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jindodog



Joined: 31 May 2007
Location: not seoul

PostPosted: Mon Nov 09, 2009 9:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Loudog wrote:
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?


You are a newb. Koreans still eat dogs, but only one breed of dog. It is raised for eating only. The pets in the shops are pets. It is 99% likely the girl was actually making a funny joke.
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seonsengnimble



Joined: 02 Jun 2009
Location: taking a ride on the magic English bus

PostPosted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

One student I had speaks excellent English, and he was reading a young adult novel with the word "portcullis."

For his homework, I gave him 10 difficult words from the chapter he was reading and had him write sentences using these words.

"portcullis: I *&#% in seonsengnimble's girlfriend's mouth under the portcullis."
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Underwaterbob



Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito

PostPosted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:14 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Slightly off-topic, from a pencil case I saw today: "Experience is a comb given to a man after he has gone bald." only with worse grammar that I can't remember.
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Goku



Joined: 10 Dec 2008

PostPosted: Tue Nov 10, 2009 6:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Underwaterbob wrote:
Slightly off-topic, from a pencil case I saw today: "Experience is a comb given to a man after he has gone bald." only with worse grammar that I can't remember.


Wow, that's awesome, I feel so much better about losing my hair.
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hapigokelli



Joined: 04 Aug 2009

PostPosted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:26 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

At my girl's High School the students were writing 1 minute speeches about any topic. A girl showed me hers and asked me to edit it for her on Tuesday. It wasn't as funny as it was just weird and disturbing:

"This is American society. The Pilgrims and the black slaves came to America and started the roots of America together."

"Bananas view Asian culture as inherently inferior; whites and Asians disdain bananas for such parochial attitude."

"I lived in British Columbia in Canada. It was considered as a "beautiful" place to live because there were two blacks in the entire school."

WHAT?!?!?
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simpleminds



Joined: 04 May 2006

PostPosted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 10:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had students choose two characters from a list and describe them.

For Superman. "He wears triangle panties."

Poor Superman.
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shifter2009



Joined: 03 Sep 2006
Location: wisconsin

PostPosted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Oral Examinations: Me: Can you describe yourself to me? Student: Long pause....Can I describe you? I can't think of anything....Me: Well, that's not really the question but ok....Student: You look like .....pig. Me:Excuse me? One more time? Student: You look like pig. Me: *Facepalm* Next!

Another occasion: If you had a pet dog, what would you name it?
Answer: Emergency food.
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ChopChaeJoe



Joined: 05 Mar 2006
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:53 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Me: What is something you would need in the desert.
Him: Iguana.
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Princess Soraya



Joined: 30 Oct 2008

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

More more more! I've never taught kids so this is really entertaining Very Happy
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beercanman



Joined: 16 May 2009

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I had kids who were required to keep a diary and make entries twice a week or so. One kid who could barely speak English beyond hello made a fine entry once about his visit to a museum. I forget the exact words, but part of it went like this:

"and the painting was sublime in its depiction, its radius about the same size as a circle.."

hmm, that was odd.
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Goku



Joined: 10 Dec 2008

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 5:37 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

shifter2009 wrote:

Another occasion: If you had a pet dog, what would you name it?
Answer: Emergency food.


Quote:
Me: What is something you would need in the desert.
Him: Iguana.


Why do I have the feeling you guys are teaching the same hungry kid?
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ulsanchris



Joined: 19 Jun 2003
Location: take a wild guess

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 7:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

years and years ago I had a group of grade one students make up a survery. They had to fill in which animals they liked. The classroom had some posters of different animals. The one poster had rooster on it labeled as a cock. So a girl student wrote that down on the paper and started asking all the other kids if they like cock.
"Tommy, do you like cock?"
"yes, I Like cock."
"I like cock, too."

Last year sometime a grade five girl wrote in her diary that she played with herself on the weekend. I told her that she should write by herself. She insisted on using with. I told her to please trust me and use by and that i didn't want to explain why. But she kept insisting the she played with herself. I gave up.
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rumdiary



Joined: 05 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I asked my students whats they would do if their parents left them home alone for the weekend. One boy said he would bring over every boy in his class and sleep with them.

Write a sentence using the word Gentle.
Usually my father is gentle, but when he drinks soju he is not.
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rumdiary



Joined: 05 Jun 2006

PostPosted: Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I asked my students whats they would do if their parents left them home alone for the weekend. One boy said he would bring over every boy in his class and sleep with them.

Write a sentence using the word Gentle.
Usually my father is gentle, but when he drinks soju he is not.
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andrewchon



Joined: 16 Nov 2008
Location: Back in Oz. Living in ISIS Aust.

PostPosted: Tue Nov 17, 2009 1:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Grade 6: Would you like to come to my house?
Me: Say "우리집에 올래?" in English.
Sab-Dol: Come in my homo!
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