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Q: What was she teaching?
I had a lesson yesterday and the Chinese teacher in the next room had a class of about ten students, all of about nine years old, and I suddenly heard her say loudly "Dickhead" to which her students replied in unison "Dickhead." This then repeated and repeated, with her saying, clear as day, "Dickhead" and then them again, "Dickhead" over and over and over, causing me to fall into an uncontrollable fit of giggles. After a minute or so of drilling this, and confusing the Hell out of me, she started to continue in Chinese (her lesson is mostly grammar), but still every few minutes she'd call out again "Dickhead" and again they'd repeat in their sweet little voices, "Dickhead." And i'm still asking the same question: what the Hell was she teaching???
11 years 11 weeks ago in Teaching & Learning - China
I went through my teaching books, looking for similar lesson as you described.
If I am only foreign teacher at the School, I always listen and pay attention to English talk, because most likely somebody is talking to me. Sometimes Chinese talk English with each other, what I found it very funny, butt...
......Are you sure, Chinese teacher wasn't sending message to somebody with her 'lesson' ?
Nessquick:
yeah, maybe she want make sure that Martian will hear that 
mArtiAn:
Nope, don't think that's it, I get on fine with the girl. And Nessquick, you can lick the salty sweat off the underside of my nut-sack. Did you hear that?
Nessquick:
Hey Martian, Thanks, it was delicious :-) next turn is yours
mArtiAn:
My secret is just the faintest hint of lime. Glad you liked it.
I don't know, but I do agree with students learning slang (and swearing), to better integrate into western society.
Being able to identify the inappropriate words decreases the likelihood of them being accidentally used in conversation where it could prove embarrassing.
Brilliant. I had a similar experience myself (although I wasn't doing it deliberately) were I was once drilling the word "fork" with a load of kindergarten kids whilst their parents were watching; the following mispronunciation was hilarious.
mArtiAn:
Yep, been there myself. Sweet little girl of six saying 'f**k" over and over till I just had to drop it and move on. Once had a round of pornographic verbal tennis with a lady who was having trouble pronouncing the word 'Bangkok' too.
Her: Bangkook.
Me: Bangkok.
Her: Kook.
Me: Kok.
Her: Kok?
Me: Kok!
Her: (excilerated) Kok!!!
Hulk:
Oh my goodness. I see I'm not the only one with students who have trouble pronouncing l fork." I just ignore it, and continue, 'cause they're way too young. If i laugh, they'll all say it.
Maybe be it was "ticket" with an strong Indian accent.
mArtiAn:
I think that's the best answer yet. But somehow.......erm.....nope, still not it.
It's possible the previous foreign teacher was a scumbag who got a kick out of that, or maybe she was trying to pronounce "thicket" or "thick head"? Two of my assistants have unintelligible English, and one of them tries to correct me. However, two other assistants have pretty decent pronunciation, and I have no problem understanding them.
Don't be afraid to ask her to write down what she means. I do that sometimes when their English is so bad. Most people I run into can't correctly pronounce "l" or "th" sounds, so I teach them. The other teachers are happy to be corrected, and have started to speak much more clearly.
The "th" sounds are pronounced as "d" by some assistants. So when they ask me for something thick, "I need a thick [...]!", it gets awkward.
Obviously, she was teaching anatomy. 
mArtiAn:
I guess that explains her repeating the word 'ring-piece' so many times, later in the same lesson. Cheers. The problem is sol-ved.
Nice to see you around, by the way, Jihad old chap. I thought you'd defected.
giadrosich:
Naw. I'm still around. Mostly lurking, I guess. Been extremely busy lately. 
So did you ask her yet, what was it?
mArtiAn:
I don't know, she's such a sweet girl, asking her if she was shouting out the word 'Dickhead' for ten minutes in her lesson the other day just doesn't seem like something I want to do.
Maybe she was quoting the most recent debate on this website?
duck head ????
that's the only thing in english off the top of my head that i can think of that could easily come out as "dickhead" for someone who doesn't have good pronounciation.
