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[C.M.]

Another thread brought to mind the amount of absurd, silly and ridiculous things that happen each day in class but are so insignificant they don't usually have a place here on this forum. I wanted to share just one. In class this week (small class, 8 students) two of the lads got it in their heads that it would be fun to lift their feet as close as they could to their mouths and say "Yoboseyo! Yoboseyo!" No one was really watching; no one was paying much attention; they simply drifted off into their own little worlds for about a minute, feet to mouth, saying "Yoboseyo!"

[ilovebdt]

[flotsam]

An hour ago, while going through my "At The Immigration Booth Because You Are Going To Study Abroad" lesson(that's not the actual title), I wrote out an example of the passsport handout that I made for the kids on the board so I could make sure they all understood what surname, given names, date of birth, etc. meant.

When I got to Sex, one of the more fluent kids started squirming and whining--his family is mega-Evangelical--and moaned:

"Uhhahhuuhh, teach-uh. Oh, teach-uh. Gend-uh!"

The other students giggled, not really knowing what he was on about, and I smiled and said, "They mean the same thing Jae-Hwan, relax." But he kept moaning and twisting and squirming in his chair:

"Uuuwhah, TEACH-UH! Gend-UH! Teach-uh! GEND-UH"

By which point he resembled someone in the throes of possession or a seizure. The other students started to look really concerned, and then Jae-Hwan burst out with:

"TEACH-UH! I NO LIKE SEX-UH!"

Pandemonium ensued.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

Walking into a classroom and there's a music video playing on the class monitor with five or six girls trying (pathetically) to dance in sync to the people in the video. I don't know how often that happens.

Then there are classes where everyone is sound asleep when I come in, especially after lunch. Some of them just look so droggy when I wake them up you'd think they had been sleeping for hours.

[ilovebdt]

[C.M.]

[seoulsista]

We were talking about the word emabarassed in class one day and I ask them all if they have ever felt embarassed. This was a rather advanced class for their age. Little Olivia raises her hand, she's about 10 and proceeds to tell me a story.

(I'm paraphrasing)

"Once when I was little I had to go to the bathroom really bad and I couldn't make it to the toliet so I went on the floor..."

At this point I'm thinking: innapropriate for the class but not for the topic and I can't really tell her to stop talking at this point and she's mid-sentence so I allow her to continue besides we've all drank too much before and...

"...and I didn't want to get in trouble soo I put my father's slipper down (she reanacts and makes a squishing sound) on it really hard and ran away..."

It occurred to me then that she wasn't talking about number two. Thankfully the other kids didn't cue in at all.

[jajdude]

I'm sure most of us teaching elementary kids do and say lots of weird stuff just for humor relief.

I cracked up recently though from something I had to teach in a writing class to not so high level students. It was "cause" and "effect" ... terms they barely understood in Korean. But I gave them some good examples, with pictures.

I drew the baseball diamond.
Cause: I hit a home run.
Effect: (ball hits a student in the head) "Tony" dies.

Cause: Tony cuts off a giraffe's neck. (with a big axe and evil grin on his face)
Effect: Family has dinner.

Cause: Tony has no money.
Effect: Tony robs bank. (Running away smiling with the $ sign on the bag)

Well, guess you had to see my silly drawings. It made a sometimes boring class go well.

[Yu_Bum_suk]

[oldfatfarang]

My best ever adults classes:

The guy who wanted to work for the National Erection Committee.
I spent an hour with him trying to get him to say National Election Committee, but he just didn't get it (hilarious). I'd love to have been at his job interview.

And another one, in my Businness Class the guys were discussing the potence of eating dog meat (for stamina!)
And then the corporation President burst out saying: "I need Viagra!", "I need Viagra!"