Sunday, January 20, 2013

Memorable conversations 2.0



When teaching my 4th grade about the continuity of life, I asked the students to draw their family trees. One of the students came up to me with a genuinely worried expression.
Student: Miss, main kese banaunga? Ap ko pata hai mere dada ki kitni biwiyan hain?
Me (anticipating a number between 3 and 5): Kitni?
Student: Saat, miss, saat! Unke baais bachay hain!
Me (trying not to laugh): Ap apnay family tree main sirf apnay abbu ki ammi ka likhiye ga.


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Student: Miss, ap teeno ke aanay se pehlay mujhe kuch nahi aata tha, ap kisi se bhi puch lein! Miss ab mujhe sab kuch ata hai!

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During a test I was conducting, one of the students was constantly making trouble. I asked him to sit quietly several times but to no avail.
Me (exasperated): 'Please! Test kero!'
Student: Test kerun? Kya main koi doctor hun kya jo test kerun? Doctors test leta hai!
(I had to turn back towards the board to keep me from laughing at his witty comment :p)

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One of the students brought a present for one of my co-fellows and after school was over she mentioned how she was going to bring something for the two of us remaining fellows.
Me: Nahi, ap mat lana hamarey liye kuch, humein ijazat nahi hai students se tohfay lene ki.
Student (in a sad and confused voice): Miss lekin ap kyun nahin lengi? Madam to hum se mangwati hain, wo tou le leti hain!

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Student (asking for more questions): Miss do danay aur deo?

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A couple of second graders came to my class during break as I was remediating their sister who’s in third grade.
One of the second graders: Miss main pehle class three mein hoti thi apni behn ke sath. Kya ap mujhe wapis class three mein le sakti hain?
Me: Tou ap class two mein kese gaein?
Second grader: Miss ye meri cousin fail hogai thi tou wo akeli thi tou main iske sath class two mein hi reh gai. Kya main ab wapis aa sakti hun?

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In a third grade quiz on light, I had given the students a question in which they had to name three sources of light. I caught a student sitting blank. Going up to him I asked what's the matter and he told me that he didn't know the answer. So I explained the question to him.
Me: Ap batao konsi cheezon se roshni milti hai? Koi cheez hai jis se roshni nikalti hai?
Student: Sooraj?
Me: Likho usay!
He started writing and I moved away. Later that day as I was checking the tests, I came across his and saw that he had written the work 'Sooraj' (Sun) and then erased it. Next to it, however, was a picture of a gun. Source of light. Yeah.

1 comment:

  1. hahah,some of these conversations are so cute!!
    And some,like the last one these, so insightful. It's so sad what our nation is going through =(

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