Students Reveal Embarrassing Mistakes | Story Time - English Listening Practice

Hi there, you really like boobs don't you? In fact when I revealed my big English

boobs recently you guys had a great time and if you haven't seen that video where

I reveal my big boobs then you definitely should go and catch up on

that one first. It'll be appearing above my head now and

it'll be in the description box below but after me revealing my big boobs all

my students started revealing their boobs as well so I thought you'd enjoy

me sharing them with you too. Now before you rush away screaming I'm not talking

about breasts I'm talking about mistakes. Embarrassing mistakes that we all make,

even me, when using the English language. Now in the last video I did make a boob,

I made a big mistake. I said the word boob in American English is used to mean

mistake I was later corrected by many Americans.

Sorry America. I was corrected and actually after doing a lot more research

I found out boob in British English can mean mistake as well as breasts as well

as a silly person and as well as a bird but today is all about embarrassing

mistakes. So make yourself comfortable and here are five of my students big

boobs.

The first story comes from another English teacher who was out in Thailand

teaching a class full of beautiful angelic little children and he had some

flashcards with images he had an apple, he had a ball, he had a

clock, and so on, and all he wanted to do was go through the alphabet. He held up

the Apple the children shouted "a for Apple" he held up the ball and they all

shouted "b for ball". The trouble was their L's, their dark L's weren't very good.

In some languages the dark L is difficult as I'm sure some of you will

know. Now when he held up the third picture of a clock the whole class of

little angelic children shouted "c for cock". I'm sure that most of you will

know what the word cock means but if you don't it's another word, a crude word

for, a man's penis, not something you want your children to be saying.

The next story came from a YouTube viewer who said they'd started a brand

new job and they were talking about their career with their new work

colleagues and very happily sat there and told everyone that she'd always been

a working girl, which she meant you know she worked all her life. She'd never

taken any time out, but they don't realise that working girl in British

English actually means prostitute. If you're a working girl you're a

prostitute. So she told her new colleagues "I've been a prostitute all my

life, I've sold my body" and if you're not sure what prostitute means perhaps look

it up in an online dictionary.

The next story is a lovely story that I read again in my youtube comments from a

student who works on the phones and one day told someone that they were going to

be put on hold, and the phrase they used was "please be a bear with me" what she

meant to say was "please bear with me" and that phrase means wait please, bear with

me, wait for a moment, and I'll be back but she said "please be a bear with me"

Grrrr. Two more stories to go guys and these are both absolute classics but the

penultimate story comes from a student who was sat in an English class and he

was told "In today's class we're going to discuss politics" and he thrust of his

hand into the air and said "I love politics in fact I have a big erection coming up". A big

erection coming up. An erection, if you don't know, means the action of a

man's penis becoming hard, a hard-on. So he just said I have a big erection

coming up. What he meant was "I love politics I have a big election coming up

in my country". Now again that's that difficulty with the dark L so it's very

important that you really master the pronunciation of the dark L so you don't

tell everyone that you have an erection coming up.

The last story is absolutely priceless and it really highlights some of the

differences between British English and American English so this particular

student works in a big corporation and was attending a drinks event a

get-together full of big wigs that means very important people not the kind of

place where you want to embarrass yourself. So imagine the scene. A very

senior member of staff, very senior, is standing holding two drinks (perhaps

one he was holding for a friend who'd popped to the bathroom, the toilet) in

British English we call this being double parked and if you see someone

who's double parked we generally go "hey you're double parked" but an American lady

walks over and goes "hey you're double fisting". Now the man was unsurprisingly

shocked. Now I debated whether or not I should

share with you what fisting actually means but you see it's a very extreme

sexual act and a little bit embarrassed to describe it to you and so I think the

best thing for you is to Goog.... no don't google it. Definitely don't google it, you

don't want double fisting on your google history. So I'll just leave it to your

imagination but you do not want to approach a senior member of staff in a

party and loudly say oh you're double fisting. Bad career move, a very bad career

move. In fact that's probably the biggest boob that's ever been revealed to me.

Alright guys that's as much boob as I can cope with in one lesson I need some time

off but I definitely think there are more boobs coming your way in the future.

If you have any boobs that you would like to reveal then please go ahead put

it in the comments box below. If you did enjoy this and if you

found it useful which hopefully you did because learning through humor is the

best way to learn, you know what to do don't forget to subscribe. If I have

offended anyone I am sorry my intention is always to inform. Until next time take

care and goodbye!