All in a day's work

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I teach English to adults who don't speak very much English. In case you are somehow unaware of that. Today we were reviewing body parts. After covering ankle, knuckle, . . the whole bit, the students sat down and I said, I realize I haven't told you everything. A student said, Yeah, we realized that too. Should I? Do you want me to? I think I'm going to be red.

Come on. If Michelle Fuller isn't going to teach her students the fun words, who will? So I did. I wrote on the board, Woman and Man. Under them I wrote vagina, breasts, then penis, testacles. Then I looked up testacles in the dictionary and changed it to testicles. I just don't read and write about these things very often. Then I wrote down circumcision and condom. Students called out other words that they knew, checking to see if they were the same. Pussy. Dick. Titties. Boobies. It was good stuff. They weren't sure what testicles were right off, so students called out descriptions. One woman said, the two tomatoes. I'm glad I'm not married to her husband.

So I classified the other words for them; a prostitute maybe says pussy, but if you like the woman, you shouldn't say pussy. Dick, people actually say that one. Not doctors, but other people. My students have learned most of these words from their teenagers and have no reference for knowing which words are the right words and which aren't. It was fun. I didn't get into words for sex, but the person they are having sex with probably speaks their language.