Oh no!
This is, perhaps, one of the phrases I use the most in my classroom. Somehow it just seems to come up a lot, and the students think it is really funny. Remember the video with the little Japanese girl? Well, my students are kind of like that….just bigger. They not only laugh when I say it, they have started using it themselves. It makes me proud, actually.
Just a few days ago a student came up to me and asked if he could have a piece of chocolate. It is well known among the students that I often have chocolate with me to give to students if and when they talk to me. I am in no ways above bribery. When he asked, I didn’t happen to have any with me and I said, rather loudly, “Oh no!”
He looked at me, thought for a second and then, in front of the whole class and with his absolute loudest voice he said, “Oh shit!”
Just further proves that my students have a lot more english ability than they like to let on. Now I just have to figure out how to harness their abilities.
Skinner’s findings on irregular rewards are reinforced by your “Oh shit!” that was induced by withholding (forgetting) the candy. Might I add having been there, the student’s diction was EXCELLENT. A master stroke in teaching!
Yep! His pronunciation is perfect.
As it turns out, this student also loves to watch American movies. Perhaps he is picking up some of the more, shall we say colorful, language from there. . .