Cocktails and Chicken Feathers
Lost in translation!
As an English teacher, I hear things every day that make me laugh or smile. Often I forget them by the time I get to writing them down, but this one made me laugh yesterday!
I have a class of beginner level girls from Nepal. Their English is improving well, but their culture is so different not only to mine, but to that of Mumbai and the hotel we work in. I try and bring in some of these cultural differences into class alongside the language and this was an example of this.
While teaching the future, I gave them a sample diary of an imaginary guest and what he planned to do in the next week. This resulted in the sentence ‘On Friday night he is going to have cocktails with his friends.’
One of the students looked at me innocently and asked ‘What’s a cocktail?’ Then her eyes light up and she says ‘Oh, cock, like hen, and tail, like feathers!’
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