English for insiders...

...or "2=-6=+9!?"

Ough, what a quirky day.

Sometimes during our voluntary english lessons I get reminded of my early school days... The teacher doesn't take his students very seriously and the level is in no way not even roughly arrousing my interest. Let me give you a nice example of our present-day lecture:

Teacher: "Pens ready - time for our dictation. While at university..."
Class: "What, what, what?
Teacher: "Don't bother, I'll repeat everything often enough."
[...]
Teacher: "Full stop. Now please change your sheets with your neighbour and count every mistake as -3 points. And then write down a total mark."
[...]
Teacher: "Now I'm going to give you a random noumber which today will be 15 and you make a normal arithmetic comparison between the random noumber and your mark. This will then be your grade. So, which grade do you have?"
Student1: "5"
Teacher: "plus or minus?"
Student1: silence
Teacher: "how much mistakes did you make?"
Student1: "20"
Teacher: "Then you have -45. See if you made 20 mistakes then you have an overall mark of -60 and your grade is -45! I have no problem if you do not understand everything, therefore we're here, right? But what I cannot stand is playing stupidity when it comes to such an easy mathematical calculation!"
Student1: silence
Teacher: "And you?"
Student2: "14"
Teacher: "Um, that can not be. How many mistakes?"
Student2: "5"
Teacher: "Ok then you have a plus 10 (<--!!)."

;)
kbo