A few weeks ago the lesson was on music. We talked about different genre's of music and different instruments. We also talked about ways to talk about music such as "I like the chorus." or "I like the lyrics in the song." "I really like the beat, but I don't like the vocals." We used other words like: tempo, verse, chorus, lyrics, artist, and "How does it go?" (to question which song someone is talking about). I used Justin Beibers "Baby" (they love pop music) as a reference and played part of the song then used the different vocab words to talk about the song.
We also went on to talk about instruments and I tried to explain the 3 types of guitars: acoustic, electric, and bass. It was easy to mouth/sing the electric and bass but the acoustic guitar was difficult. Then, I saw a guitar over on the side and decided to use it to use it as a reference. They then asked if I could play? (Chinese stereotype of Americans - all of them can play the guitar). I told them I was learning. I asked who's it was and Yvonne in the back raised her hand, "YAAAY" they all cheered, "Play a song!" I laughed and asked if she wanted to. She said next week, so I said, "ok, I'll remember that and next week you can play something for us."
The next week came and I forgot which class we had talked about someone playing and I forgot who it was who was going to play. I forgot, they didn't. They had prepared. So after the break in class, we had a quick demonstration by Georginia and Yvonne.
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