Miguel Angel on Food

Since I last wrote about my student Miguel Angel (see previous post here), I've gotten a few more private class students, including a couple of dynamic brother/sister duos and an adorable English-speaking three-year-old. Miguel Angel, however, continues to be my most entertaining student. I see most of my students on a weekly basis, but with Miguel Angel and his brother, Jesus, I come twice a week for a couple hours. I feel like I know a lot about them now - like Jesus' love of fantasy novels (especially ones that involve time travel), or how Miguel Angel likes chorizo and ham, but not bacon, and how he loves all types of cheese, even though he can't name any of them besides Manchego.  

Today while studying for an English test, Miguel Angel came up with some pretty amazing drawings:

Just a few things I'd like to point out: 

1. The face at the top is "Food-Man." As the name indicates, he is a man made entirely of food. Those are "biscuits" (or cookies, in American English) for ears, lettuce for hair, eggs for eyes, bacon for nose, ketchup for mouth, and an ice cream cone as a body.

2. In the bottom right corner, you'll see a Martian holding cheese and bacon. Enough said.

3. Towards the bottom of the list of foods on the left you can see Miguel Angel's first attempts at writing "juice." The first one is "chus" (him trying to sound it out) and the second "lluasi" (him trying to write letters that I pronounced in English; J-U-I-C-E became LL-U-A-S-I). English is hard! 

4. See the ham? He draws a pretty mean ham.

After the drawing and writing practice we played Hangman and then sang a couple rounds of "Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes" just for good measure. On days like this I think I have a pretty fun job. Thanks Miguel Angel! 

Hungry Monkey

My student Miguel Angel is so fun to teach. After his lesson on Wednesday he let me keep this piece of paper with his drawings and practice English sentences.  His next test at school will be about describing people and feelings, so that's what we were practicing.

The column on the left was a spelling test. I read the words and he had to write them. And since I know he likes to draw I had him draw the little pictures of each word to make sure he knew what they meant. He did pretty well, but I think originally thought "thirsty" meant "feverish", so you'll see the little crossed out guy who is sad with spots on his face.

Miguel's favorite animal is the monkey, so that's why he chose to draw the monkey eating pizza. Such a good artist! 

After our fun with spelling and drawing I taught him Jingle Bells to sing for his parents. I think it'll take him a few more lessons to really memorize it... Not sure the meanings of all the phrases will stick with him though. A one horse open sleigh? That's a tough one. 

Again, can't believe I get paid to hang out with this little guy, he's such a hoot!