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[nathanrutledge]

Last week, my school was closed for swine flu so all of the teachers put together homework for the kids to do while gone. My homework was a simple activity for vocabulary. Four topics were given. They had to choose 1 and write down a list of vocabulary words that would be used for that topic. The most unique answers would win a prize; unique meaning that no one else had the same word, or a really good definition.

These are some of the answers I got today...

Topic: Baseball
bet - a thing what we hit the ball (maybe Pete Rose should have used that line)
Topic - Shopping Mall
escalator - a machine that conveys people by stares (keep watching, they're almost there!)

Then there were some students who used their own topics. One girl wrote "Topic-Numbers, 1. One. In Korean, one is hana. 2. Two. In Korean, 2 is dul....." all the way to 10!
Another girl wrote "time - the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future."

Anyway, these all made me laugh in one way or another. Any questions you've asked that have gotten unique, creative (usually unintentionally) answers?

[proopser]

A profound realization about the definition of time.

[Goku]

[Underwaterbob]

In a writing assignment about what you would bring if you were stuck on a deserted island one student wrote "I would bring my soccer ball and play with myself everyday."

[Loudog]

I was asking questions concerning a dialogue where someone's dog got loose and destroyed another person's flower garden. I asked "What should Sujin do about his dog?" the answer I was looking for was, "keep him inside."
one of the students answered "eeh shourd eeet heez dogu!"
Not believing what I just heard, I asked "Beat his dog?"
and she said no, "Eeet heez Dogu" and then she made eating motions.
I, a naive first time ESL teacher new to Korea, did not realize that they actually still did that here. I thought it was just a western stereotype that the Yokels back home Joked about and was not still practiced except maybe in North Korea. When I asked the class how many had eaten dog, it was about half the class.
Now whenever I walk by the pet store window in my small town, I wonder if those little puppies that seem to be replaced almost daily, are going to be pets or dinner?

[reactionary]

homework - write two sentences with "I like" and two with "I don't like"

one boy's answer;

"I don't like blowjobs."

le sigh.

[Xuanzang]

[Loudog]

[Goku]

[reactionary]

[oskinny1]

[DorkothyParker]

My students were taking a pretty intense unit exam. This includes an essay portion. The topic was to write about something you learned from a friend. One girl wrote that she learned the answer for question #4 on that test.
They are brazen, these children!

[spicy]

[yingwenlaoshi]

[raclos234]

i picked about 7 words from a reading that my students needed to put into sentences for their homework.

one of the words was 'fist'. i told them was a fist was,showed them how to make one and told them when a person hits another person, they make a fist.

student's homework sentence: some boy fists me.