#192

ffs :joy:

#193

This is clearly how Father Dougal would decorate a musical instrument

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#194

ruel fox is such a good name

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#195

It’s a great name. He want on first and then I went “Fuck it!” and added the rest.

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#196

Watched goals of the season 93/94, saw a corking ruel fox one

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#197

Have to say the standard of keeping was poor though.

#198

There are obviously pics of both cats in the cat thread, dummy

#199

touché

edit:
old pics!!! pfffffffffft

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#200

tbh i just read the opening couple paragraphs filled with your usual mentions of UKIP/racism and skipped the rest. If you had just written about mental health issues i wouldn’t have liked the post.

#201

To spite the likes of @TKC, this is the prompt my class of EFL 6th formers ended up with for this week’s creative writing session- create a short horror comic in pairs from whatever ideas It Took The Night To Realise gave them. Last week we did some 100 word stories from Boards of Canada’s Reach For the Dead . Ideas included nuclear war, the aftermath of ISIS invading your town, and dying alone.

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#202

That’s a great idea!

#203

They’re very smart kids with a high level of English who have voluntarily chosen to come on a 2-week English course, so just repeating the sort of stuff from textbooks they do back home isn’t going to cut it.

#204

The weekly project theme this week is “Health”, so I’m going to show them some of those terrifying old public safety videos like “I am the spirit of dark and lonely water” and they have to create their own.

#205

:+1: I remember my english teacher doing this with Whats He Building In There by Tom Waits
at the time I was like what the f is this he’s lost the plot

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#206

My entire teaching strategy.

Actually last week we had a boy whose favourite tv show is Twin Peaks. He and his two mates left the school disco early, to watch a Russian film I’d mentioned in class (Tarkovsky’s Stalker). It makes my life very easy.

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#207

It really make a difference to kids when a teacher brings intheir own inspirations. My best teacher was my English one in high school, cause he always used examples of films and books which were not on the curriculum to illustrate his point, and it really made an impression

#208

Yeah I have total free reign to do whatever on this course, but of course I also have to create the materials (I have a large selection of previous things I’ve done though). We’ve done TS Eliot and Under Milk Wood recently too. I gave them character summaries from Under Milk Wood, and we then played a speed dating game with each of them playing a character. They took an already fairly dark play and basically turned it into Royston Vasey without having seen the League of Gentlemen. They arranged to kill several characters, sell them to the butcher for Special Meat, and give the struggling musician work playing at the funerals.

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#209

Also I taught @Severed799’s old housemate on the same course in 2008 when she was still in sixth form and had not yet moved to London, and she recognised me 8 years later!

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#210

you should show them the recent film version with Charlotte Church in it! a good task to get them to take a vested interest would be to assign them something in their spare time to then do a project or a presentation or essay on. i remember having to pick a book from the BBC’s list of best published novels and doing one on that. a 14 year old me reading The Stand before bed time every night!

#211

Ah these are kids on a 2 week intensive residential holiday course, they are kept busy 24/7 with sport/excursions/games etc, and only have class til 1pm on 3 days of the week. So they don’t have homework or much unstructured spare time while they’re here, and maximum time for a tv show in class is 45 mins once a week.