Tuesday 4 August 2020

My students so far today

Today one of my students said, just like many other times before "this doesn't have sense" - How can I get them to memorise the equivalent phrase in English?  "make sense" - this doesn't make sense. Repeat, repeat repeat but what if they just don't bother?

Another student online: when asked how are you?  he says "I am blessed and you"  no punctuation marks, by the way. Apparently he's heard it many times. videos about how to answer the question in what I called "international English" instead of this  "culturally charged" reply, influenced by their country socialising questions, where religion plays a bigger role than in our more secular Europe.
An near-B1 who wants to be C1 in about 6 weeks.


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