A bad notice

"Let's practice ways to give bad news and good news" I said to my students today.

They went throught the introductory vocabulary exercise:

Being promoted

Getting married

Suffering an accident

...

and then I asked them to tell me if they had experienced anything similar.

"Yes", said one, "I cut my finger at work I had to give Anna a bad notice!"

If I didn't know Anna is his wife I might have thought that he had fired her for cutting his finger off rather than telling her some bad news!