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Student: Teacher, what is Lemur? Gem: Do you know racoon? Student: Yes. Gem: Lemur is monkey racoon.

Overheard from the classroom next door

Teacher: Do you need bathroom or water? Student 1: No homework! Teacher (slower): Do you need bathroom or water? Student 1: No homework! Student 2 (explains in Korean): She's asking if you need bathroom or water. Student 1 (still English): No homework!

Student A (in Korean): How do you spell “snake”?

Student B: S n ak47

#esl teacher #teaching english

"All by myself"

Stephen: Alright, who wants to pray for the food? Kristie: *raises hand* Gem: I think Kristie does. Kristie: And I'm gonna do it all by myself! Stephen: Alright, Kristie, go ahead. Kristie: Dear Jesus. Umm, what's next? Stephen: Thank you for the food. Kristie: Thank you for the food. Stephen: And thank you for Aunt Gem and Aunt Schelle's visit. Kristie: And thank you for Aunt Gem and Aunt Schelle's visit. Stephen: And then whatever else you want. Kristie: In Jesus name, amen.

Gem: I made a blanket.

Student: You made a blanket?

Gem: *shows picture of the blanket*

Student: Very cool!

Gem: No, very warm.

Me: *teaches language exchange group the meaning of beer belly and muffin top*

Language exchange partner 1: I have beer belly.

Language exchange partner 2: You have makgeolli (Korean rice wine) belly.

#second language learning #language exchange #language learning

Gem: How much sleep did you get last night? Student 1: 3 hour. Gem: 3 hours? Student *lots of verbal thinking*: Yes. I go bed 5 get up 8. Gem: Wow... Why?!? Student 1: Because summer break. Gem: That's not how you do summer break! You sleep more! Not less! Student 2: I sleep 10 hour. Gem (gesturing toward student 2): THAT'S how you do summer break! Student 2 and 3 discussing in Korean. Student 2: Oh, 11 hour. I sleep 11 hour.

Student: 그냥. Gem (helping the student translate it to English): Just because. Student: Justin Bieber.

#teaching english #english teacher

The new alphabet song

Abraham (singing ABC's song): Now I know my ABC's, next time I will see you there.

Gem (laughing): Next time I will see you there?

Abraham: Why? (Turns to classmate and asks in Korean) Next time I will see you there, it's right, right?

Classmate: Yeah.

#abc #teaching english #english teacher

(*singing*) A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P - Wait. WHY am I singing this? (*5 seconds of silence*) ... Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, and Z, now I know my A B C's, next time won't you sing with me.

Overheard at work

#english teacher #teaching english #abc

But how?

Gem: How's the weather?

Other students: It's ok. It's so-so. It's hot. (etc)

MinGyu: It's hot, hot, hot, hot, hot, and cloudy and cool.

Gem: How's the weather?

Student: It's very, very so-so.

Gem: Did you do the homework?

Jihan: There was homework?

Gem: Yes! Did you forget?

Jihan: Sorry.

Gem: You didn’t do the homework?

Jihan: *hands over the homework*

Gem: Oh? Is this the homework? You did it?

Jihan: Yes.

Gem: You troll! Are you trolling me? You’re trolling me!

Jihan: Trolling is fun.

Gem: I agree. Trolling is fun. But you shouldn’t troll your teacher!

During the Halloween party at my school.

Student (explaining classmate’s costumes): He is Pokémon and she is Ninja.

Gem (wanting them to guess my costume): Nice! What am I?

Another student: Pretty.

We were doing 1-minute talking topics. (The student picks a slip of paper, reads the question and has to spend one minute answering the question.)

Lucia’s topic: What wild animal would you want as a pet?

Summary of her answer: The desert fox because it’s very cute.

Jihan’s topic: What is the most dangerous animal?

Summary of his answer: The desert fox because it will give you a heart attack when you see how cute it is.

Yujin: Abraham, what did you do on Saturday?

Abraham: I ate cake.

Gem: oh? What type of cake?

Abraham: It wasn’t cake, it was icecream.

Gem: oh… so was it an ice cream cake?

Abraham: No, it was Baskin Robins 31 ice cream. It wasn’t a cake.

Gem: okay…. What flavor?

Abraham: I ate eight flavors.

Gem: How big was this ice cream?

Abraham: Oh wait, I didn’t eat the ice cream on Saturday. On Saturday I went to my grandmother’s house.

Me: Laura where’s your homework?

Laura: teacher, I say Korean okay?

Me: okay

Laura: *proceeds to explain it in English anyway*

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