This is the true story of my adventures in learning Spanish and teaching English in South America.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Listen In

Overheard in my basic class:

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Me: When is your birthday?
Student: Windows?
Me: No, when is your birthday?
Student: Oh! Fine, teacher.

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During a game of Simon Says:
Student: Touch your right ass.
(Everyone looks confused)
Student: Touch your right ass
Me: (Pointing to mine) Ass?
Student: NOOOOOO! (Points to his right eye. We obviously have some pronunciation issues.)

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Me: What do you eat when you're sick?
Student: The kitchen.
Another student: No, chicken soup.

3 comments:

Tonya said...

So that you are cheered up, I found some ESL error sentences on the web to cheer you up! I apologize in advance for the PG-13 nature of some of these.
There's an electric sucker in the wall.
Here they are:

1. They met in New York and after two mounts they got married.

2. After years of saving, we were finally able to buy a condom in NJ.

3. She works as a baby sister in this country.

4. [At the wedding,] they threw lice on us for good luck.

5. I enjoy the class, but the teacher's testes are hard.

6. There's an electric sucker in the wall. (no idea?!?)

7. The cat was hungry because we forgot to eat him.

8. My grandmother was at the airport so I had to hold her up in my car.

9. At my sweet fifteen, I wore a crow on my head.

10. I like my sister's husband. He's a really nice gay.

Tonya

Tonya said...

Okay, so BLOGGER is going nuts again... Just ignore the random sentence in there and the weirdness that got added on at the beginning of the first sentence of my last post. The good news is that the ESL errors are in tact!

Kelli said...

Thanks, Tonya. That did help a bit!