Friday, May 25, 2007

Make adverbs, not jokes


Last week I had a English class lead by a very nervous teachers student. He held a lesson on how to make adjectives into adverbs. Many if not everyone of us students had heard about this several times before but he was to nervous to notice that. In the end of the lesson we got a few adjectives to make adverbs out of by our selves for a few minutes and then he questioned us how we did. Still very nervous he didn't hear what we were answering and asked the same question over and over again.

Actual excerpt:

Teacher: If the adjective is hard, what is the adverb?
Me: Hard.
Teacher didn't hear me and continued: Did anybody write hardly?
Me: Hardly...
Teacher: But that is wrong Alex, the adjective is hard. Does anybody know what hardly means?
Me: Hardly.
Teacher: Yes, do you know what hardly mean?
Me: Hardly.
Teacher: Yes, do you know what it means?
Me: Almost not at all. I barely have an idea of what it means.

Teacher explains it in Swedish since he is sure I don't know.

Teacher: Can anyone make a adverb out of sarcastic?
Me: Sarcastically I can't.
Teacher: What?
Me: Sarcastically...
Teacher: That is correct, great Alex.

And so the lesson went on.

I am glad my term is coming to an end. I have just gotten a great job and might not be coming back to school this fall. But that is another post.

3 comments:

TjAnders said...

:-D
Jag kan inte låta bli att skratta åt hur dråpligt det är med lärarstuderande ibland. Det är likadant med läkarstuderande... Jag har det senaste halvåret "bara" råkat ut för ungefär 7 st läkarstuderande... Gissa i vilka situationer!

Men nu blir jag jättenyfiken!
Jobb?

Anonymous said...

HA HA HA!!! :D Subtle sarcasm rules!

Anonymous said...

28/5
Sjung om studentens lyckliga dag,
låtom oss fröjdas i ungdomens vår!
Än klappar hjärtan med friska slag,
och den ljusnande framtid är vår.
Inga stormar än,
i våra sinnen bo,
hoppet är vår vän,
vi dess löften tro,
när vi knyta förbund i den lund,
där de härliga lagrarna gro,
där de härliga lagrarna gro!
HURRA, HURRA, HURRA, H U R R A!!!!!

Det är mycket imponerande att du klarat av studierna och det med sån glans!
Kramar
Mamma