Allison CP#6

06/11/2018
Conversation Partners #6 of 6

English Conversation Club
This was the fourth meeting of ECC and we continued to play Hedbandz. The students really liked it, and so I brought the cards back for the newer members this week. Some interesting American concepts that we covered from the game's vocabulary included the Easter Bunny and Lawn Mower. These were words that I assumed they knew, because Easter Bunny seems to be a larger phenomenon, like in the UK, but they had no idea what it was. This opened up an interesting parallel to the rituals of Santa Clause and how parents hide presents for their children under the guise of a character in many cultures. Lawn mower was also a surprising word because I had not really thought about how many Chinese students are from urban areas, where yards are more rare, so they would have no reason to know what a lawn mower was.

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