demonstration (good excuse) I read them a story. The 18 year olds go wide eyed and silent at The Very Hungry Caterpillar and one… Read More »Starting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-vietnam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":205,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions\/205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/deidremac.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}