Perks of the job; kids are hilarious

Even though most of my pupils are 15+ they still come out with some funny and brilliant things. Here are the highlights of my teaching career (lol) so far:

1. My usually sullen TSTG class getting seriously competitive over a game of articulate.

2. The kids in the collège playground playing three-player ping pong. (It involves running round the table, if you can try to picture it.) Brilliant idea.

3. The two girls who still always say hello to me even though I only take them once every four weeks.

4. The boy who didn't know how to say "I'm supposed to go back and send someone else in after 20 minutes" in English so instead laboured on alone, telling me about immigrant communities in Britain, for the whole hour-long lesson.

5. The looks on my 4ème's faces when I told them about Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

6. The boy who asked if I'd ever been to Aberystwyth, and the fact that the teacher didn't know where that was.

7. Doing pronunciation exercises when the teacher doesn't tell me what topic to cover: 'TH TH TH TH TH' 'H H H H H H'. Just like choral warm-ups, but they find it hilarious. 

8. The girl who, after much deliberation, replied 'Wales' when I asked her to name any country in the UK.

9. The trouble-maker in 3ème who shocked everyone by saying he wanted to join Homework Club. It later transpired that he didn't know what 'homework' meant.

10. The super smart sixteen year old in my Terminale Science who brought up punk rock in my 'What's Great about Great Britain?' class. Ten points to Gryffindor.