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Message board > What silly mistakes have you made in a class?
What silly mistakes have you made in a class?
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banska bystrica
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helo, this was a good idea, to share our funny mistakes!
I won �t write about my common mistakes or hesitations during classes, as they sometimes happen to everyone, but I want to share my most unexplainable blunder I �ve made since I �ve started teaching, which is not so long - only two years, but I still hope that this kind of mistake will never happen again 
It was the last lesson before Christmas, so you can imagine the atmospehere ... I was teaching teenagers, who were just going to graduate. We were discussing English Christmas vocab and I played them a song by Eagles - Come home for Christmas, when they asked me, what a Christmas carol means. I must have been very hungry, because I don �t know why, but I told them it was a kind of fish - carp. (just to get the idea, in slovakia we eat fish, especially carps at christmas). Of course, everybody wrote this translation down and they learnt it. I realized this just as I got home and for the whole Christmas holiday (which took about three weeks) I was thinking of a proper way of coming back to this word in the very first class in the new year and explaining to the students that a christmas carol is not fish but a kind of song. I was nervous and embarrassed, but the students were really great, so we just laughed at this silly mistake and kept on studying.  Fortunately! 
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30 Oct 2009
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libertybelle
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Colibrita! All the Scandinavians love and use that joke!
When I ask my kids if they are finished (Finnish) they love to answer
"No I �m Danish!" I hear it 10 times a day!!!
I �m sure the Norwegians, Swedes, Icelanders and Danes all love that joke!!
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30 Oct 2009
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Anna P
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The silliest thing that happened to me in class was showing up wearing my brown loafer on one foot and my husband �s black shoes on the other! I used to wake up much earlier than him and, not to wake him up, I had to get dressed in the dark. He had left his shoes (which are almost my size) next to mine so... the kids really thought I was silly! |
30 Oct 2009
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colibrita
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I �ve got another one - once when my niece and nephew came over for dinner the conversation turned to school. I asked my nephew what Shakespeare play they were studying - "the Virgin of Menace" he said and then "no I mean The Merchant of Venice"! We laughed ourselves silly!
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30 Oct 2009
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