Yesterday I went with a group of students to an English Week celebration in a neighboring community. The Ministry of Education´s English department has mandated a nationwide English Week to take place at some point during the month of June. And festivities were this week at this particular school. Their opening ceremony was a sort of invitational where kids from their own and different schools performed to American songs or did some sort of performance with English included. Our group recited a poem about soccer (appropriately entitled "Soccer" and written by yours truly). Below I have the text of the poem.
Keep several things in mind:
1) I´m not a poet.
2) These kids are in 5th grade.
3) English is not their native language.
Enjoy!
Soccer
Soccer in the morning,
soccer in the evening,
soccer all night and day.
A very simple game--
just don´t use your hands--
that anyone can play.
Kick it, bounce it off your head.
Bong! You hit the pole.
Get it back, take good aim
and hey! You scored a goal!
I will still try and post the video, but for now I suppose you will have to settle for a picture.
(Most pictures don´t do the kids justice. They´re absolutely adorable, but for some reason they don´t like to smile in most photos. And my buddy Melvin, the teacher... Well, he´s not a hard-ass like the photo depicts.)
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