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asams · Joined: 17 Nov 2008

So I just wanna see where this goes

Yesterday in one of my classes, while I was looking down, a kid apparently threw something at another. Of course the kids started trying to tell me what he did but couldn't say it. I sat there waiting on them to find the right words when finally a kid shouted "Teacher! He go 'Fire in the HOLE!'" and made the grenade throwing motion. I had to stop and laugh for a minute

What's the funniest thing one of your students has said?

Straphanger · Joined: 09 Oct 2008 Location: Chilgok, Korea

Thedudeabides · Joined: 15 Jun 2008

losing_touch · Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Location: Ulsan - I think!

I had to laugh one day when I was teaching and a kid was speaking rather loudly in Korean. I stopped the class and looked right at him. I sternly asked him "Why are you speaking when I am teaching? Why are you speaking in Korean?" A very long moment elapsed while the student contemplated his answer and tried to formulate a response in English.

He simply looked at me and broke the silence by saying "Teacha, I'm Korean!" It was quite funny. I couldn't keep a straight face and discipline when right out the window when I erupted with laughter.

I guess you just had to be there .....

laserprinter · Joined: 18 Jun 2008 Location: Seoul, South Korea

"Teacher me very ouchy"

and

"my guitar me have" (he was trying to say he wants me to give him my guitar)

sarbonn · Joined: 14 Oct 2008 Location: Michigan

Up until recently, I didn't think Korean kids were capable of saying anything other than: "Teecha, we play Hangman!"

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I work as an online editor for Koreans' writing.

-"i can be a person who kills two births with one stone" (Obviously meant "two birds," but this metaphor works even better.)

-"There are foreshore. We caught small crap. My children played so hard. But there was not many crap." (about a trip to the beach, where you can see carp.)

-"Today was raining. I don't like rain so much.
Because I feel not so good about that day's humidity. My jeans are wet. My bag and pipe is wet, too." (Bag and pipe? I hope this person is a Scotsman.)

-"There is a small garden in their back side."

-"I stole the chickennuggit from my roommate. While I fled from him I choked on chicken."
(This was a translation drill. The original phrase was, of course, "I choked on the chicken nugget.")

-"Ironically, the most expensive things in my car are my Methmatics books, which are not stolen. That thief may not be a budding Mathematician." (This was also a translation drill. I would imagine a methmatics book would be valuable. Oddly, the student didn't have any trouble spelling "mathematician.")

-"I work more than 40 hours a week, take an evening course. Meanwhile, my bone is growing." (I really can't explain this one.)

-"This is the incontinent truth that we don't even feel like thinking about." (Inconvenient truth?)

-"Sometime, some testes will be come to them." (The student was talking about tests.)

-"Today wasn't a very good day because I have 4 testes today." (I warned you, didn't I?)

-"In a computer game, you will have to manage a group of slacker employees at a reproduction shop." (This was a translation drill. The "reproduction shop" was supposed to be a copy shop, not some sort of sex venue.)

-"I have a dream. Actually serevral dreams.
Those are the followings. My dreams of 2008!! There are 4 goals. First, lose my weight about 7kg to be able to wear mini skirt. Second, enter the graduate shool for English translation. Third, meet my ideal half who make true and pure love with me." (I didn't think she could top the Martin Luther King quote, but that last line made it all worthwhile.)

macaronique · Joined: 14 Nov 2007

oh s**t

Fu** you

I try to tell them to stop, but cause american movie does it they think its acceptable

They actulally asked me what oh sh** means lol

Jeff's Cigarettes · Joined: 27 Mar 2007

When a student wanted to go to the toilet he said "Teacher, I'm dung...i'm dung" Laughing

BreakfastInBed · Joined: 16 Oct 2007 Location: Gyeonggi do

My 6th grade boys yell "penn-iss attack" and punch each other in the crotch. Cracks me up. The same group likes to mistranslate things and "help" one of their buddies with no English ability. Q. What did you do yesterday? A. My mother is a beggar. Hilarity ensues.

clay4bc · Joined: 01 May 2004

Student: "Teacher, I just pooped my pants"
Me: "QUICK! GO TO THE BATHROOM!!!"
Student: "Why? I already pooped."
Laughing

danby_ll · Joined: 06 Dec 2006

My students make me laugh everyday, but recently:

While studying past tenses of irregular verbs, I asked them to make a sentence with "got".

9-year-old boy: "I got a bad boy."

No idea.

Another time, with a more advanced class we were reviewing vocabulary by playing pictionary. The word was "striped" so the student drew a striped sweater. The other students couldn't remember the word so I started writing it out one letter at a time. The shouting of "STRIP!!", "STRIPPER!!!" soon started.

Ultimo Hombre · Joined: 13 Oct 2008 Location: BEER STORE

Nothing they say is funny or cute anymore. Same regurgitated joke from the funny kid who said it 6 months ago. I hear a new comment about once in a blue moon. These kids went full retard years ago.

Phant0m · Joined: 15 May 2008 Location: in your mind~

Slightly off topic, but the best thing I've heard so far is from a really cute teacher today after the graduation ceremony:

"You eat out me and other teachers for lunch?"

My heart skipped a beat, and then I realized what she was actually saying.

IamBabo · Joined: 16 Jun 2005

I teach high school and this girl was reaching aggressively in the back of a boy's pants, I think he took something from her, not sure. So, he says "Teacher, Help! She won't stop grabbing my ass!"

It was funny as hell. I know I should have disciplined her, but I was dying laughing.