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"I don't care if poppies grow in fucking Flanders fields." --8th grader

#history #fair enough #me either particularly

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#culture clash

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Throwback story time!

My favorite out of my students' attempts at English spelling?

"Mak.c.ko"

In case it isn't obvious, that's the place that "taccos" come from.

#esl #tefl #korea #at least they understood syllables! #and yes it was spelled with the periods

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Throwback story time!

Two of my boys were doing a decent job of focusing on their work so I was letting them get away with chatting in Japanese. I am glad I did, because the result was this truly remarkable exchange:

Student 1: 女が男、男が女。(Girls are boys, boys are girls.)

Student 2: 男がうんこ。(Boys are shit.)

#throwback #I had this saved from 6 years ago #I wish I remembered which children these were

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My 7th graders shut each other down for body shaming Old Major from "Animal Farm" today.

#animal farm #I haven't used this in years #but I just couldn't help it #this was too fucking funny

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baby youre so beautiful like a beautiful object of some sort

#I wish this was a joke for me but my middle schoolers literally say this shit all the time

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Trump that

me: *showing the class a picture* Tell me about this man.

Student 1: He’s old.

Student 2: He’s rich.

Student 3: He’s ugly.

Boss: *passing through the classroom* Are you talking about Trump?

#esl #trump #might as well have been

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Goodbye Christmas

Student: *cleaning up the letters he used to spell Christmas words* Gingerbread man, bye bye man!

#christmas #efl #accidental perfect English #same class his sister said to me #Sensei come here #and when I did the other kids asked her what it meant #and she said she didn't know

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Et tu, Bunko?

Me: Okay, and when do you feel sad?

Adult student [in Japanese]: How do you say ‘when my friends betray me?’

#esl #Japan

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I aged quickly.

Student 1 has decided he is the teacher for the day. I am playing along, since he is (mostly) following our regular lesson plan.

Student 1 [in Japanese]: Okay, you are a child now.

Me: A child? But I'm 30 years old.

Student 2: *look of utter horror* You're 30?!?

Me: Yes, I am.

Student 2: You aren't a child, you are an old lady!

#esl #japan #I am obaachan #student 1 still kept calling me a child #at the end he called me S-chan #his mom thought it was hilarious

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Further cannibalism

Me: "What is the past tense of 'She eats a hamburger'?"

Student: "She was eaten by her father."

#esl #japan #eikaiwa #I wish that was the worst thing that class came up with #at least it was grammatically correct #if not at all the right answer

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The tiniest cannibal

We are playing a game where students have to tell me if small plastic items are "yummy" (food) or "yucky" (not food).

Student: *holding up a plastic nose* Yummy!

Me: Is that yummy? I think it's yucky.

Student [in Japanese]: It's meat!

#I couldn't argue with that #I let her feed it to Mr. Frog #esl #Japan #eikaiwa #esl in Japan