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ESL student here. Back in the day, I believe in 1992 we had a couple of TEFL teachers, some of the frst Peace Corps volunteers in post-Soviet countries teaching English for our middle school classes. For what it's worth it was a bit annoying as most of the class wasn't really at the level to understand what the guy was talking about... but they were nice so we didn't mind that much. In one of the first classes we played a game where the guy pointed at parts of his body and let us say what it was called in English, like "hand", "nose", "hair" etc... I remember being proud at being the only one to know "tongue". When the guy pointed at his lower back though, then the consensus in the class was that most surely he meant "rear end HOLE!!!" rather than "butt" or whatever.  We had the old Soviet textbooks that were reprints from the 70ies in which black people were unabashedly termed "Negroes"... for whatever reason the guy had some problem reading these texts, and very nicely, never breaking a smile, kept substituting other words. 
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