Maxine writes:
How do I use them? Well, last year, no two years ago,
1996, I started to
collect these quotes and then wondered what to do with them.
I had just begun teaching Yud English Speakers and decided would begin
each lesson with a funny quote of the day. They loved it; it started
off the lesson with a
good feeling (even though I got plenty of groans) and a few were
linguistically edifying as well, e.g., Dan Quayle's "The U.S. condones
violence in El Salvador." Most of them had never heard the
word "condone"
before (thought I meant condemn" or "condom") but NOW they know
it!
Anyway, that's how I did it. When I stopped doing it for some
unknown
reason, they kept asking me, "Nu, what happened to the quote of
the day?"
It obviously takes a certain type of class to do this with.
In addition, last year I had a Yud Bet I adored; I taught them for
three
years and we just had this great relationship. I wanted to
give them
something as a farewell present, so I gave each of them a booklet
with all
kinds of stuff, funny stuff like the quotes I showed you, Crazy
laws on the
books in the United States, which I can send you if you'd like,
Ambiguous
Headlines, basically the same ones you have on your homepage, the
OJ
Simpson Trial as told by Dr. Seuss which I sent to ETNI long ago,
hilarious excerpts from Bagrut exams, collected while marking (can
also
send you those if you want), a brilliant college admissions
essay sent to
ETNI written by someone named Hugh Gallagher, you've probably
got it, and the funniest one of all, lawyers' questions and answers taken
from actual court transcripts. There were serious pieces as well,
some favorite poems, a speech Rabin gave when receiving the Nobel Peace
Prize, etc.
If anyone wants to contact me, this is my address:
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