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Out Of The Mouths Of Babes

November 6, 2007 By Jenny Ryan 5 Comments

The other day I had a session with one of my new students. I was testing him on his vocabulary in preparation for a test, and we got to the word “edad”, which means “age”.

He couldn’t remember the English definition, so I tried to give him a hint.

I said, “If I tell you, ‘yo tengo treinta y cinco años’ (Literally, “I have 35 years”), then ‘treinta y cinco años’ is my ‘edad’.”

He thought about it for a while, and suddenly the light of comprehension dawned on his face.

So proud with himself for finally arriving at the right answer he yelled out, “I’ve got it-it’s OLD!”

Filed Under: CFG And Her Students, Teaching: It's Not For Wimps, These Are The Days Of My Life Tagged With: funny stories, working with teenagers

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  1. Lynne Morrell says

    November 6, 2007 at 9:50 am

    Did ya smack him?

  2. friendinme says

    November 6, 2007 at 3:05 pm

    you shoulda said, “yo tengo veinte y quince anos”

    es un edad muy bueno 😉

    (if I didn’t get this right, well, heck, forgive me… estudio Espanol para tres anos in escuela secondaraia — y — yo tengo veinte y viente y diez y dos anos) nuff said. 😉

  3. Jon says

    November 7, 2007 at 2:38 pm

    That is awesome!

  4. Guilty Secret says

    November 11, 2007 at 4:50 pm

    Of course! Thanks for the laugh 😉

  5. Chaim says

    November 16, 2007 at 12:48 am

    How old is this kid?

    I am turning *25* next week. I get called “old” all the time by some teenagers that I babysit on occasion. It baffles me. If they only knew how fast the time was going to go. 35… old. At the rate time flies for me, I’ll be 40 about 36 hours from now….

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