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rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

I was wondering what the funniest reply, intentional or otherwise, you've had from one of your kids/students. Sometimes they come out with just so silly things..
Like today i was phone teaching "Sally":-

Me: So, when were you born?
Sally: I was born.....
Me: on the?.....
Sally: "I was born on the table" Laughing

I know its not that funny but it just cracked me up in the middle of the serious teacher room!!!!

shawner88 · Joined: 01 Feb 2003

I asked my adult students tonight what kind of exercises they do. The only woman said "Breasting exericise." She meant, "Breathing exercise" as a joke. All the guys laughed and she turned red.

Blue Flower · Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2003 10:48 pm Post subject:

I can't remember what I was doing with them, but my students were saying "I" sentences. One of the kids said "I smell". He had mis-pronounced smile. For some reason, I just started laughing, and couldn't stop.

Another student, who is one of those arrogant, middle school boys who thinks that he is teh sexiest, greatest person on the planet (he's about 14-15) I thought he said for me to call him sex boy. Of course i cracked up and thought it was hillarious, and actually wrote "sex boy ?" on the board to clarify. As i could just imagine him being a gigilo or something like that, god it was funny. But because i was laughing so hard, one of the other students asked me if I had been drinking soju!!

katydid · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: Here kitty kitty kitty...

For one of our uni lessons, we are going over What are you doing? What is he doing? What are they doing?
One of the exercises asks the students to write about what is happening now in the park. A boy is playing soccer, a girl is listening to the radio and so on.
At least two of my students have taken a look at the picture, looked at the two women walking close together and have written "Two women are dating." Heh heh heh.
I love it...just when you think Korea is still a very conservative-minded country.... Wink

mo · Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2003 12:03 am Post subject:

Talking about K-Pop/music, when I mentioned I liked Eee-Ho Ree and B.O.A. All of a sudden there's a scream from this normally incapable student:

"NO TEACHER, NO!! SILICONE!!!"

Needless to say I laughed a little. Laughing

rapier · Joined: 16 Feb 2003

I got a bit stressed with my first job here and took to drinking a couple of beers before class everyday in the bar downstairs.
The boss wasn't overjoyed about it but I persisted. One day teaching my 7 year olds, one of the quiter ones sidled up to me and asked, "Teacher, you like Cass?"
I agreed wholeheartedly, but thought I'd better stop from that day on!!!

Ody · Joined: 27 Jan 2003 Location: over here

last year, in a low-intermediate class, i had this kid who you could just tell possessed a developed sense of humor; not a great student by any means, but sharp, always on (even though he was using Korean most of the time).

we were answering the Qs, "How do you get to school?" and "How long does it take?"
his answer: "by airplane. it takes 2 minutes." (A+)

steven g · Joined: 02 Feb 2003 Location: seoul

a korean co-worker of mine who is awesome at english started a role play exercise with middle school kids after he'd filled them in on the various nicknames for various nationalities (pom, yank) he then started a conversation with a shy little boy by saying "hello, my names kim su-wan and i'm a kiwi from auckland", to which the boy replied "hi, my names charley and i'm a pineapple from suwon" !

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

"What's your favorite color?"

"Hamburger!"

I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

FUBAR · Joined: 21 Oct 2003 Location: The Y.C.

This was from a 3rd grade middle school student about 2 weeks ago.

What do you hate?

I can't stand..... (searches the Korean/English dictionary)

............. I can't stand repressing excrement.

I almost died laughing...

The Marchioness · Joined: 17 Feb 2003 Location: teetering on the edge

To the question "And what did you do last night?" one of my students answered with a serious expression: "I was excreting poo ..."

Had me rolling on the floor!!!!

Holyjoe · Joined: 03 Mar 2003 Location: Away for a cuppa

Couple of adults, one was talking about his work relationship with the other:

Student: "... and if I do something wrong, he'll blow me"

Me: "Ummmm... excuse me?"

Student: "He blows me.. like this..."

Me: (Thinking - I don't wanna see this)

Student: [punches colleague on the arm] "Blows me, like this"

Me: (Quite a lot of explaining...)

Funny though Smile