Student Bloopers
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Israeli Student Bloopers
- I had my students write speeches. One decided to write a graduation speech.
- "We are now leaving the world of childhood and entering the world of adultery. I wish all of us luck in this".
(-- submitted by Naomi Sobel - znsobel(at)netvision(dot)net(dot)il)
- Two bloopers remembered from many years ago:
- When asked to describe his/her room:
In my room I have a coffin full of traitors
("aron" and "begadim" are the culprits)
- The soldiers returned to their pedestal
(I wonder if they're still there!)
(-- submitted by Esther Lucas - 100521.370(at)compuserve(dot)com)
- This blooper came in recently recently from one of my pupils
Can you figure it out?
- "It was emmigrant raining"
Did you get it? That's right - use of Hebrew/English
dictionary-
emmigrant=yored ( yored geshem)
(-- submitted by Menachem Vinegrad - jaclad(at)matav(dot)net(dot)il)
- Appropo the use of the Hebrew-English dictionary, here's another blooper
from the time I used to teach in school:
- "For a great fruit salad, take an apple, two bananas, some grapes and half a dictionary" (in Hebrew, 'melon')
(-- submitted by Carol Dickstein - yoav_d(at)netvision(dot)net(dot)il)
- How about:
- "My treasure of words is not so big"?
- and how is that for how to make cookies: "Take two palms of
sugar...."
(-- submitted by Sonia - mrsmith(at)netvision(dot)net(dot)il)
- Another student blooper.....while writing a story about a bank robbery, my
student wrote.....
- "They found that the robber, Motti, gave Peter something
to put him to sleep in his tea."
(-- submitted by fine - fine(at)bezeqint(dot)net)
- And this:
- I don't remember anything that I know.
- That is the restaurant we havent been to many times.
(-- submitted by lesley - lesley1(at)inter(dot)net(dot)il)
- Here is a recent one from a cloze:
- "Christopher Reed has also traveled to Guatemala, where he _____ the host of the Paralympics."
Pupil's answer: 'ate'.
(-- submitted by Barry Silverberg - barisil(at)netvision(dot)net(dot)il)
- The fifth grade assignment was to draw and label items in their bedrooms. One student drew and labeled his coffin. (Think Hebrew!)
(-- submitted by Fruma Cohen - fruma2000(at)hotmail(dot)com)
- In a cloze excercise, in which the three words 'therapy, phobia and
terror' had to be inserted, this was the result:
- The attacks often become more frequent, until the patient, paralysed with therapy, is confined to the house, unable to go out. Psychiatrists, who specialize in terror, use a variety of phobias, some of which are more effective than others.
(-- submitted by byk(at)zahav(dot)net(dot)il)
- While doing phrasal verb fill-ins, one of my pupils once wrote,
- "She turned on her insurance agent."
(instead of "turned to her insurance agent," of course!)
(-- submitted by Jane Berman - janemosh(at)netvision(dot)net(dot)il)
- one of my students wrote:
- ... i held on to my teddy bear but suddenly i aborted the fetus it...
try to figure it out
(-- submitted by Dafna Samuel - dafnasam(at)netvision(dot)net(dot)il)
- My favourite student blooper comes from England, many years ago,when I was teaching adult immigrants. I asked a lovely Indian lady how old her children were.
- "My daughter is three, and my son is half past one."
(-- submitted by Tamar - mumwawa(at)netvision(dot)net(dot)il)
- How about this one:
- I have 3 brothers, one of whom is a sister.
Go figure.
(-- submitted Sharon Tzur - shrontz(at)nonstop(dot)net(dot)il)
- I remember a blooper from many years ago when a pupil doing a 3pt. exam
translated 'piles of garbage' as 'thorim shel ashpa'
(-- submitted rivka zidkoni - rivkaz(at)internet-zahav(dot)net)
- A favorite of ours for Tu B'shavat...our 6th grade class was asked for
favorite recipes for the holiday..A student brought in his mothers
favorite fruit salad which included a half-cup of chopped
"tonsils".....(think Hebrew - almonds)
(-- submitted Sde Eliyahu Regional School - katt(at)internet-zahav(dot)net)
Comments about Student Bloopers
- Hi all!
The bloopers are great. I would like to point out a very positive side
to them. The bloopers show that students are grappling alone with the
language and not simply downloading paragraphs or asking private tutors to do
their work. Many of the bloopers actually demostrate an understanding of the
language. For example, the person who wrote adultery instead of adulthood
knew that he could add a suffix to form a different word.
Michele - benfam(at)internet-zahav(dot)net
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