funny translation

Well had an interesting class today... as usual I had 'jelly knees" heading into the class... but needn't to have worried.... there were only five girls there today... Maria said many were away sick... We started the class of by playing "hangman". the girls hadn't played it before, so i told them the rules, did a few words with them, then let them all have a try. :) I made them sing the alphabet song too as they wrote out the alphabet in English for "hangman". It was great fun!! Then I showed them a news clip about a man falling in front of a train and someone saving him... discussed that for a bit...did a worksheet on storms in Europe, than asked them to write up a story based on one of the incidents mentioned in the worksheet. Some were very creative. Finished up by giving them a dialogue that my Ukrainian teacher had given me to translate into Ukrainian. It was such poor English that I wanted the students to see it and to translate it into better English. They laughed when they saw it and puzzled over it for awhile... but they finally figured it out.
Here is the dialogue... it is our dining room. She is opened at eight o'clock in the morning, and closes at eight o'clock in the evening. I breakfast I usually I at a home, and here to have dinner I I love in a dining room. I very like here. My friends have dinner here also. They also very like here. On dinner I take lettuce, soup, meat and juice or fruit compote. Near/beside there is a buffet. Here I take pastries, drink coffee, I buy apples or oranges. In a buffet always there are fruits. Sometimes I have a supper in a dining room. On a supper I like to eat a cheese with a sour cream and sparkles or to drink tea with pancakes. In a dining room I often I see John and Tom. They also have dinner and have a supper here. Now they in a buffet.
- Tome, that you will buy?

- I want to take milk and pastry and you?

_And I will take juice and potato.

- how many pastry costs?

It costs one hryvnya and twenty five copecks.

Take, please money. I thank.

Delicious.
Thought it might help the students understand the need to really understand English grammar... and they did appreciate it. Maria said it looked like a "google translator" job. I agreed!!!

more on articles

same class... same thing almost!! the dear things were all ready for me when I arrived... they had arranged their chairs so they could see my computer when i had it set up!! They are a smart bunch. We reviewed soem rules of when to use a, an, the, and when not to use them. Did a worksheet of 60 questions and they had them done in 15 minutes!!! So I gave them a second worksheet. We didn't have time to really finish this one.. it was on the news report of the bad weather in Europe. I think I may continue with it next week. As I want them to answer some questions on it. So today I showed a video on ESL articles... a ppp of the article, a worksheet on a memory stick. I know now the memory sticks can be used with their computers... I'm just not sure if I can get the test running for it. I want to do a test soon so I can do comparisons later on. No games today.... maybe next week!!! The students said they are writing exams right now... so may try a relaxing lesson next week??? the video used...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CiA9BCRPBk&feature=fvsr