Continuing the tradition from last semester, here are some more amusing or interesting answers from the students. Responding to comments from last time I did this, I've tried to include more answers which show the creative side of the students.
All that being said: Enjoy!
Junior 1 (12-14 y/old)1. What’s wrong with this boy? 
(didn't use this exact picture but it was basically the same)- His leg hearts.
- Grinning a leg.
- He has big eyes and big noes.
- Brozzila.
- His foot is injury, and he’s numbed expression gives me a feeling that his head is abnormal, too.
2. Name three types of natural disasters.- Water, flower, discuption.
- Vocanol, Thunami, Earthquack
- I’m black, so my name is black.
- Brozzila, Volcano, Ncance.
3. Give an example of something “lucky” and something “unlucky” in Western countries.- Lucky: Lucky clever.
- England Germany Italy Spain France
- Finding a penny is lucky and a bird poo on you is lucky.
- Franch is a something “lucky” country.
- China is unlucky because a lot of countries want to fight with China.
- Lucky: kiss. Unlucky: 5, 13, the moon.
- Lucky: the United States there people really rich. Unlucky: Saudi Arabia, a lot of people dead in it.
- Maybe Gob is unlucky in western countries . They believe God!
- The United States is lucky, because they killed Ben Laden.
- Western countries people is very happy. Because Ben Ladeng is die. So people love Oubama.
- Lucky: Your test is very good. Unlucky: My grandfather is died.
- I’m sorry, I forgot it. But I wanted to finish this question. So I writed something in this part. AAA I don’t know. It has got 5 points? AAA. I hated this question.
- Lucky: if you have a sick on your breakfast.
- Lucky: a man had a good wife.
4. What are the advantages and disadvantages of using a train?- I don’t know, please give me 1 point.
- There’re many people on the train. It’s slowly than plane and if there’s no train station, you can’t use it. But it’s quickly than walk, and if there’s a train station, it’s very good for go some place you don’t know the way.
- 1. open the door. 2. don’t crowded. 3. close the door. 4. don’t talking. 5. drive it. 6. sit down. 7. arrive you want to go. 8. down the train.
- In the train, I say “What kind of drink do you have?” In the train, I say “Do you have any drink?”
- If you are very quiet and have a good manner, you are advantages. But if you are not, so it’s the disadvantages.
6. Explain ONE of these idioms; window shopping, a bad egg, keep something under one’s hat
- On Monday morning, I eat a bad egg.
- One day, we ate cake, then a student wanted to leave, we were angry because it’s very early. We keeped a little cake under he’s a hat, then we were very happy.
- Keep sth. Under one’s hat: If you go to the supermarket, you put something in your hat and wear your hat. Then, shop assistant can’t find it.
- On Sunday, I go shopping with my mother. We buy a bad egg. My mother very unhappy. Then we buy keep something under one’s hat and window.
- In the window shopping, a bad egg is sitting in a armchair. He want to keep something under one’s hat. So he have a hat and keep something in there. Then give a hat to a people.
- We keep eggs under one’s hat. We also keep eggs under the trees.
- Bad egg means bad person. John is a bad egg!
- In the window shopping, there is a man in front of the window. He wears black coat and he is friendly with a hat. He says “can I pay for these windows?” Shop assistant says “Yes of course. Here you are. 150 yuan please.” He says, “Sorry I don’t have a lot of money. So I want to look another’s shop.” He got to the out. “Look! Keep something under one’s hat!” shop assistant says.
8. Write about Easter.- In Easter, everybody is very happy.
All the people is very happy.
Yes, it’s very happy.
Very happy.
Happy.
Yeah ~~~.
- What is Easter, I don’t know, let me see. Please give me one point.
- Easter is very big and very good. Some people in there are very happy. But the weather is not very good. On summer is very heat and in winter it’s very cold.
- A people is dead, then he Easter.
- On Easter Festivel, you can also draw something on yourself. It is a very funny day.
- In this day, people are really happy. They think a rabbit will coming and give them a beautiful and pretty life. And on this day, Jeans will gives them happy and lucky, which can protect them.
- Some baddy wears scary clothes and them also walk in road. People are very happy in this day and them eat candies. And people make some beautiful eggs.
9. What is your favorite country? Say why.- Germany is my favorite country. It’s really beautiful…Foods is Germany is very safe and healthy. I like toasts and butter, it’s really tasty. I eat it every morning when I’m in Germany
- Japan is my favorite country. Because I’m like Japan’s cartoon Detective Conan very much…I’m very want to go Japan. But now I can’t.
