Helpful Household Tips from Chinese University Students
Do you want to know one of the fastest ways to wrap your head around a new country and culture? Teach there. Let me show you some things I learned today whilst marking my students’ process essays.
How to wash your hair
First, you need to buy shampoo, wash basin and face cloth at the super market. Second, open the bottle of shampoo and put it beside you. The next step is put half a pot of hot water to wash basin when the water is full. Please soaked the face cloth. At the same time, lower your head, use the face cloth wet your hair. Afterward, besmear shampoo in your hair and besmear it equably in between the hair. Accomplish it. Use the hot water washed shampoo away. Please repeat it twice. At last, blow dry your hair by hair dryer.
-Zebin
How to wash clothing
Firstly, put some detergent to the cold water and let it melt in the water. Secondly, put the clothes into the detergent water and let them soak in it for about half an hour and let the detergent work well. Then, rub the clothes with hands from the dirtiest parts to the whole clothes. Next, dry clothes by twisting from the detergent water. After this, wash clothes 2-3 times with clean water till the water is clean. Finally, hang the clothes up and let them dry.
-Eric
How to cook fish
Firstly, the fish is washed and then put in the dish and then the oil and fish is put into the furnace. For a minute, the fish is turned over until you small the good smalling. Secondly, the spices is put like wine, start, burden and son. Thirdly, the fish is softed. Finally the fish is dished up.
-Ally
How to stew chicken broth
Beforehand, go to the market and buy a chicken. First of all, wash clean the chicken, mushroom, and peels off the skin of the spring bamboo. After this, keep mushroom. Use heat opens water to hang about five minutes. And than spring bamboo becomes little slice from deep. It boils five minutes in water. It drags to rise release beside. At last keep water in marmite shaokais. Release chicken, boil very much. Release spring bamboo and mushroom again, add salt, season with monosodium glutamate. Go to chicken ripe directly.
-Tiffany
How to cook the tomato with eggs
Firstly the eggs tomatoes and some onion is got ready. Then all things is wished. Secondly, the eggs is put into the bowl then the tomatoes and onion is cut. Thirdly the onion and eggs is put into the furnace and turn over again and again. Finally the food is dished up.
-Elaine
How to put the giraffe in the fridge
To begin with, open the fridge. Later put the elephant out. At the same time, put the giraffe in. In the last stage, close the fridge.
-Raphael
Did your student really write a process paragraph on how to put a giraffe in the fridge?! Wow. That student deserves an A! LOVE these by the way….
Why yes, he did! I have awesome kids this year. I actually like going to work. Kinda. The 6am wake ups make me ache but they are only twice a week this term. But yeah, awesome kids. Another boy in the other class actually wrote an even longer process text about getting that initial elephant into the fridge. Apparently it was much more complicated.
Terrific assignment. Seriously. What level class is this?
I love “besmear” and am going to start using it regularly.
I thought ‘besmear’ was an awesome word choice too- hence, putting his up at the top of the list.
The level is mixed, though it should be between IELTS 4.5-5.5 (about low pre-intermediate- intermediate). Most are at the bottom end of that, if not lower. Poor things. It’s a struggle for both myself and them. I teach EAP- aka academic skills for students in a joint venture university program (2 years in Shanghai, 2 years in Melbourne).
Oh man, these are brilliant. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have to go accomplish my coffee.
I’ve already accomplished two coffees this morning and I plan to totally besmear my hair with shampoo soon. A very productive day.