Anecdote

Luckily, Tara Kenway’s student didn’t expose anything more than a lack of English vocabulary!

I was having a discussion with a student about what it was like when he was at school; if he liked it, if he disrupted lessons, etc. He laughed and said he disrupted lessons a lot.

"We waited until the teacher said a certain phrase and then we all dropped our trousers!" he said.

"You did what?"

"We dropped our trousers! It made a lot of noise." Now he was laughing even more.

"You're sure it was your trousers?" I asked, pointing at my own.

"Oh, no!!! Not trousers! Pencil cases!"

The word 'pencil case' in French is trousse and he'd mixed the words up!