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[poet13]

So the lesson plan is family.

We have created a family tree on the board, filled it in, and now we're doing +vocabulary. Words like generation, nuclear, parents, siblings.

I circle mother and father and ask, "What do you call mother and father together?" "Parents!" comes the appropriate response.

After a short preamble that the word parent or praaents doesnt denote one or the other, I next I circle brother and sister and ask, "What do you call brother and sister together?"

"INCEST!" came the very clear reply from the back of the room. Following a one word translation by another student, the class was effectively over.

[Cerriowen]

Readers Digest material Love it!

[Draz]

Middle school?

[cruisemonkey]

[T-J]

Me: How many languages do you speak?
Student: Three. Korean, Chinese, and English.

Me: That's great, I only speak two. English and Korean.
Student: You don't speak Spanish? I thought you were from America?

Me:

[curiousaboutkorea]

In my phonics class for kindergarten I was going over letter combinations. I'd write the two letters on the board together, say the sound and have the students repeat after me. I got a surprise from what one of my students shouted. Mind you, he's only 6. He is quite a good English speaker, far and away the best in his class, but what he said shocked me.

Me: C and H, 'ch'.
Students: ch!
Me: T and H, 'th'.
Students: th!
Me: P and H, 'ph.'
Students: ph!
One student: Oh, teacher, like 'F*<<ing!'
Me: (struggling to find what to say) um... no... we don't say that here.

[yingwenlaoshi]

[Scotticus]

[T-J]

[poet13]

Yes, it was first year middle school.

[sobriquet]

Boy in class is being picked on by a smarter girl

Boy stands up points at the girl and shouts

"Teacha teacha." whilst pointing at the girl "I am gay"

Everybody who understood turned and looked, everybody who understood after another student translated turned and looked. Boy stood their wondering what was going on.

I answered with. " I know, but it's ok"


Wasted a good 15 minutes chuckling away about that.

[skdragon]

[Phant0m]

I was laughing a bit while I was grading some homework. The topic for homework was "What kind of person do you want as your neighbor" and here are two replies that really cracked me up (they're both mid-level high school students)

1) I want kind neighborhood because if I'm hard, neighborhood help me

2)I I want a person who is warm-heart because these days we don't get on with our neighbors are like a strangers. I'll help and share my precious thing


The first is from a guy and the second is from a girl.

[bobbybigfoot]

For one class I gave the following four words for vocab homework (just following the book). Pack, carry, ball, bag. The homework was to write a sentence with each of the words: It was hard not to laugh when this small little kid read, "I pack my balls." Still makes me laugh.

In another class, my eyes widened when, the smallest girl in the class wrote for homework, "puppy is cu*t", "sister is cu*t". Uh, no sweetheart, it's spelled c u t e....

Written in an essay, "The Chinese are dirty. They'll eat anything with four legs except tables."

[the foystein]

These are really funny, thanks.