Interview with an old potato

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A few years ago when I was teaching English students at the LMU Munich, my students told me how in a creative writing class, Gill Woodman, head of Sprachpraxis there, had given them a bag of potatoes and told them to select one and imagine its personality, and then write its biography. Such a great idea. Imagination + humor.

Remember Mr. Potato Head? My dad bought me the game when I got my tonsils out, at about the age of 5.  He would have giggled with me about this silly video – could be a take on Gill’s assignment for Very Young Learners: interview a potato.

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