Today since I had no students to teach, I corrected some tests. I sat in the library with Alain, a math teacher, and we corrected away. Every once in a while I'd burst out laughing, and he told me "There's nothing funny about correcting math tests." Alain's English is pretty good, so I shared my "gems" with him and got him to laugh.
Here, in hopes I'll get you to laugh as well, are some of the things my students wrote:
The 6th graders took a review test where they had to show that they knew how to say:
their name and where they're from
My name is Samantha, I'm Cognac.
what language(s) their mothers understand
My mother understand Italic.
their parents' ages (and siblings' if they had any)
My bother Ludovic is teentysix.
My bother Mathias is teentytreen.
My bother Baptiste is four. (I can imagine a 4-year old would be a bother. -Ed.)
My mother is fourteen. My father is fourteen-one.
My mother is thirty-eight, my father is thirty-nine, my sister is fifty-five.
My father is thefty-nine.
the fact that they live in France and their address
I livine France (I leev een France! -Ed.)
the current time
It's forty-two o'clock.
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The 8th graders were tested on their knowledge of the modal verbs MUST and SHOULD. They had to make a list of things they must/should do around the house:
I mustn't shrek.
I must eat a chiken (sic).
I must brush my tif. This is actually a play on words; "tif" is a slang word for hair in French. I don't think the kid realized it, though. He was trying to say something like this:
I must brush my tooth.
I must do the Friday.
I mustn't eat chewing.
and my personal favorite,
I must wash up the rabbit.
Time to go. My head and body feel like it's about forty-two o'clock.
HIlarious! AHhhh Kids...aren't they fun. Thanks for the ROTFLOL!
Posted by: Sallie | May 16, 2005 at 11:19
I love them! Of course, my French students do the same types of things,only in French. Sometimes I can't help but laugh when they say funny stuff. It's not very nice, I know.
Posted by: Margaret | May 16, 2005 at 11:31
Those are the best! Those crazy kids.
Posted by: Sassatron Jones | May 16, 2005 at 17:06
Sassatron! You rock. I miss you.
Posted by: Alison | May 16, 2005 at 17:18
Sometimes, after I see your mouth working the words in your video-blogs, I retreat to the bathroom where I too must "wash up the rabbit," if you know what I mean.
Posted by: Thomas | May 17, 2005 at 15:12
Thomas, you are so bad!
Posted by: Alison | May 17, 2005 at 23:58