So when you teach ESL, it happens quite often that you need to draw a picture of what you are trying to explain. Last week our class was talking about different types of “trends” – trendsetters, economic trends, etc. I was struggling to explain the term “bucking the trend”. I had used words like “resisting”, “reversing”, but the students couldn’t wrap their minds around where the “bucking” part came from. I decided to use an illustration to show them:

It was SO bad, I had to photograph it. I’m an English teacher, not an Art Teacher!