Was in class yesterday with my year 7 elective class. Which consisted of three boys and five girls. We were searching for words in the dictionary. The teacher had them find a word that they liked and they were to spell it out and the rest of the class was to find out what it means.
The girls, sensibly chose words like, Snoopy, Charlie Brown, Humpty Dumpty (don't know why, go figure) And then, this boy started spelling out this word M.O.R.N.I.N.G G.L.O.R.Y , and I just couldn't help but giggle...The real meaning is that it's a plant's name. But, in our colloquial term, it means something else. Much unsuitable in a classroom scenario. So, that was the highlight of my day, watching kids searching for Morning Glory.
Today, the students had their mid-term exams. One of the question in the test for Yr9. was "What makes you sad?" I was marking the papers and I came across this answer "..Nothing, I'm always happy." Great answer, I would've given him a tick for being so imaginative and answering it with proper grammar and all..but no, it has to be one of those text-book answers to be correct. Sorry, kiddo. No wonder the students hates English...don't blame them.
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