Once in the VHS in an English lesson, I asked a female student to read the part of a person in the text learning vocabulary.
The dialogue read, “Oh! My ankle (Knöchel) is killing me!“
Unfortunately, she read, “Oh! My uncle is killing me!“
NOTE: Interestingly enough, the English word for Uncle, is not the same as the English word Ankle.
Wit, Wit, Wit
Witz, Witz, Witz
“One reassuring thing about modern art is things can’t be as bad as they are painted.” Quote Walthall Jackson.
Amusing Story Two:
This year, whilst teaching English at a University in Germany, I taught on the subject of “Business English” in two separate groups/lessons.
I just finished marking their examination papers a couple of days ago. To the question regarding what measures were the British Government taking to make education in Universities available to everyone in society. One of the answers was that the Government would give a voucher (Gutschein) to students from poorer families so that they could go to University.
One student wrote that the British Government would give a student a Vulture (Geier) so that they could attend a University. Can you picture a person walking into the campus of a University with a Vulture sitting on their outstretched arm?
Griffon vulture, gyps fulvus, landing on a perch with wings spread in summer. Wild bird of prey with dark feathers, long neck and white head in Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria, Europe.
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