For the listening comprehension with the Tuesday group this week, I was telling a story featuring an English friend's experience in an anarchists' bookshop in the Angel (a district in north London) in the 80s.
The friend's name is Guy. One of the students (English, in her 80s) immediately said, "How can a person be called Guy?"
I replied, "You will have to ask his parents."
At least she posed the challenge in Chinese, I noted at the time. So maybe I should go and find more material that the students will object to, to make them speak more in Chinese...
I've been calling this group of students anarchistic (more in a separate blog), so her challenge was most in character.
It was also most appropriate that she should've been making the challenge (which I interpret as being done in an anarchistic spirit) about a story set in an anarchists' bookshop.
(London, 2026)
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