Coke light

On Fridays I rotate two classes with a French English teacher. That is to say, Emilie is a French woman who speaks nearly flawless English. We divide a full CM2 class and each teach half and then switch kids. She plans the lessons, so all I have to do is show up, which is really a nice treat on Fridays.

The story here is last Friday's lesson on synonyms and antonyms. Emilie had me distribute a crossword puzzle with clues (and answers) such as "opposite of big" (small), "opposite of ugly" (beautiful). Unfortunately, the worksheet was well above their current level of English so we had to do the crossword puzzle as a group. We started with the words they were acquainted with (big) and moved onto harder ones, giving the definition for the clue word and then thinking of the asnwer before using both in a sentence.

I had saved "opposite of light" (heavy) for one of the last, thinking they wouldn't know the word at all. I was surprised when nearly all the kids' hands shot up to define "light." The consensus: "Sans sucre (Without sugar)!!!"