This place drives me nuts sometimes. As an English lesson I prepared a simple list of questions in large print. Easy things like where will you go after school today?
I also put example answers on the whiteboard, and told them over and over, as did the Thai assistant in Thai to think and put their own answers, not just copy my answers, but to THINK.
One question was; Have you even gone to Malaysia, and the example answers said "yes or no". After getting most papers back in the first class with "yes or no" as their answer, I wrote yes or no in blue and in red "put 1 only do not write yes or no."
12 year old children who have had 8 years of English and had this explained by a Thai assistant, yep most of the papers came back saying the exact statement above. Some of the girls even wrote the first part in blue and 1 only do not write "yes or no" in red.
I was also amazed how many Thai children were born in New York in 1958.
I give up.