English Lessons Resume in the Local Village
Posted by Bradley Kinsey on July 17th, 2011Through our days documenting the village neighboring Panigram, we have come to know many of the local children quite well. As we walked through the village, they would follow us energetically and inquisitively, watching us sketch, listening to us speak, and examining every little move we made. The children would point to animals, plants, food, or anything else that might (or might not) interest us, and relay its name to us in Bangla, laughing at our poor pronunciation a few times until we said the word correctly. In exchange, we would teach them the word in English, which they were so anxious to discover. These interactions were the first days of our English lessons, which have now officially located to the village school on Friday mornings.
We taught the kids the names of the body parts by singing "Heads, Shoulders, Knees, and Toes".
Mikey Leung