A few notes about food

So my students are writing an argumentative essay in their Advanced Reading and Writing class. Among the topics I listed for them to choose from, there is one, against which I would be naturally very biased :) Vegetarianism - Voila! Interestingly enough, a lot of them ended up choosing this particular topic, BUT not all of them accepted the "pro" side - BAD MOVE :))) hahahah but I will keep it professional ;)
Anyways, I was reading their outlines today, and came across a number of hilarious word choices and collocations. As it turns out, "vegetarians, vegetables, vegetarian diet, vegetarian food" are all one and the same for my students, AND "it" is edible too! So here we go:

"The vegetarian can make the brain more intelligent."

[The Power of Vegetarians! We are magicians and mind manipulators :)]

"As a result, they choose to be vegetarians and eat vegetarians for reasons."

[But that makes sense! If a person is a vegetarian, then there's nothing but plants in his system; so, if you eat a vegetarian, you eat processed veggies, right? ;)]

"Vegetarians is good for environment."

[Exactly! We do not emit fumes! or do we?... ;)]

ESL Advanced Grammar

"I was very frightening when I had to walk home alone at night."

Was he wearing a costume or just generally 'a bad day'? :)

ESL Advanced Grammar: Passive Voice

Instructions: Make an Active sentence Passive:
Active: Someone has moved the table to the corner.

The student is writing a passive sentence:
"The table is moving to the corner."

OMG! It's alive! ALIVEEE!

or it may also be an episode from Paranormal Activity :)

ESL Intermediate Listening and Speaking: Dictation

"But when his roommate with his up [wakes him up], he doesnt want to get up. The roommate is very cold and dark, and he wants to go back to sleep."


That is scary - was he living with a decaying corpse? o_O

ESL Advanced Reading and Writing: sentences with new words:

disastrous:

"Last Sunday I went shopping. It was disastrous. Nothing liked me."

... and she must have been trying soooo hard for somthing to like her :)

ESL Advanced Reading and Writing - the REAL deal :)

And yet, again, from a student's essay on negative effects of computers on children:
"The Internet is a complicated place (!) flood with lots of violence and pornography."

OMG, I'm CRYING:
"The base contents in the internet will cause mental problems (!) among children."

"If a student needs to research information for school, they merely access a relevant site and download the computer (!!!)"
Apparently, there is some new technology concealed from ordinary people :)) call it 'magic'?

from a student's essay (harmful effects computers may have on children):
to fully appreciate the line - context the sentence is taken from: "Children can easily access dangerous websites."
"...they may get curious about sex. More so, they may copy what they see, and if they are trying to have sex, probably the panther (omg!) will be the close to their age."

more about computers:
"Computers have harmful radiations that can clown (o_O) human brain and this clowning (!) results to brain disability to think (omg..), specially, the harmful radiation may cause nausea, lose hair, skin illness, in addition, over using computer will affect children's eyesight."
Are you still staring at the screen?!... Ruuuuun before you become a funny bald mentally disabled clown!

from a student's essay. Topic: "Why do some friendships end?"
"The third reason for spoiling friendship (!) is temptation (!). [...] They {temptations] can be money, porn (!), and power."
I just love the word choice! :)

same paper: "Getting new friends, hiding (!), and temptations (!) all can be the reasons of abortion (!) of friendship."

BEWARE!

"You can get blind by seeing too much computer."

Intermediate Listening and Speaking students writing a dictation:
"On Friday night they go dancing, and on Sunday they go ice skiing."
and another one: "On Friday night they go dancing, and on Sunday they go ice hiking." hmmm... don't know which one is more exciting?!

Advanced reading and writing student writing an essay about the negative effects computers may have on youngsters:
"According to the data of investigation (!), the computer radiation can damage to the child intake of brain." o_O
I wonder what's the amount of brain a child should "intake" daily? :))