This is an article for teachers and it explains some of the characteristics of great teachers based on a personal research in 2019. Hopefully this is helpful.

1. FIVE FUNNY WORDS
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2. I was watching my students play chess and a forceful
move made by one of the players with the dark-squared
bishop astonished me. Since neither of them is familiar
with common terms in chess so I decided to explain the
bishop’s simultaneous attack on the opponent’s knight
and King by saying, “Brilliant, that move you made with
the bishop is called a fork”. None of the students
appreciated my effort, instead they chuckled and
pretended the information I provided was irrelevant. I kept
on watching the game while thinking what I did wrong
until the awkward silence helped me to revisit my
statement in my mind. Then it struck me, my students
must have given my words a misrepresentation.
Moments later, I couldn’t help but say, “Common guys,
fork! Like a cutlery, someone get a dictionary please.”
Regardless, I don’t think they were impressed because
the chuckling ad awkward silence continued, which got
me thinking, maybe if I had reconsidered my words then I
could have avoided this strange outcome. This article
focuses on some regular statement teachers use and
how funny it could play out in the mind of teenagers.
Jones Oluwatosin

3. My period is over !
Maybe when a male teacher says it,
nothing feels wrong but with a female
teacher, I certainly wonder how far the
thoughts of college students would
travel to unravel more interpretations to
the expression. After a sensitive topic in
biology, a female teacher who has done
a great job explaining the human body
decides to announce, “My period is
over.” She has done no wrong but the
joke is in the mind of the students if
there is going to be any.

4. Do you have me now?
This might not be entirely about
profanity since students can recreate
the teacher’s words in so many different
ways for their amusement. Teachers
often say “do you have me now?” which
is a question to ascertain if it is time for
the subject in particular and students
may reply, “Yes, we have you now” or
“No, we don’t have you now.”
Regardless of which response is giving,
it is just awkwardly funny, the way the
question sounds and the possible list of
responses students can produce.

5. Are you finished?
This statement gets me every time I say
it and I have enjoyed several funny
responses from learners. If the student
were to respond "I am finished", in the
relevant context can mean that he or
she is doomed or beaten or defeated,
or perhaps that he or she is about to
come to an end, most likely die. I guess
it is better to separate the individual
from the task when asking such
questions or completing the phrase with
words that allude the task in question.

6. Few minutes to go !
This is quite common during a test,
quiz, or class activity. More often, I yell,
“few minutes to go” or sometimes a
particular number of minutes, to remind
the students of the time left for the
exercise. Whatever reply any student
with a good sense of humour says
would be hilarious. Such as, “to go
where?” or “where are we going?” or “to
escape this unnecessary mind torture?”
I feel a better expression could be, “the
test would be over in few minutes” or
“you are to submit within five minutes.”

7. And so on and so forth !
This is a statement teachers say when
giving examples and they are out of
ideas or suggestions. Seriously! This
statement is funny, especially when the
students and teacher say it in form of a
call and response. Considering that both
”so on” and ”so forth” have the same
meaning and are interchangeable, their
usage is as et cetera. Well it seems the
sentence is an idiomatic expression,
regardless it is laughable.

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