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[captain kirk]

These middle schoolers had all read the abbreviated Robinson Crusoe. I asked 'how do people become cannibals?' (Crusoe battled cannibals in the book) and a guy said, 'they didn't study'.

[the saint]

Gave some 8 year olds a spelling test the other day.

Under a pic of some vegetables one kid wrote

"best balls"

[the saint]

We had this exhibition of kids book illustrations at our school recently and a teacher created a kind of quiz for kids. They went round looking for clues in the pics and writing the answers down on a worksheet.

Anyway, one kid comes up and says

"Teacher, where c r a p and p i s s?"

Teacher:

"Where c r a p and p i s s, teacher, where?"

Turns out the worksheet is asking for a picture with a crab and fish in it

[jajdude]

Kid writes a test today. Says to me, "Teacher, me. 100 yes?" I look it over, see a few mistakes and nod my head no. She goes, "Why??"

I thought it was funny. (Less than 100 is bad?)

[captain kirk]

Middle school and I ask them, one by one, 'what do you want to be?'. A girl says, 'I want to be a pet designer'. I kind of knew what she meant but asked, 'you will clone pets?' and she said 'uhm humm'. Remember the movie bladerunner and the pet hawk on the stand in the great hall at the corporation, handled by the replicant who doesn't know she's a replicant who Harrison Ford ends up going with.

[Corporal]

On Thursday, one of my middle school boys, normally very reticent and not at all talkative, jumped up in the middle of class and made for the door. When I opened my mouth to demand, "Hey, where are you going?" he replied, "Nature calls me," and darted out. No one else in the class had a clue what he said, and didn't understand why I started laughing.

[Demophobe]

"lend body woman" ...they didn't know "prostitute".

"Explode gas from body down" ...they didn't know "pass wind" or "fart".


"Old lunch come back out" ...they didn't know "vomit".

Some funny stuff....I should keep a journal...these are just the ones I can remember.

[saw6436]

I have always liked the Kitchen/Chicken substitution. Never fails to amuse me.
When my wife and i first got married we visited my parents house in the states. Naturally my wife was quite nervous and really desired to make a good impression. My mother is showing my wife around the house and making general chit chat. And so far Mi-Hyun is doing well keeping up her end of the conversation.
The guided tour ends with my mother explaining about all the changes she has done to the kitchen. My wife smiling happily compliments my mother's taste and finishes up with "I really love your chicken".
Have heard that substitution dozens of times always cracks me up.

[JacktheCat]

A funny thing happened in my class last week ...

Student X: "Teacher, teacher .. he maricone."
Me: " ..ah...what did you say?"
Student X: "student Y ...he muy muy mierda."

Turns out the student was a fan of the movie, Once Upon a Time in Mexico and had memorized all the swear words from it.

Korea never ceases to surprise me.

[Crois]

Teacher are you Korean because you can talk Korean?

Then later to Korean teacher, Are you American because you can talk English?

[katydid]

We were working on talking about future plans in class. So I asked my kids what were they going to do this weekend, and heard them out. Then I told them I was going to a dance this weekend and had a really nice dress and really nice shoes. (Can you tell I am excited?)
They thought I said I was getting married! And they applauded me for about 5 minutes straight. Rather loudly, too.
I love my girls sometimes.
Then I corrected them, and they still applauded! I think they were excited by the prospect of seeing Katy-teacher in a dress as I usually don't wear them to school and said if I could, I would show them pictures of me later.

[ryleeys]

I got a new student today that is the daughter of a Chinese immigrant. She asked me if I spoke Chinese because I greeted her in Chinese. I said, "bu shi" meaning "no". The Korean student pickes up on this and says, "Teacher, you like Bush-ee?" I said "no, not really." To which she responds, "Teacher, Bush-ee is retard?"

I fell over laughing.

God that made my day.

[captain kirk]

The word in Side by Side 3 was 'childhood' (orin shi jol) so I asked them what was the best thing about their childhood. Then about the worst. A 12 year old girl who's short said, 'the worst thing about my childhood was going to amusement parks and being too short to get on the rides'.
In a class of 13 year old girls studying Harry Potter a new arrival asks, 'teacher, how old are you?'. 'One hundred', I said. The older sister of the above girl quips, 'you look two-hundred'.
There's a fourteen year old girl I see three hours a week one on one. I asked her about her Grandfather. She described how he walks one step for her three. She'll turn around realizing she has lost him and go back to get him. He'll be toddling along (to use her English level) 'Oh sky, good sky'. Then 'oh, tree, good tree'. I asked, 'Is he slow because he's old and not strong?'. She said no, it's just that he takes it slow while savouring. A month ago I was walking to work in a hurry and saw an old Korean woman doing the slow and savouring walk 'admiring' with lingering looks all the spring greenery out front of the apartment rows.