Author Topic: Funniest student phrase this week? (Read 3860 times)

yeeeeeewkorea · « **Reply #20 on:** March 31, 2012, 12:47:50 AM »

I have been teaching my kids I like verb+ing, and after finally getting them to stop saying I like soccer, but instead I like playing/watching soccer, one kid said to another in preparation for me asking her "I like doing mum" then she said to the other in Korean it means "I like mum" but we must use ING like the teacher has been teaching us, haha///

jeonjubibimbap · « **Reply #21 on:** April 02, 2012, 03:41:52 PM »

Walking into school and one middle student girl says "Ahn Young ha sae yo" quickly changing to "Hello ha sae yo" and within a second later with a red face "hi" and running away. Made me laugh all day.

While discussing before and after sentences, my one MS grade 3 class got out of control. I told them to use their imagination and they came up with some funny stuff, but the best one was... "After Mike saw the big dog, he ate it."

The one that made me laugh the most and it wasn't even funny was...."After Mike saw the big dog, he saw a big cat."

missy.creed · « **Reply #22 on:** April 02, 2012, 03:48:51 PM »

So today, my hair is big-ger. Nothing too extreeme but the students are making me laugh.

1. "Teacher, today, your hair, very good."

2. "Teacher, your hair!"

3. "Teacher... ahhhhhh!!!" (hands on cheeks and real excitement)

KuduPower · « **Reply #23 on:** April 02, 2012, 05:34:00 PM »

I was playing a game with my sixth graders where they had to guess the actions based on a few clues.

clue 1) black and white.

...after few wrong guesses

Student: Ah, teacher!

Me: Yes?

Student: *fast Korean*

Me: This is English class, try to use your English.

Student: But teacher, I don't know...

Me: *to coteacher* What did he say?

Coteacher: *chuckling* He said racial discrimination.

I completely lost it.

jimmyeatworldwar · « **Reply #24 on:** April 02, 2012, 08:02:02 PM »

Quote from: Deesh on March 30, 2012, 04:05:48 PM

I have two grade 5 boys who I've caught fighting a couple of times, and I promised them big trouble if I caught them again. Naturally, I caught them again yesterday...

Me: What are you doing?
Student A: Ohh, no teacher, no - no fight.
Me: So what were you doing?
Student B: Ermm... gay festival?

I couldn't punish them after that.

hahaha
this is cracking me up !

drunkenfud · « **Reply #25 on:** April 03, 2012, 12:38:21 AM »

Not this week.

Daekyo Elementary grade 5 textbook. A student is called on to sing one of the songs solo:

My Mom very beautiful
She like da cock very much
She like to sing very much.
I love my Mom Mom Mom

It's interesting to note that this student is sometimes late, the reason being that she is being raised by a single father who leaves for work before she gets up. One of my colleagues has taken it upon herself to give the student wake up calls. Anyway, is it possible to make a Freudian slip in a language one does not speak with any great skill?

McGenghis · « **Reply #26 on:** April 03, 2012, 01:15:26 AM »

This happened at the start of one of my adult classes:

Me: "Please take out a pen or a pencil". Upon spying a Mr Kim sans writing implement, I inquired if he needed one of mine.

Mr Kim: "Yes. Please blow me."

Me (knowing full well he was making a mistake and trying to figure out what it was with a straight face: "Um, could you repeat that one more time Mr Kim?"

Mr Kim: "I have no pen. Please bu-low me?"

Me: "ah, you want to borrow one of mine?"

Pronunciation errors have their pitfalls, but so do translation ones. I was answering another adult student some questions about my family, and told him I have a younger sister who lives alone in Vancouver. I saw him type something into his phone, which I think must have been 'agassi', a word that can be translated as young girl or maiden. Apparently there was another definition on his device.

"Ah, so she is a virgin?"

reversengineer · « **Reply #27 on:** April 03, 2012, 12:32:36 PM »

(while play fighting another sixth grade boy) GO TO THE HELL!

kudzu · « **Reply #28 on:** April 03, 2012, 12:36:37 PM »

From an essay on students' favorite places (all sic):

"I like my house and my uncle's house my house is very warm, funny and excited. my uncle's house is very nice and good. But I don't like uncle."

Hahaha.

makeshiftb0y · « **Reply #29 on:** April 04, 2012, 03:48:15 PM »

Quote from: flasyb on March 30, 2012, 01:41:42 PM

My students seem to think that "cheer up" has a different meaning to the one I'm familiar with. They use it when nobody is remotely sad. I've been doing letter writing this week and a number of them have written "cheer up" at the end of their letters. I think that they think it means the same as "pighting!" or something. Someone taught them wrong somewhere down the line.

