school daze: boring

today we were reviewing the words, "great, cool, awesome, okay, not bad, terrible, awful" and practicing saying what we thought of things.

the chart had classical music, basketball and music videos. they were supposed to add two more things. sports, food, anything. they were then supposed to fill in the chart for themselves. then they had to ask their partner, "what do you think of ____?" and fill in the boxes. simple enough.

two smart boys that sit in the front have slowly gone from active and participating to being cheeky and downright pissed at me that i would even dare ask them questions. they didn't add two more things and wrote, respectively, "boring" and "okay" for the three provided topics.

i said, "hey (boy's name), what do you think of basketball?"
"i think it's boring."

"what do you think of music videos?"
"i think it's boring."

he's on the baseball team and i know he loves baseball. so,

"what do you think of baseball?"
"i think it's boring."

sigh.

at least he's got decent pronunciation.