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Amusing Stories from a Teacher--Boys and Babies
I thought you might like some true anecdotes of what we teachers go through teaching ESL in person (or when substituting for teachers in the public schools). Please ask about any words you don't know--Ilene
 
I was a guest teacher (we're trying to change the substitute label and its respectability) for a 5th grade science class in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.  Behold, on the right of the classroom, there was a model of the lower torso of a woman with a uterus and a full-term baby in it.  I can't remember what I was teaching to these 10- or 11-year-olds. But I do remember three boys sauntering up (walking slowly) to the uterine model and inspecting it. (The model baby was a boy.)

One kid snapped the baby out of the model, and to my surprise, started cradling the baby like...a baby. The next kid wrested (forcibly pulled away) the baby out of the first kid's caring arms--and he began cradling it. And the same with the third! I guess they saw me looking at them endearingly (lovingly)--at the wonder of young, usually wild boys, cuddling a baby. Then things changed: the kids starting throwing the model baby to each other. Next, another boy pulled the baby's head off. I yelled at him for damaging school property, and then, with the help of one of his pals, he popped it back on.

Now, I couldn't believe this: I made the kids sit down. But one boy watched me as I struggled to get the baby into the model uterus. 

"That wouldn't be my baby," he says. As my eyes questioned him, he indicated (pointed out, showed) the baby boy's little manhood. "Too small."

I think we guest teachers, anywhere from 10 to 50 years older than these 10 year-olds, have to do more to garner (collect) greater respect from kids than merely changing our title.

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The loudest teacher on my memory happened for the opposite reason. It was a history teacher and he was asking us to name various Greek gods. That time children here knew Greek panteon remarkably well, we successfully named all the major gods and after we named Aphrodite he said that there was yet another Greek god of love. I knew he was speaking about since before I learned to read (I said, Greek panteon was known well here) and was about to answer, but he made a mistake. He hinted that the word in question has a cognate and that since recently this second word can be heard often. Immediately everyone got shy.  Indeed it was soon after the collapse of (prudish) USSR and many new words became suddenly popular. After several minutes of complete success he couldn't belive that further attempts are futile. His anger grew with every second. His scream "EROS!!!" must have shaken the walls 5 mins later, and he wrote it with meter high letters in the chalkboard.
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The students in an ESL class at one of the area high schools would routinely do a grammar review at the beginning of each class. Every week or so they would have a quiz over what they had (supposedly) learned. One student had found the teacher's edition of the grammar book which included the answers to all the quizzes. Not surprisingly, this student did remarkably well on the quiz because he had memorized all the answers. The thing that gave him away, though, was that he insisted that the correct answer to the final short answer question was Answers may vary.
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Hey Eros, Oops, I mean, Dravsi--HaHa about that teacher. Many teachers are terrified of making mistakes--or when they can't remember things in front of their students. Sometimes I tell students OFF THE BAT that I will probably make a mistake in the lesson, and don't be afraid to tell me. This often happens when I'm doing grammar quizzes with students. Thanks for the story! Ilene
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Ha, Tempus--that's funny! Thanks--Ilene

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