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billbob
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 Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:50 pm Post subject: Colloquial English Resource |
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Here's a vid to exploit with your higher-level students. It's genuine colloquial English, natural speed, with an accent you don't get in the movies (UK East Anglian).
Maybe people from other parts can post, then we'll have a bank of different accents and varieties of English?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EV-m0EyHUz4
Merry Christmas everybody!!! |
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scot47
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| Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2014 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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| I cannot understand them. Why should my students ? |
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spiral78
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Maybe useful to identify and practice strategies for getting people to re-state stuff that was unintelligible the first time around?
I agree that understanding colloquial English is only really useful if the student is moving somewhere it's spoken, and then it's most efficient to learn it in situ... |
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billbob
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Agamemnon
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| Posted: Tue Dec 23, 2014 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Sorry, but this is an exercise in what exactly?
What wonderful ambassadors of our country and our language, no wonder I'm in no hurry to go back! |
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