Open Class

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 ESL in China is partly about teaching English, but largely about having fun and playing games. Schools are often businesses, and the customers are parents. Make those kids happy. If they don't learn much English, who cares? The grades can be faked anyway.

So in this episode here are a few games I invented in school, usually without much planning (which is probably self-evident). Fun times had by all!

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