Today I made the mistake of trying to teach my students a new word.
A mistake, you ask? Surely an English teacher should be trying to teach her students as many new words as possible. Oh, no no. Without any shadow of a doubt, a mistake.
When I ask whether anyone knows what the word “egotistical” means, the only kid who (I thought) understood me replies, “…Someone who thinks with their penis?”
“Uhhh….WHAT?!”
And this kid actually says, “What? You said TESTICLE!”
Five minutes later I had stopped laughing enough to choke out “That is absolutely NOT what I said!”
I wrote the word on the board and everyone goes, “Aaaah ouaais, egoiste!” and I learned that next time maybe I should start by writing the new word on the board instead of frantically finishing that way. Though to be fair, there’s really no way I could have predicted the word “egotistical” could be misconstrued to such an extent.
To add insult to injury, later in the class my students watched in delight as I tried to drink from my water bottle without first removing the cap.
What a Monday.
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