- My favorite country is Madagascar. Yes, it’s the place in a movie, “Madagascar”. I thin it’s a beautiful and magic country. How I know Madagascar? On a warm day, I found some beautiful natural pictures on “Baidu”. I saw many pretty pictures from a same place. It’s Madagascar. It’s a land next to South Africa. It’s poor and there’re no much people in Madagascar. There’re fresh air, big forest, wonderful natural land. Most of the people speak French. I love Madagascar, because I like natural and free.
- China! First, I live in China…China is a big country; it has a population of 1.3 billion people. They are all friendly…Last, China is my mother. I like her!
10. Who is your favorite star? Write about him/her, say why.- My favorite star is Jet Li…He can play Kong Fu very well…I think when he teacher me, I’ll play it well.
- My favorite star is Obama. Because he is the first president in America who’s skin is black. When he is young, he is not a good boy, even smoke bad things. But and then he thinks he must have a good future, so he study hard every day. And he becomes a president and a good speaker. He is friendly too. Children love him very much, he also wrote a book for children last year.
- My favorite star? Of course she is Jolin, a Chinese singer…Nothing’s gonna change my love for her, because she lets me know nothing is impossible if you have a willing heart. And she makes my life wonderful!
- I don’t have a favorite star. Because star is ugly.
Junior 2 (14-16 y/old)1. “It is better to be a king for two years and then die than a farmer for 10 years and then live.” Do you agree or disagree? Say why.”
- I disagree. I think a king has too many things to think. Many people don’t like him, but laugh to him everyday. Being a king can make a person tired. It’s difficult from a farmer, you don’t have to fear that someone will kill you, and happy everytime.
- I agree with that. I believe that being a king could have lots of chance to use power, live a high quality life. Although that brings a lot of responsibilities and maybe takes away your freedom, but you can have much more possibilities than a farmer to pursue your dream successfully. It doesn’t matter how long you live, it’s the value of your life that really counts.
- I want to enjoy my life, although being a farmer is not a good job. But if I’m happy, everything is impossible!
- Agree. Because the king is get murder.
- …I think it’s not worth living for only 2 years. The value of your life is not what you get, but the thing you sacrifice! If you are a farmer, you can plant trees and the things that people need. You are important for the country. Why don’t you be a farmer?! And you can live until you are old!
- Being a farmer cannot change anything but the plant he plants.
2. Explain the meaning of one of these idioms; Face like a wet weekend, Bite the hand that feeds you, Let the cat out of the bag, Give someone the cold shoulder.- I choose “bite the hand that feeds you”. I will use a story to explain, this is much better. A steel worker who named Jack has fallen in a deep river and was brought to a rich town. He was saved by the richest in this town. But when Jack knew the man who saved him is the richest people in the town and has got a billion dollar, he killed the richest man and rob his money. So we call this “bite the hand that feeds you.”
- Let the cat out of the bag. For example: Perk is a policeman, and Janet is a thief. Perk really wants to catch Janet but he has no idea – because Janet is so foxy. Perk know Janet likes money, so he tells the people, “There is a lot of money in XX bank now, Balabala…” and Janet heard about it. So she decided to go to the bank. And in the end, she find nothing in that bank, then Perk catches the Janet. This is let the cat out of the bag.
3. Imagine you are the headmaster of HEFLS. There is an earthquake coming to the school in 2 hours! What will you do? Explain your actions.- I won’t tell my students the truth, because I don’t think they will be calm enough to face the earthquake if they know the truth. I will tell them there will be singing competition the playground and everybody have to go come to the playground in 10 minutes. After everybody is on the playground, I will tell them the earthquake is coming and ask them to stay there.
- I’ll say the following things in the radio:
1. Don’t be afraid! Stay calm! Don’t just out of the building! (Stay calm and do something useful is much better than be afraid!)
2. Hider under the desk! Don’t run in the classroom! (If you hide under the desk, you have a chance to live.)
3. If you have some food and water, take them!
- I will buy a plane ticket. And by plane to a place.
- At first, tell the students the truth and calm down the students who are very exciting or angry…finally, wait for the army to save us.
4. Recently, Li Na won a famous tennis competition. Do you think this will change the way western people think about Chinese sports?- No, before Li Na, there are Liu Xiang, Yao Ming, and other sports stars, but western people didn’t change the way they think about us. So although Li Na won the competition, they still won’t change the way they think about Chinese sports. It’s only for a person, but not all China.
- Chinese sports is better than ten years ago, we can’t say Chinese is “sick people” in east Asia. Chinese are good.
5. Mother’s day, father’s day, children’s day, teacher’s day…if you could make a festival for a group of people, who would you choose? Why?- Cleaner’s day. We can see cleaners in every city, they are not famous, not rich, but they are hard working, they try their best to give us a beautiful city. In this way, I think they are great, so I think there should be a cleaner’s day.
