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[maitaidads]

For the younger students, one of my classic gags was to draw a tiered turd on the board. After the laughter/outrage subsided, I'd draw a cone underneath to transform it to ice cream and then plead ignorance and blame them for being weirdos/perverts. How else do you shock their little hearts and brains with a bit of levity and comedy?

[radcon]

Whenever my students mention Yuna Kim I pretend to not have any idea who she is. They will explain who she is. Then I will say, oh you mean Mao Asada (Japanese skater). They try desperately to explain and are shocked that I don't know her. " Sorry, bro never heard of her." This works on students of all ages.

[Steelrails]

Show em pictures of me with guns back home.

[Stain]

I often pretend to misunderstand them and then carry on as if that's what they said. In my public school job, there was a kid that I knew had stolen another kid's crutches and was walking around with them. I saw him and got really concerned, asking him if his foot was getting better. This student, who became suddenly distraught, spoke hardly any English and was telling me in Korean that they weren't his crutches. Other students tried to jump in and tell me but I kept on with it. The next day, I saw the kid with the actual broken foot with the crutches in class and once he sat down, I grabbed them and accused him of stealing the crutches from the kid who actually stole them. Suddenly, the entire class was trying to explain to me in English that I had it wrong. I refused to believe them. A week later when I had their class, the kid's foot was better and he was walking around without crutches, so I pointed out to the others that he was fine and they were all lying to me.

[Hokie21]

If they are acting up I write their name in red on the board and put four number "4's" around it.

That usually gets them pretty mad.

[wanderkind]

[Fox]

Ghost Stories. It's pretty easy to actually get (at least some of) the kids believing there's a ghost, and once you've done it, you can reference the ghost more or less anytime. "Teacher, can I go bathroom?" "Okay, but watch out for the ghost." "Teacher!!!" And then the student sits down and gives up on their plot to use the bathroom as an excuse to goof off. At our school the English room is in a different building than their classrooms too, and there's a long, actually slightly spooky hall right outside of it, so it's perfect.

Need to be careful though, if you push it too far you can end up with crying. It's definitely an art.

[NohopeSeriously]

I told them my old stories back in Russia and Canada.

[withnail]

I innocently drew a picture on the whiteboard of a cactus complete with prickles jutting out left and right - cue hysterical laughter...

I turned around and realised it looked like a large male reproductive organ...

[Zyzyfer]