This, I taught to my 7th graders. I see them right after lunch when our hearts are content. We were mechanically reviewing the previous day's lesson when I let out a bear of a yawn.
"What ever happened to naps," I inquired. "The union has failed us. In kindygarden, we had naps! but now?" "Workers of the world, we must unite and form an independent party, free from the capitalist, profit-driven, corporate elites. Only this way, shall we regain our siestas!"
Conveniently, we had been learning to form present tense sentences using 'to go,' therefore, it wasn't much of stretch to learn, "I'm going to take a nap." I spoke a bit of the siesta culture in Spain, had the students recite the phrase above and we proceeded to nap.
You see, language class is much more than simply making funny noises with your head; understanding the culture and knowing when to get some shut-eye are increasingly becoming ever important elements to succeeding in the global village.
p.s. - Hey, Linus, is "voy a echar una siesta" proper? If not, is it, at least, acceptable poetically? and what would be the proper construction?
p.p.s - Hey MC, yall nap in Brazil?
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As with most things in Brazil, anything goes. The unemployed take regular siestas, but my wife's family prefer to sleep late and rise around noon. I've tried taking a snooze in the afternoon, but wake up feeling queasy and disoriented - but that could be all the lunchtime beer. I once had a colleague who'd got little sleep after a night out on a bender, and when a student asked him one of those pedantic, irrelevant grammar questions he mumbled, "Let me just think about that a second," and rested his head on his folded arms on the desk. When he woke up all the students were just staring at him, and he didn't know how long he'd been asleep. He got away with it, but I wouldn't recommend it, personally...
Voy a echar una siesta sounds just dandy to me. So did you actually have the kids take a nap in class? That is not just brilliant pedagogics, and it goes beyond pure genius: it is love. Way to go, man.
you make me blush, stop it! :-D
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