On Sundays I teach English at a private school for Chinese students who want to learn English. When teaching a unit of the curriculum called "Old and New" the students were told to put the following in order from old to new:
- CD
- Record
- Mp3
- Cassette
- Mini-disk
This prompted the following conversation:
Student A: "Teacher, what's a record?"
Me: "It's like a big black CD with lines cut into it. A needle in the record player rests in the lines, or grooves, and reads the music to play. When I was a little girl we only used records to listen to music."
Student B: "Oh yeah, I saw one of those things in the antiques market."
2 comments:
Yeah... my daughter found a cassette in my desk a couple weeks ago. She shook it and poked at the brown reel and said, "Why isn't this tape sticky?"
I said, "It's not sticky tape - it's like an old-timey CD."
And she laughed and said, "Uh-uh! This wouldn't even fit in a CD player!"
Right.
I saw an 8 track player the other day and was totally amazed!
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