One of the things I’ve been trying to do with my teachers is to contextualize our lessons – that is, using familiar situations and everyday vocabulary for Nicaragua, not the U.S. The old English book they used before had all this stuff about airplanes and stewardesses and stuff that 90% of my students will never encounter. This month in the 9th grade we’re teaching about transportation and my counterpart brought in what he thought was an appropriate list of means of transportation. I thought I had done a good job by adding things like horses and trying to figure out the best way to translate “microbus.” Well, Joel came in with a list that included not only horse but mule and donkey as well as cart.
This post will require a part two because this doesn’t even cover all the forms of transportation in this country, but here’s a start:
Guy riding a cow (not common, but it happens):
Guys hanging on the back of a truck (very very common):
Launching boats in Masachapa, which is still done by rolling them out on logs:
On the bus:
Caponera, the Nica equivalent of a rickshaw:
Small child on moto, and no, she doesn’t have her license:
Horse cart:
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