One, Two Buckle My Shoes.

I was teaching the kids about the differences among mammals, reptiles, amphibians and insects.

"Insects do not bleed like mammals and reptiles. Give me a few examples of insects."

"Teacher! Ants teacher!"

"Teacher! Bees!"

"Teacher! How about mosquitoes? Got blood what!"

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"In order to promote burning or to start fire, the environment you are in must contain oxygen. Without oxygen, you can't start the fire. There is no oxygen in the outerspace and many other planets, so you can't start any fire. But then again, there's no living creatures there that need to do so anyway."

"Teacher, how about the sun?"

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They are only in Year 3 so I can't start telling them other complicated knowledge.

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Do you know what's the meaning of 'evacuation'?

So I went on explaining the differences of evacuation for flood victims, fire victims and so on and went to the subject of emergency landing for airflights.

"I'm sure you have been on an airplane right?"

"No teacher."

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"Thamu, what does your parents do?"

"Father, lorry driver. Mmmmmother cook at home."

"Kanesh and Thievi?"

"Father, toll. Mother kedai runcit."

"Ali? How about your parents?"

"Father with TNB, mother housewife."

...... I was so humbled, yet their parents pay the tuition centre RM70 per month just on Public Speaking and another RM90 per month for 3 other subjects.

so damn pressured to make sure they can finally speak simple conversational English in 4 months' time. These are Form 1 students who still can't differentiate singular verbs against plural.

Owwhh.... 40-50 students in a govt school classroom just cannot work!