{"id":1457,"date":"2017-04-25T14:04:56","date_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:04:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2017-04-25T14:04:56","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T14:04:56","slug":"here-be-dungeons-and-dragons-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/2017\/04\/25\/here-be-dungeons-and-dragons-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Here be (Dungeons and) Dragons 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Wrath of the Math<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Huh?&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Your points are 2 for taking a taxi, plus 1 if you told the driver where exactly to let you out. Then roll the D4. Add courage points to the D4. Divide them by 5.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I should have seen this coming. How often do you see any English for arithmetic in EFL materials? Never. How many of these ladies at Ladies&#8217; College of Suburban Tokyo (LCST) have played RPGs before? None, so the D4 terminology from the first lesson went in one ear and out the other of some students.<br \/>\nNext time I will provide a little bit of Focus on Form on the arithmetic terms and hope that our dining role plays go well, because other than the maths, it was a good lesson.<br \/>\nRead <em>Here be (Dungeons and) Dragons<\/em> previous &#8216;chapters&#8217;: <a href=\"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/12\/here-be-dungeons-dragons-1\/\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/20\/here-be-dungeons-and-dragons-2\/\">2<\/a><br \/>\nRead the future chapters <a href=\"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/2017\/04\/29\/here-be-dungeons-and-dragons-4\/\">4<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/14\/here-be-dungeons-and-dragons-5\/\">5<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/freelanceteacherselfdevelopment.wordpress.com\/2017\/05\/20\/here-be-dungeons-and-dragons-6-interlude\/\">6<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wrath of the Math &#8220;Huh?&#8221; &#8220;Your points are 2 for taking a taxi, plus 1 if you told the driver where exactly to let you out. Then roll the D4. Add courage points to the D4. Divide them by 5.&#8221; I should have seen this coming. How often do you see any English for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8,10],"tags":[60,118,170,234],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa34By-nv","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/getgreatenglish.com\/ftsd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}