In the tradition of April Fool's Day today, we gave our Grade 3s a test. It started with very easy words like dog, cat and scared, but quickly devolved into tintinnabulation, acetylsalicylic acid, antidisestablishmentarianism and anarchy (I don't know why, I couldn't think of any more long words off the top of my head). They kids were really very upset with us, as although we assured them that these words were in last week's homework they really didn't remember ever meeting them before. The last two words of the series were April and First, so they quickly got the joke.
I had a class with them later in the day and they got their revenge: Megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért. This word seems to be a satirised play on the over-usage of prefixes and suffixes in Hungarian and is thought to mean something like "because of your continuous pretending to be undesecratable".
Nice.
- Daniel
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