Yeah, pretty much. I asked my students a while ago what they thought it meant, and they said, "to encourage someone." Some co-teachers have said it to me sometimes too, and it confused me because I wasn't sad or anything. I've tried to teach them the correct usage, but I think I failed. Now that I think of it, though, I haven't heard it in a while. There was just a week or two when they were saying it a lot. Maybe it was used in a show or song or something.

makeshiftb0y · « **Reply #30 on:** April 04, 2012, 03:57:35 PM »

Kind of a slow week, but this was a little funny. My first year students are talking about wishes this week, so I handed out a bunch of fake wishes and they have to talk about how to make them come true.

A: (reading) I wish I were stronger Mr. R.
B: Oh, so just kill him.

Jeff619 · « **Reply #31 on:** April 04, 2012, 04:09:24 PM »

Quote from: wtoddm on March 30, 2012, 06:08:40 PM

Quote from: Qu'est-cequec'est on March 30, 2012, 04:59:42 PM
"What is an actress?"

"A shemale actor."

...and that was the best for the week. It's been a slow week.

Is it national transgender week or what?

I WISH! Ha, Like Korea would ever mention sexual minorities, let alone in a positive light. :'(
Still, lots of funniness on the subject with our posters, eh? Maybe it was mentioned on some comedy show they watch.

Actually last night my wife watched some documentary on tv about a transgendered person. It wasn't funny at all but more about the struggles they face. Apparently this person had no teeth and had trouble finding a dentist who could fix the problem. Not because they wouldn't help, but because they just didn't have the technology or something. It was actually a very serious show and I was pretty surprised to see it on tv here.

alyssa.callahan · « **Reply #32 on:** April 09, 2012, 05:12:06 PM »

I don't know why, but some of my kids enjoy greeting me in Mandarin Chinese. Part of me thinks that they're just trying to pull my leg. Unfortunately for them, I've taken a year of Mandarin before, so I can hold a simple conversation. I shocked the heck out of him when one student said "Ni hao, laoshi," and I responded "Ni hao. Ni hao ma?" He was all... (O_o) I could almost see him thinking "My English teacher speaks Chinese?!"

And although this isn't something that was said, this week, I played a game with my students involving dice. One kid was the luckiest kid I've ever seen! Nearly every time he rolled, he would roll doubles. When he gets older, this kid should really try playing the lotto or something!

poppy · « **Reply #33 on:** April 10, 2012, 11:13:46 AM »

I was playing a game with my Grade 5 students where that had to come up with as many words as they could starting with the letter G. It was a contest between two teams so they had to quickly go back forth shouting out words. They were saying words like grape, game, golf when one boys yells out Go to Hell, then seeing the look on my face quickly says I mean Go to Heaven.

klin062 · « **Reply #34 on:** April 10, 2012, 11:48:42 AM »

I was asking my kids "What would you like to eat?" when one piped up and said, "human!". Guess I have a budding cannibal in my class.

Warra · « **Reply #35 on:** April 10, 2012, 05:54:44 PM »

Yesterday I walked into class and one student said "Teacher, my smile stink!"
Turns out he was trying to say "My breath stinks."
I don't think I'll ever know why he told me this.

crod11 · « **Reply #36 on:** April 10, 2012, 06:44:14 PM »

My fav English lesson comes from Peace Corps in Suriname. My friend asked a kid where he was from, he responded: "I am from a vagina."

In Korea, I've heard a lot of funny talk but nothing really stands out. Funniest thing I've seen in class is a kid who pretended to be a bank robber during a conversation activity. He held up his partner students and told them he needed their family information faster, lol.

laurenbekker · « **Reply #37 on:** April 12, 2012, 09:52:52 PM »

A fat kid on what he would do with a million dollars (sixth grade): I will buy food and a toy

sethtes · « **Reply #38 on:** April 13, 2012, 05:08:02 AM »

In a diary about the best food:

"I think my favorite food is spaghetti [...some explanation...].
I think the second best food is bulgogi [...explanation].
The worst food is soap. [no explanation required]"

The timing was really perfect after reading thirty diaries about spaghetti, bulgogi, and vegetables. I laughed loud enough for another teacher to ask me whose diary I was reading.

wtoddm · « **Reply #39 on:** April 16, 2012, 01:21:01 PM »

Quote from: sethtes on April 13, 2012, 05:08:02 AM

In a diary about the best food:

"I think my favorite food is spaghetti [...some explanation...].
I think the second best food is bulgogi [...explanation].
The worst food is soap. [no explanation required]"

The timing was really perfect after reading thirty diaries about spaghetti, bulgogi, and vegetables. I laughed loud enough for another teacher to ask me whose diary I was reading.

I wonder if they "wash your mouth out with soap" here. . . My folks sure did... when my sister called me a faggot.

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