Sometimes I have them bring words/phrases that don't understand, such as "What's up?", to class and write them on the board so we can talk about them.
One day, an evangelical student from El Salvador wrote this on the board:
choke the monkey
I erased it, asked him where he heard it, and kept a totally straight face through this explainantion:
(read slowly with a "Mexican" accent)
I wass walking wi my frenns from the seminary? - seminarians? - seminary? - OK - and we leff a house* and the man yell out the window out his door "Choke the monk-eee!!!!" and I was like "Wha? Choke the monkey? What is choke the monkey mean?"
*after trying to discuss the lord jesus christ with a random stranger
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