Arun Stephens » teaching

Where is Brian?

arun — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 00:24:00 +0000

Gad Elmaleh, a French stand-up comic and movie star, did a show in Lyon that’s on DVD now, called L’autre, c’est moi. All the kids have seen it here. Well, most of them. In it, he recounts how at school one of the first sentences he learnt was “Where is Brian?” He and his classmates respond “Brian is in the kitchen.” Brian also has a sister. “Jenny is the sister of the Brian. Jenny is in the batttthhhhroom.”

I thought I would see if that old-fashioned way of teaching English still works in the 21st century. It turns out it does.

I drew a house on the board with a kitchen and bathroom and a lounge and a bedroom. I realised that it’s actually a good way to teach prepositions.

Hello and Welcome

arun — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 20:51:00 +0000

So, I am finally getting around to posting stories about my trip to the other side of the world and my time in France. I tried writing my own blog engine to go with my photos on my web site at http://www.arunstephens.com/ but really, why reinvent the wheel? So here I am on the apparently new Blogger.

Like I promised on the old blog (which had two posts – http://www.arunstephens.com/blog.aspx) I am going to start writing backdated posts, starting from when I left home. Not sure whether I can actually backdate things though. Hopefully I can put some photos on here too, but I’m not sure about that either.

That’s all from me for now. I am at school and my next class is in 7 minutes.