This is the second year I am in Juasseh and this is my second year training my students for the choral speaking competition. These students in the choral speaking team enjoyed choral speaking more than I have ever imagined. Probably it is the sense of achievement when they managed to remember the script. Probably because they can stand up proudly before their peers speaking in English. I don't know.
On Wednesday, I bumped into F on our way to the school hall for our practice later that afternoon. He was a shy boy when it comes to teachers and he barely said anything to me the whole year last year.
Therefore, I was delighted when he chatted up with me (He was nervous still but he was trying!. He told me about his concerns regarding memorizing the choral speaking script, which is twice the length of last year's script.
So I asked him if it was easier remembering lyrics of a song? And f he could do that, there should be no problem for our script as well.
He thought for a moment and agreed with me. But then he rebutted, saying that he never really listened to any English songs though. I was surprised.
"Oh wait, there is one English song that I know, it's "I wanna be a billionaire" by Bruno Mars! But that's about the only English song I listened to."
I almost melted. Because it was the only song that I taught the class last year. But we changed the lyrics from "I wanna be a billionaire" to "I wanna be intelligent" (copy & paste from Oga and Hawa's lyrics).
It's the little things sometimes.
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