Going Mad Means This :))

All of the students at the grades I see (the preschool children) have a problem with 'a'. They like it very much and use it everywhere. They say ‘I can see a three clowns’, ‘I can see a two flowers’ etc. during one of the courses, the teacher tried to correct this, result?? Let’s see :).

The teacher asked the students repeat the sentence ‘I can see three balloons’ as they circle the three balloons on their books. The students began: ‘I can see a three balloons’. The teacher repeated the correct type, it did not work. She told them that ‘You should say like this, I can see three balloons, not ‘a’ all right? Repeat after me, I can see three balloons’. At first, several students used the correct type, but the rest did not. And in the second repetition, the whole class said ‘a’. The teacher looked at us, about to go mad…

She explained them ‘All right, everybody, listen to me carefully please, you should not say ‘a’ there, because ‘a’ means ‘one’ but this is not ‘one’ this is 2three’ ok? You should say ‘I can see three balloons’’ ‘now repeat after me, I can see three balloons’. The students said ok, to everything, but when it came to repetition part, all of them used ‘a’.

Then, at last, the teacher explained everything in Turkish. The students said all right, and began to repeat correctly. Then, one of them said ‘a’, in the following repetition several of them used ‘a’, and in the third one, all of them.

Just think about the teacher :) …