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TEACHING ENGLISH "IN

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THE WOES AND TRIALS OF A

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Mr. E. V. Gatenby gives in 7.1's and Cassell's Weekly some of his impressions as a teacher of English in Japan-

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English is a compulsory subject, except in primary schools. throughout Japan Boys usually begin learning it at the age of thirteen to fourteen in the middle

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To make himself anderstood. he must write on the board, and the more his style approaches "Johnsonese, the more readily will his meaning be grasped.

Inexperienced but hopeful. I rashly tried one group of students with a para- phrase of Break, break, break." golog so far as to explain the poem slowly and distinctly before asking them to write. Out came the dictionaries. The follow- Barometer ing is a version I have pieced together Temperature

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Rupturer rupture, rupture, or your stones of low temperature. coloured like ashes, I say, sea! I wish to vomit out all thoughts which come up me How happy it is for the boy, supported by the man who lives by fishing-the piscatory child shrieking with his sister at play! Ah well," the naviga-| tor's youth sings in his boat on the in let. The dignified vessels advance to their paradisical destination beneath the eminence less than a mountain | How long for the touch of a dead man's hand-the band that vanished. when I touched it-and the narrow pas sage of water of a voice that is quiet. Spray, spray, become discontinuous at the lowest point of "your cliffs. O Ocean But the tender grass which grows at the seashore is withered, "80" the grass never grows at the seashore.

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This shock, and some reverence for Tennyson. prompted me 10 try new Thar. 27 methods. The students have an immense vocabulary, but it is like she pieces of a

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jigsaw puzzle which they can put toge Satar. 29 m 11 43 ther. It was necessary, therefore, to take the words they knew, and to persuade them to learn sentences off by heart. But this they shirked; it was much too ele Mon. mentary after translating King Lear into Japanese under Japanese teacher. Consequently, when the conversation ex amination came, and they were expected to write down replies showing that at least they understood spoken English, they delivered themselves of the follow- ing:-

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Q-What do you light, a cigarette | with?

4-(1) Yes, I like it very much, (2) I don't like any of sugarlet, (3) I hate cigars. · (4) With hand.

Q. Where do we get coal from? A~(1) I come from Kobe. (2) I don't. (3) I caught it at the Hanaya's. (4) From heaven. (5) I felt very cool. (6) I have go the shop.

2-What is the last letter of the English alphabet!

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Another student called on us at Christ- mas, and na he came in said to me: "How's your Mary?" He had been reading about the origin of Christmas

A(1) Yours truly. (2) Yours faith-or Mary Pickford-and had conceived the fully. (3) Zoological Gardens.

idea that Mary" meant wife.

Q-Why do we use mosquito nets 7 A. (1) I cannot understand." mos-

kitrets" (2) To catch a bird. (3)

To give a last quotation, which is only too true. "We are now in wet season

in Japan. Its characteristic is wet. All is used to protect the mosquito. (4) things around us are damped by small For hunting. (5) As we are bit by pieces of water." moit

AMTSING"EXAMPLEB--

At a later stage, after plenty of prac

tice in repeating my sentences, there was much improvement; but even when asked to write an answer the bulk of which was to consist of thy own words, a few went astray.

Q-What does lead do if you throw it into the fire.?

A-(1) I did not laid it into the fire. (2) I cannot lay in the fire, I Bu burn. (3) We put out the fire.

Q-What is a guard's van), A-(1) I cannot explain what the girl's barn is (2) Gun's van is a little iros ball.

Some of our everyday words are quite unknown to Japanese students, and although I took care to ask no words which had not already been discussed in class, one or two absentees invariably suffered when the examination came. Q-What is an alarni-clock ↑ 41) Arm clock is tied by the arm. (2) you put it at 0.50 to berst, it will be beret

Q-Is lead very hard, or is it com- paratively soft

4.-The legs are comparatively soft. QWhat metre is Tennyson's Ulys aes written in ?

(3) In diameter. (2) Thërmome- ter. (3) It is written in meter phor."

Q-What did Ulysses want to do in Tennyson's poem 3,

A-I am very sorry I idle away your lesson, excuse me, sir.

" BOW'S YOUR MARY ???

If a student has a chance of speaking: to a foreigner regularly, he makes rapid progress, and soon gets past the bewilder- ed stage, though he will make curious mistakes at times. One told a lady to whom small children were bowing in the street. They bow to you because you dre a curiosity When suffering from a cold the same lady was surprised to hear, a most polite gentleman say: "When you come again, plenss.come healthy!

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