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Funny things your students say
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kangnamdragon



Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 3:50 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ryleeys wrote:
I teach alternatives for "beach" and "ship"


I have actually seen government signs in Korea which spell "warship" with a "t."
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pet lover



Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: not in Seoul

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 3:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote



Last edited by pet lover on Tue Jul 20, 2004 7:33 am; edited 1 time in total
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nateyb



Joined: 28 Dec 2003
Location: witness protection program (or Bundang)

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 5:23 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

have heard so many but I cannot remember any good ones except:

Last night, I got on a kid about speaking Korean.

T: Don't speak Korean.
S: I'm not Korean!!
T: (I give up) (Is McDonald's hiring back home?) (What am I doing this weekend?) (DON'T LAUGH, DON'T LAUGH) So... What country are you from?


Thought that was funny
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discostar23



Joined: 22 Feb 2004
Location: getting the hell out of dodge

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 5:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have a particularly bad student in my kindergarten class who likes to lie about things here is how it goes

Bad Student: Teacher, Billy Puck you! Teacher Me Billy Puck You
Me: Huh??
Another Student: Teacher Billy NO Puck You no Puck you!!
Me: What???
Entire Class: Billy No PUCK YOU!

Confused Confused Confused
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JacktheCat



Joined: 08 May 2004

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 6:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I teach a group of high school kids preparing for their university entrance exams.

Last week one of the them said: "If I fail the entrance exams I will kill myself."

The scary thing was the serious, determined look on his face.

Even scarier, was that the Korean teachers thought it was no big deal.
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Flex Bulkchest



Joined: 06 Jul 2003
Location: currently?...I don't know it's a room, with a computer....

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 9:12 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

a group of girls was telling me about their fellow students. i asked if they knew one girl and they said yes..but when i asked "do you like her" one of the girls jumped forward and said, "oh, teacher, i no lez" i thought that was pretty funny
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kangnamdragon



Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 11:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only strange thing I head today was "styroform" instead of "styrofoam"...not very funny though

But, speaking of funny, I hear many people say "funny" instead of "fun".

"I went to Thailand. It was funny."
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Zed



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street

PostPosted: Mon May 17, 2004 11:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kangnamdragon wrote:
The only strange thing I head today was "styroform" instead of "styrofoam"...not very funny though

But, speaking of funny, I hear many people say "funny" instead of "fun".

"I went to Thailand. It was funny."
It's hard to wean them of that one.
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peppermint



Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zed wrote:
kangnamdragon wrote:
The only strange thing I head today was "styroform" instead of "styrofoam"...not very funny though

But, speaking of funny, I hear many people say "funny" instead of "fun".

"I went to Thailand. It was funny."
It's hard to wean them of that one.



That and "I am very boring" ( meaning I am very bored)
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kangnamdragon



Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:03 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

I still laugh when I remember my friend said he wanted to drive a Vulva. Shocked Laughing
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Zed



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:06 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

peppermint wrote:
Zed wrote:
kangnamdragon wrote:
The only strange thing I head today was "styroform" instead of "styrofoam"...not very funny though

But, speaking of funny, I hear many people say "funny" instead of "fun".

"I went to Thailand. It was funny."
It's hard to wean them of that one.



That and "I am very boring" ( meaning I am very bored)
Or any of those ~ed ~ing adjectives really. I remember one student telling me his computer game character was excited. The book is interested. ......
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kangnamdragon



Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Kangnam, Seoul, Korea

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Zed wrote:
. I remember one student telling me his computer game character was excited. .....


Maybe it was "The Sims" Shocked
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dogbert



Joined: 29 Jan 2003
Location: Killbox 90210

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

peppermint wrote:
Zed wrote:
kangnamdragon wrote:
The only strange thing I head today was "styroform" instead of "styrofoam"...not very funny though

But, speaking of funny, I hear many people say "funny" instead of "fun".

"I went to Thailand. It was funny."
It's hard to wean them of that one.



That and "I am very boring" ( meaning I am very bored)


No, no, you're not "boring", you're very "exciting".
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Zed



Joined: 20 Jan 2003
Location: Shakedown Street

PostPosted: Tue May 18, 2004 12:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Soy aburrido o estoy aburrido?
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captain kirk



Joined: 29 Jan 2003

PostPosted: Fri May 21, 2004 6:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There were some middle school students and I looking at a handout which described how parents discipline their children in different countries. It spun on chirpily about how in Japan bad children are sent out of the house while in the West children are sent to their rooms to consider their 'sins' without dinner. I described how that's true of Canada, happened to me, and they listened with interest. Next came the handout's chirpy question, 'How do parents discipline children in YOUR country?' to which they said, amused and demonstrating vicious blows while smiling, 'they hit!'. So there are no trips to precious, liesurely solitary confinement Laughing for Korean kids with it settled then and there with a whack or two Shocked Laughing
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