I wanted to hear all of my Junior 2 and Junior 3 students speak this week in class … so I opened with a simple ice breaker.

One at a time, each student stood up and told the class his favorite English word. Many of the students said simple words (i.e. “good”, “basketball”, and “happy”) … but there were also quite a few choice morsels. Here are some highlights from the first few classes:

1. UFO, beef, FBI, rabbit, golden, tornado, money, Beijing Duck, electronic, December, balloon
2. foolish, geography, smell, no, chicken, boring, body odor, why, WC, pigs fly in the sky, wonderful, weekend, elephant, dolphin, dumpling
3. confident, flower, award, interview, orange, dollar, Superman, believe, free, fashion, travel, friendship, hip hop, yes
4. r&b, clove, millimeter, mother, opportunity, Mickey Mouse, detective, romantic, nature, hamburger, parrot, butterfly, Pacific, God, experience
5. freeze, healthy, dollar, beautiful girl, watching TV, computer, sleep, wolf, dragon, go shopping, popular, swing, Sunday, perfect, relax, strawberry, fantastic, magic, off, princess
6. English, Michael Jordan, Beckham, kill, history, money, no more, freedom, fantasy, crystal, healthy, guitar, magical, favorite, game over, tofu, terrific, future, holiday, slow
7. wonderful, moon, perfect, one, violet, rocket, delicious, vacation, fairy, knowledge, wife, province, comic, kiss, surprise, terrorist, bank, adjective, indigo, teacher, farmer

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