Flower sex in the EFL classroom
Continuing my David Attenborough obsession (I’ve come to think of him as the British Confucius), about the only other thing I remember from watching “The private life of plants” is that flowers and insects and the whole of creation is just trying to plant their seed! I know I said we were ignoring X in the classroom a bit much, but this is going too far!
Oh well, if you can’t fight the birds and the bees, use them. It is also a fair bet that most of our students, as well as learning English, also will at some point in their lives want to get laid. Sounds like a marketing opportunity to me! If we can convince our students that studying with us and/ or improving their English is going to give them opportunities to meet people and/ or make them more desirable to the other sex, well- Attenborough!, he say “Big bucks and much higher TOEIC scores all around!”
Here are a few suggestions:
- Posters for schools showing a classroom that is actually a speed dating night rather than a lesson, so that all the “students” giving all the “right” body language of heightened interest (not the kind of body language generally seen in teenage English classes, I can tell you)
- Arrange classes by compatability rather than/ as well as by level
- Having a textbook cover seeped in pheremones
I’m sure there are millions of others, which I am expecting you, my faithful-and-slightly-feverish-from-the insanely-hot-weather readers, to come up with and post here: