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[kermo]

Those of you who teach 4th Grade in the GEPIK program will know what I'm talking about, but I hope those who don't can get an inkling of how creepy our classroom materials are.

Lesson 5, period 2, and we're teaching "Who is she?" There are a number of little clips of white or gyopo kids talking to each other, with the occasional adult. Last week, "Julie" (who wears her curly hair in two great bath-puffs on her head) was skipping around, and a strange adult approaches to ask her brother "Who is she?" The brother volunteers her name, though I recommended to the kids that they don't do this with strangers.

This week my raised eyebrows gave way to straight-out incredulity:
Clip #2: A girl walks down the street. Two elementary aged boys leer after her, saying "Who's she? She's NICE."

Clip #3: Strange man walks up to Julie and says "Who is he?" Julie tells him her brother's name (revenge?), and the strange man says "He's NICE" as he squeezes her shoulder. Ewwwwwww.

I looked at the children with confusion, indicating the man, and asked "WHO IS HE?"



One exceptional kid in the back pipes up: "HE'S A STALKER!"

It took me a full minute to recover from that one.

[Sleepy in Seoul]

I had a class where, during a written test, the students had to look at a picture of a family all playing musical instruments and answer what the various family members were doing. The answers required a proper sentence somewhere along the lines of "Mother is playing the piano". For the question asking what the father was doing, one student answered "Mother".

Unfortunately the material wasn't creepy at all - I'm sure that I could have a lot of fun teaching with the material you are talking about kermo.

[JacktheCat]

English Time

Book 4

Unit 10(?)

"I want to see Uranus, Let me look."

[guangho]

[kermo]

A buddy of mine was teaching at his hagwan, and the cassette was playing examples of past conditional: "I should have ..."

The pleasant male midwestern voice intoned: "I should not have wasted my youth on that man."

10 minutes. 10 minutes of this guy helpless with laughter, as his students look on with bewilderment, awe and amusement.

[peppermint]

I was playing a guessing game called "How does it make you feel?" with a group of uni students with a very low level of English. One of the guys pulled out a picture card, and he was supposed to say how it made him feel. Instead, he stammers" It makes me . . . hard. ." ( I'm pretty sure he meant that it was hard to say how it made him feel)

I glanced at his card, and then excused myself to run to the ladies room so they wouldn't me laughing like a mad woman. The card featured a pair of shoes

[JongnoGuru]

[Ya-ta Boy]

I always enjoy it when any of my male students says something about his 'intimate' male friends.

[kermo]

[JongnoGuru]

[kermo]

[peppermint]

I think at least part of the humor stems from it being an absurd statement to illustrate the grammar. I can only imagine how you'd explain wasting your youth on someone to a group of Korean kids.

If I had to illustrate that grammar, I'd pretend to be full, and say "I should not have eaten 5 hamburgers", and maybe pretend to vomit. That would make the students laugh.

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[JongnoGuru]

[The Kung Fu Hustle]

Longman English Playbooks: Food

They have a series of characters rotating what they do and don't like. For some reason though, it's always Grandpa and the ginger guy who say "I like bananas" & "I like carrots." Cue a rather disgusting picture of grandpa or the ginge smilingly fellating a carrot.

I think some super-bored English teachers out there are trying to send messages of help via the text-books they write.

[neandergirl]

neandergirl says argh daily. Also oi vey.