It isn’t often my students say something funny, because they’ve got the safe answers memorized well. But that doesn’t mean they won’t occasionally slip, like yesterday’s boy who “liked chests” or another student who said, “The bird is in the tree,...

“I like chests.” Said by a student during a review of body parts. The really funny part is that it was such a casual, matter-of-fact comment. Even after several other students and I started laughing, he didn’t seem to realize the severity of what...

Better Off Ted (Season 1) Once The Office started getting too dramatic, it left a hole in my life waiting to be filled by sillier office-related shenanigans. Better Off Ted may have overdone the silly, though. Most of the ABC comedies I’ve seen are...

This restaurant is one of the easier places for fresh-off-the-plane foreigners to eat at, because it’s cafeteria-style and makes no apologies about how long the food has been sitting out. Seriously, don’t go in the off-hours. All the good food is gone,...

Debates are occasionally hilarious activities to do with an EFL class and occasionally hair-pullingly frustrating depending on how old your students are and how well they embrace make-believe. I once tried setting up silly debates like “should money be...