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[Underwaterbob]

I'm sure there was a thread around here somewhere with some examples of unintentionally funny student English, but I can't find it.

Today I had some of my students making sentences using some of the 200 words their Korean teacher made them memorize for homework. One student came up with: "Squirrel pare his nuts." Try keeping a straight face explaining that it should be: "The squirrel pares his nuts."

[mcviking]

I was talking about vacations with my kids and one of them said, People go to America to trip." Yeah its juvenile but it made me laugh really loud.

[earthbound14]

My student had a song for her music class called "Where is my white cock?"

I told her she would have to wait until she was a little older to find out. She just looked at me puzzled.

Another time I had a class of boys, If they were good during class they were allowed to listen to music while working in their workbooks. I played a song called "I want to hump you"

The kids all sat their singing along

I want to hump you
I want to hump you
I want to hump you

until one kid pipes up and says "Teacher, what does 'hump you' mean?"

I said " 'Help you' He's saying he wants to help you."

I want to help you
I want to help you
I want to help you

[crossmr]

"Does she make you hard?"

"First two couple played together in two rooms, later 4 couples played together in one room"

[Aelric]

What animal has a mane on the back of it's neck, is very strong and you can ride?

A Snakeu! DOGGIE! Cat!

No, sorry, it's a horse.

No! Teacher! I ride dog!!

[DrOctagon]

I teach high school boys so they're always saying funny things. One day I was teaching a lesson about morning routines....

Me: What are some examples of what you do in the morning? What is your morning routine.

Student: Morning dung!!!
Another student: Morning happy time!!!!
All students: Morning happy time!!!

[saw6436]

I was teaching adjectives in an all girls 6th grade class. A worksheet exercise was prompting students to make sentences like "I like the new car." or "I want the red balloon." For one of the sentences, one of my girls wrote, "I like the big pen*s." Poor kid couldn't spell "pencil". I had to leave the room.

[Jane]

I've had a ton of funny stuff happen; the problem is I tend to forget the funny moments over time.

This one I remember:

I had an adult class, and we were talking about something I no longer recollect, and he said the sentence; "I had enema city."

I said; "Excuse me. You had what?", and he repeated the same phrase again. I asked him to write the sentence down so I can figure out what he is saying.

ahhhh....animosity!

[reactionary]

"My friend's boyfriend gave her herpes."

This was during an adult's conversation class. She never clarified she was talking about cold sores, so I kind of hemmed and hawed and moved onto the next student.

[tzechuk]

[reactionary]

Yes, but normally we specify what kind. And I hardly think in casual conversation someone would say "My boyfriend gave me herpes" because I, and a lot of people I think, would assume genital herpes.

That's why we have two euphemisms: cold sores and fever blisters. So you don't have to say "Man, I have a lot of herpes outbreaks on my lips today"

[spitfire]

I did an english camp where at the end the kids had to write notes to each other to stay in touch as they were from different schools.

One of the kids wrote 'Give me message' but he actually wrote 'Give me massage'. Made me laugh.

[asams]

We were doing an activity where the kid draws a picture using some of the phrases they learned (i.e. go to bed, get up, brush your teeth) and one student drew a picture of her and her father in bed with the caption:

"I sleeping with daddy"

I just tried to ignore that





On second though, should I have reported that?

[Zutronius]

Student: "Teacher, you look tired. Me too. Let's sleep together."

[detourne_me]

Me: "Which amusement parks do you like?"

"Lotteworld! Seoul Land! Everland!"
"Neverland!"

Me: "Huh? Neverland... like Peter Pan?"

"No, I want to be with Michael Jackson"

Me: *collapse*