Korean Job Discussion Forums

[oneiros]

I usually have a new one every day, but I don't remember them for more than a few hours.

I had a great answer on an oral test today, just because it was so honest.

Background: We just finished studying a story this month that explained how a movie is made, and all the different people who work on it (ie directors, producers, technicians.)

Question: What job would you like to have on a movie set?
Answer: I want to be an actor.
Question: Why?
Answer: Because I can't remember the names of any other jobs.

I gave her full points anyway.

[polarbearbrad]

Well from ones that I can remember right now and yes some of those are truely inspired.

We asked a student who painted the Mona Lisa he replied: Leonardo DiCaprio.

I asked a student on a test: Write a sentence using the word never. Her reply: I never die in school.

This is the all time number one and sadly I can't claim it as my own but here goes:

On a test what do you like to eat, a little girl wrote:

I like to eat c0ck. The other teacher brought it in, showed it around, and then corrected her with the word chicken!

Aren't our kids precious?

Cheers,
Polarbearbrad

[turtlepi1]

We are working on a story called "The Night Sky" with elementary students...

Of all the planets they could have used...(minus youranus) they chose the planet Venus...(wonderful choice for the Asian market where there is no "V" sound...)

Get your students to say Venus a few times...

BUT WAY BETTER AND SOMETHING YOU MAY BE ABLE TO DUPLICATE but preferably only with adult classes you you are very familiar with.

I was teaching colors to my grade 6 class. Mostly an exercise to get them talking out loud (as part of a bigger exercise...)

Anyway, they are listing off red, blue green...and one girl says (sorry I can't remember the Korean word right now.it's like namsan or something like that...it is a dark blue..) I say what is that? She tries to explain but can't. All of the children say "Man color". I am curious so I had the girl the trusty translator.

She hands me back a screen with "sodomy, buggery" on it.
I am completely shocked and to be quite honest freaked out, then I think she must have mistyped. I put it away until after class. I am sure the students were wondering why I looked so disturbed.

I asked my Koteacher about the color (thats how I found out it was dark blue) I asked him to put it in the translator and it came back with the same definition....uggg..I need to be more careful passing out the translator with words I've used it for...god knows what I have told the students on occasion...

[polarbearbrad]

I know I have already posted but this one was uttered just the other day.


Teaching a reading book and the story talked about a dog eating things off the carpet.

"She saw her dog rover munching the fuzz off the carpet."

Student (middle school boy) looked at me and said...

"Teacher, what is munching fuzz?"

I managed to keep a straight face and give him a legitimate answer but the alpha male inside me was just screaming to make a nasty remark.

Cheers,
PBB

[Pligganease]

In a diary,

"I went to grandfather house this weekend. He lives near the sea. We found some craps. The craps were very big and strong. We boil the craps and ate them. It was delicious."


Hard to contain that laughter...

[ajuma]

Took a page out of Ryst's book and asked uni students what grade they deserved and why. The BEST answer I got was "Because I never had one before."

I gave it to him!

[polarbearbrad]

While doing a unit on the planets I asked the students:

"Would you like to take a vacation in space?"

Wonji: "No I wouldn't."

"Why not?"

Wonji: "Because it is very dark there."

For some reason I found that extremely funny. Perhaps I have a low threshold for laughter.

PBB

[uberscheisse]

i mentioned pakistan the other day and this girl said

"pakistan, is that one of the places hit by the giant SALAMI last week?" after which she kept referring to it as PAKISTONIA.

another boy wrote a sentence that "foil is something you rape food with".

[Atkinson]

At my school, before I got there, there was a teacher, Andrew, who always brought a can of Coke into the classroom. Once, he had his students write something about snacks they like. One girl handed him an essay about how much she likes Coke, and how she especiallay wants to drink from Andrew's Coke, and every time he walks in the classroom, she feels she needs some Coke. It was an obvious bid to get him to share it with her. Except she spelled "Coke" in a way the swear filter would catch, homophonous with "caulk." She signed it with little hearts. I hear there's a picture of the paper on one of the computers at school. I'll try and find it.

[dreamscape]

I had a student trying to tell me he wanted a drink but he couldn't find the words. His comment? As he strokes his throat, "Teacher! Neck desert!"

[uberscheisse]

another student handed in a story in which two explosions occured.

"BOOB!". twice. "BOOB!"

[tommynomad]

For mid-terms, my students have to choose an English-language pop song and either sing it or answer my Qs about its content.

T: What kind of song is your song?
S: It's a love song.
T: Is it a happy song?
S: I said it's a love song. There are no happy love songs.

S: Today is the 18th of dismember.

This one a student didn't say, but wtf:

If my uni kids miss a class they need a Dr's note. Occasionally , one will point out to the medico that they have to give the note to an English-speaker, and I'll get "cold contracted" or "sore disc acute" added to the paragraph of hanggul.
So a student comes in looking really pained. He hands me the note, buckles a little, and asks--eyes pleading and welling up--if he can go home. On the diagnosis line of his Dr's note is a solitary, all-capped word:

















SMEGMA.
I let him go home.

[manlyboy]

A third grader the other day spelt supermarket: SPERMARKET.

[Tiberious aka Sparkles]

Two gems from a few years ago...

1) "My mother is a mistress." (student searching for "housewife" in his electronic dictionary)

2) "I slept with my best friend." (student writing what she did on the weekend)

Sparkles*_*

[Atkinson]