A Quick Thinking and A Teacher ...

I was invited by a college mate to conduct a workshop on MUET Speaking Paper on April 4th .. I was supposed to facilitate two groups; Session I - 830 - 10am and Session II 1030-12pm. I had a great time giving briefing to the first group, however in the second group I had 2 students who aged far older than I am. I wasn't very happy with their presence but what to do, I wasn't the organiser. Facing this two souls wasn't something I like. In the workshop, I had to butter the class up with a few dumb jokes to keep them 'alive' till 12. These 2 souls weren't very happy when I cracked my first dumb joke. Back to business, I saw a few other souls were yawning, that wasn't a good sign for teachers, don't u think? so I came up with another dumb joke, to my surprise one of the older guys' lips read, "stupid joke!" It wasn't kind to make that remark, was it? Disappointed and annoyed, I told them a story; When I was a MUET assessor, I had a case where I had a candidate who was very stuck up, the way she looked at us the assessors made us sick of her. So I emphasized that what she forgot was, HER MARKS were OUR control! Stating that, I turned to the guy's face and gave him a very 'kind' smile .. Thank GOD, he was good at reading between the lines, since that remark I made, he behaved and gave better attention ... Serve him right!