- (also chose cleaners) If we don’t have cleaners, the trash will fly everywhere!
- People who are fat. In this day, these fat people can go to the store and eat everything you can eat. Because I think this day is interesting.
- Grandma’s day. I grew up with my grandma. My father and mother are too busy tot take care of me. I still remember that my grandma sang songs to me, or sometimes told a story at night. I didn’t want to sleep at night. So my grandma sang songs to me until I fall asleep. I love my grandma, I want to make a festival for her.
- Sleeping day…I think this festival also tell people: keep your body in health, sleep well everyday.
- Girl’s day. Because I’m a girl. I know being a nice girl is not easy. It’s too hard to be a wonderful girl. But girls are trying. So girls are tired. So I want to make a girl’s day on 12.12.
6. You are the boss of a company which makes Chinese food in America. Recently, some insects got into the food and made people sick. Write a speech explaining what you would say at a press conference. (note: there were SO many creative and funny answers to this question it was hard to choose just a few)- Oh! Sorry, sorry! I’ll take another one in a minute. Don’t be worry. And the money of this food, we’ll get back to you.
- Sorry, my friend. I’m a boss in this restaurant. Maybe Chinese food is too delicious. Insects also like this food. We can make a new one. I’m so sorry.
- Hello, everyone! I’m Linda Xie, the CEO of LX company. I’m sorry to hear that people got sick after they ate the food in LX. We always try to make safe food for customers to eat. It’s just that some workers worked with dirty hands so some insects got into the food. I want to say SORRY to everyone. And I promise to everyone, it won’t happen again! Sorry. Thank you.
- First, I need to apologize for the recent event. We made a mistake on making sure the food is able to eat. We will take out as much money as we can to help these people get ill because our fault. We will taking back all the problem food. Most importantly, it’s our company’s fault. Please don’t blame Chinese food. It has nothing to do with China. Hope you have a pleasant eating in the future.
- I believe you will love it when you are finished sick.
- Don’t you think you are really lucky that you eat this food? Even insects also want to eat it! And if you go to the hospital , you won’t have to go to work and have a good rest. Everyone thinks you are poor. And they will be good with you, so it’s a lucky thing you met!
- Insect’s food is our company’s new food. Eat insects with your food is very very special, isn’t it? What a great memory you had!
- Chinese food is very delicious, so everybody likes it very much. Then people may go to eat a lot of Chinese food. So it’s their mistake to eat too much Chinese food that made them sick.
- I am sorry to the people and I promise that won’t do again. The cook in our restaurant was fired. He was just new to t our restaurant. I will tell the other cook to be careful in that.
- Why the insects got into the Chinese food? Because the Chinese foods are really delicious and smell good! Someone of you must think it’s unfair, they eat for free. All right, I will let them pay for the food they ate. Thank you.
- I’m so sorry, today to mans went to my company, and they ate a broken food at last they sick. First I’m sorry to they. I will go to hospital and look after they.
- Now, eat some insect is very popular. In fact, protein in insects is very high. And that’s really healthy, isn’t it? And we are sure that the insect is free, and it is always delicious. Why not try some? We’re sure you can eat it without any problem.
7. Imagine you are a singer in a famous band. Write a diary telling us about you life; what do you do, your likes and dislikes, etc.
- My favorite music style is punk. I like music very much. I like coke, but I can’t drink too many or its bad for my throat.
- I really hate the person who don’t have their own achievement. That’s so bad! And I really hate the paparazzi. I have little privacy after they came.
- I hate people standing out of my apartment and call my name in the morning. I know they love my song but I want to sleep.
- First. Don’t believe in tabloids! They’re faking the news, they lied to everybody. And Paparazzi please leave me alone. Get away from me! The man with the pen, you don’t write anything good which is true, but you write everything that would not happen. We call it tabloid junk. Then I would say that don’t think I’m really glad to be such a popular singer. I’ve lost my childhood. I’ve lost my friend. All I’ve got is money or fake lawsuits. All I’ve got these, not about music. If I sing a song, they say I cheated the song. If I release an album, they say I’m just wanting money. Who’s wanting money? Liars.
8. What is your favorite country? Write as much as you can about it. Why do you like it?
- China. Cuz I’m a Chinese. In my soul and blood. It’s Chinese’s great culture and history. My country teach me that I could only have one nationality, and that would be China. Should there be more reason? Definitely not!
- China…If one day, I go to other countries, some people ask me, where are you from? I will say it very happily, I am from China! I love China.
- USA…The USA is a great place to eat! The goods you eat are from all over the world! So come to USA and let your stomach fall in love with the food, you even won’t have stomach ache forever!
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