At a teacher happy hour on Friday, I was told this story by a middle school ESL teacher. It is so cute that it must be shared with the masses.
I guess she was trying to teach a lesson but her kids were getting too loud and feisty. After several attempts to quiet them down, she yelled, "You know what, why don't you guys just SHUT THE FRONT DOOR." (I applaud her for having the control to not say what she was really thinking, because I have definitely dropped the F-bomb before and it did not go over well.) The students got immediately silent and felt terrible, and then one really sweet kid got up out of his desk, went over to the classroom door, and closed it.
I do want to call this one an ESL fail, but truth be told, idioms are difficult. And this kid sounds like a winner.
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