Spanish teachers, has this ever happened to you? A student asks you how to translate some really obscure word into Spanish? Then this is the comic for you:
How do you normally respond to these questions?
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If it’s something really obscure I don’t know I will admit to students that I don’t know every word just like an English teacher doesn’t know every English word.
Other times I challenge students to use the dictionary and look it up themselves.
I too am honest with my students. If I don’t know something, I tell them I will have an answer for them the following day.
I have my computer on all the time so I can quickly look things up in my favorite online dictionary ( http://bilinguish.wordpress.com/2010/02/02/best-online-dictionary/ ). But if we don’t have time, it’s an idiom or something that would require internet research, we make a “teacher’s homework” list on one side of the board. If they come with the words defined next class and I’ve forgotten, they get an extra point. Our most recent list, during a clothing unit, included “turban, fishnets, tighty whities.”