Monday, November 06, 2006

Trick or Treat

As discovered in last week's lessons about Halloween,

Vocabulary Words My Students Knew Without Me Telling Them

corsair
eye patch
peg leg
hook
coffin
pale
vampire
fangs
zombie
cutlass

This from kids who can't put together a complete and correct sentence about what they did over their holiday. I don't get it.

2 comments:

steve said...

similarly, my students needed two week preparation to speech for two minutes about what they did on vacation, yet a lot of them knew these halloween vocab words.

Don't tell the people who gave me this scholarship, but I had to look up "corsair"

Nectar said...

I wonder if some of this doesn't come from the popular "Pirates of the Caribbean."