This would’ve been really cool to do on the blog because it has a polling feature. So you could’ve entered your answers there. I guess I’ll have to come up with a new poll and try it out.
Originally distributed May 2011
This one is going to be interactive, and here’s why. I’ve been teaching English to the guides at the park where I’ve been staying since last June. One of the activities I did with them last week was playing a game where I gave one of them a word and he had to describe it for his classmates until they could guess it. I was really surprised by what they did and did not say.
In pretty much every case I would’ve given different clues, clues that to me would’ve been more obvious. But then isn’t that one of the hallmark differences between African and western, or at least American, cultures? Westerners/Americans tend to be direct while Africans are quite indirect.
So here are a few of the words I gave them and I want you to reply with the words and phrases you would use if you were playing a game where you had to get your teammates to guess it. Nothing is out of bounds except for the word itself. After I get your replies, I’ll tell you what my students said.
Saddle
Money
River
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