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Re: Teaching Bloopers!
When I was teaching 6 year olds in Korea I gave them all nickname -mostly little rhymes based on their English name: June Balloon, Blue Sue...etc. One kid was called George so he obviously became Georgey Porgey. Everytime I called him that though he would hang his head. I thought I'll keep going it'll toughen him up until one day a Korean co-teacher asked to speak to me. "They've all got nicknames" I said, "it's good for them, bit of fun" i argued defensively. She asked me to stop calling Little George 'Georgey Porgey'. Ia asked her why and she told me that'porgey' meant something in Korean. I asked her what and she went bright red and turned coy. I kept pushing her until exasperated she finally blurted out "vagina". -Ooooppps!
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