Language Teachers Gifts

"The first goal of our ad hoc committee should be to learn Latin."

Kids talking street slang. Parent: "Their foreign language lessons are going well."

We hadn't realised your body language was French....

A Puppet Named Juan

Campaign for Plain English

Nathaniel Hawthorne

'You gotta learn to talk, Jeffrey -- it's part of the aging process.'

Punctuation Police

Peter's Pitas - now with pickled peppers.

"You've got to learn about verbs. How else are you going to verbalize your feelings?

'What amazes me most is that years ago I couldn't even spell teacher - now I are one!'

Shakespeare was bisexual

Smith Academy. A Tradition of Excellense.

"Let's fall in love and live in the subjunctive."

Thomas Hardy

Contemporary English Lesson: The Cat was Sat on the Mat.

"Nevermore." "You don't have to use 'air quoths' every time."

'She speaks 6 languages and can't say 'No' in any of them. . .'

'Now, what's Italian for pizza?'

Harv's general clumsiness with prepositions comes back to haunt him.

'I hope you ain't got no tax up here!'

"Today I came across antiderenuclearizationalityness."

Henrik Ibsen,

"He just found that 'pillage' rhymes with 'village'."

Sometimes Y Turn

Lord Byron

We Will Beat Any Genuine Quote...

Staff Yearbook

"This is an excellent story, Doris, so far."

"'Grim Reapers' was considered too offensive, these days we're known as 'afterlife facilitators.'"

Present Tense/Present Simple/Present Progressive/Present Perfect/Present Past.