The Joys of Teaching English

At the English camp I am currently working at, I am teaching a class of six boys. Our team name is The Wise Dragons. Why there are just six students in my class, and they are all boys is another story for another time.

Anyway, I gave them an assignment today and thought I would share the results.

The Assignment: Write a story about a wise dragon. (the idea was that we might be able to present the story as a skit for the rest of the camp.)

I had them work in pairs and this is what they came up with. (Other than some punctuation, I have left them unedited.)

Story #1

Wise Dragon is killer. People is scard. Wise, wise dragon like people meet. One day, wise dragon fight a people. People's die. wise dragon eat a people meat. Wise dragon die because wise dragon ate a knife. today people ate yummy dragon's meat.

Story #2

Wise dragon is live in sky. He is very big and long and very scared. One man go to the sky and visit a wise dragon house and fight a dragon. the winner is a man! Dragon is a pie and man a hero. The End

Story #3

Long long ago one dragon lived in Korea. He is very smart and very wise. So many peoples say "That is wise dragon." many people like him. Wise dragon is very happy and he want to help another peoples. One day one man visit the wise dragon.

A man said, "Wise dragon, I have a question. What is this pencil?" Wise dragon said, "This pencil is blue and white pencil." "Oh! Thank you wise dragon," said a man.

Many people loved wise dragon, but one knight don't like wise dragon. He want to kill him. the knight visit bad dragon. he said, "Hi Bad Dragon, I want to kill wise dragon. Can you help me?"

Bad dragon don't like wise dragon too. And he want to kill teh wise dragon too so he says "Sure, I help you." The knight and bad dragons go to teh wise dragon's cave. And knight say, "Wise dragon, your a very bad and I don't like you. I kill you." Knight and bad dragon attack to wise dragons. They are fight.

But wise dragon win, because wise dragon is very smart and very strong. The bad dragon died. But knight is sfe. He say, "I'm so sorry." Wise dragon forgiveness him and healing the knight. Wise dragon fly to the sky. He is smiling. The end.