English Mutterings

Some of my students participated in a 1 Day English Camp last week.  There were 7th, 8th and 9th graders.  The activity that I did focused on practicing writing, so each student started with a piece of paper with the first sentence of a story written on it.  Every student had to write 2-3 sentences, then pass the story to their neighbor, who wrote 2-3 more sentences, and so on.  Some of the stories turned out to be pretty entertaining by the end.  Below are a few of my favorites.  (I've made some corrections in parenthesis to help you understand.)

"Once upon a time there was a mean witch who lived in Chiang Rai."
She is old and fat.  She look like a pig.  She has short legs.  She like to go to sea because she like to swim.  She like to eat the seafood.  One day, she went to find a big fish in the middle of the sea.  Suddenly, a shark swims near her and then she's eaten by shark.  She (does) not die because she has a magic, so she (makes) the shark become a handsome prince and they are marry.  One day the shark is falling in love with the mermaid.  The witch (is) very angry and (makes) the shark to be a girl but (the) mermaid is lesbian.  The witch scream very loud and (creates) an earthquake and a tsunami wave.  Everything is clear and the witch (goes) back to (the) Magic World and eats Peter (a student in the class) then dies on fire.

"Once upon a time there was a mean witch who lived in Chiang Rai"
She has long nose, black hairs, thin black eyes and she is short.  She don't like any flowers (that have) many colors, but she like black color.  She like to go to Central Plaza everyday.  She like to make everything dark.  One day she go to the forest and she find flowers (that) have many colors.  Suddenly her nose become so bigger.  She's very angry and went to the hospital.  She saw a handsome doctor and fall in love with him.  She give the doctor poison then she (makes) the doctor into a gecko because she don't like doctor with another girl.  Then her husband is a gecko forever.

"Once upon a time there was a mean witch who lived in Chiang Rai"
The witch is a beautiful woman but she has ugly nose.  One day, she drive a car and has an accident, and her nose is broken.  She (is) very sad and cries everyday.  Her friend visit her and see her cry.  Her friend advice her to have surgical operation, so that she would be more beautiful and have many boys love her.  Every day many boys come to her.  She love everybody and she flirt (so) much and make every boy angry with her.  The next day everybody go to kill her.  The witch go to space and talk to the alien to come help her.  But the alien don't help her and don't know the way.  And she doesn't have food, water, oxygen and she dies in space.  Everyone forgets her.

"Once upon a time there was a mean witch who lived in Chiang Rai"
One day she is very hungry.  She go to eat the food at Big C.  She wants to study in Damrong School.  Teachers in Damrong School tell her (she) cannot study in Damrong School because (she) is an old girl.  The witch thinks of how to become a young girl again.  She forgets something.  She has magic.  Then she comes back to school again and she change her body (to) a young girl.  And then she can study in school, but she (is not smart.)  And she comes to school but doesn't have a uniform to wear.  And she is sad and she goes to the river and jumps into the river and dies.

"Once upon a time there was a mean witch who lived in Chiang Rai"
The witch like to kill people in Chiang Rai.  And one day she catch the King of Chiang Rai.  She ate the king.  People in Chiang Rai want to kill her.  But Chiang Rai people die and there is one boy who (doesn't) die because he hid in the sky.  (The witch) changed her body to a bird.  Nobody knows the bird is a mean witch.  Then an airplane fly in the sky and kill the mean witch.  So, the witch die.  And the sky change color to black.  People in Chiang Rai are very happy.  The sky changed to color pink.