Functional French, Tuesday, Period 2

[one-who-goes.livejournal.com]

The students who arrived early today would find no sign of their teacher. Nor would the students who arrived right on time, or even those who crept in five minutes late.

But, eventually -- about 15 minutes into the hour -- Henry raced in the door, wearing a misbuttoned shirt a size too big and with a long smudge of mud along one cheek.

It was better the class not ask.

"Sorry about that," he tossed off. "We're talking about emergencies today, and I had one, lucky me."

Again ... better not to ask.

He passed out several handouts, briefly lecturing on their content. Then he smiled at the class. "For your assignment today, I'd like for you to pair up. One of you is in an assigned emergency, the other is helping you. Then reverse the situation."

Comments

Re: Activity - Emergencies [6/15]

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

//If you insist//, Peter said. //I'm afraid all my money is on fire, right now//

Re: Activity - Emergencies [6/15]

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Rilla arched her eyebrows at him and then glanced down at her notes again. //I'm sure we could come up with a payment plan. Sometimes my father gets chickens.//

If she had gotten half of that even close in French, she'd be very proud of herself.

Re: Activity - Emergencies [6/15]

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"...Was that something about chickens?" Peter said, faltering from French entirely.

Re: Activity - Emergencies [6/15]

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Rilla looked pleased. "Yes. My father's a doctor. Sometimes he gets paid in chickens."

Re: Activity - Emergencies [6/15]

[theotherpeter.livejournal.com]

"Seriously," Peter said. "Not just made up for the class, paid in chickens."