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[Imdramayu]

From your experience, what are the top job interview questions about grammar? What grammar points were you quizzed about @ job interviews?

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[veiledsentiments]

I've never been asked a grammar question in an interview, but from what has been reported here, they are big on conditionals and their permutations.

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[ultraman111]

Yeh, modal vebs for advice....

explain the unreal conditional........or the structure of the unreal conditional.


If I had gone to the Soccer game, I would have seen Australia whip those Saudi ametuers.

[JerkyBoy]

The 3rd Conditional to express regret

[johnslat]

Dear JerkyBoy,

Or just use the "useless" perfect modals:

I could have been rich and famous. I should have never gone there. I would have been happier in Japan.

I call them "useless" because regrets about the past are - you can't change the past (although the past can and does change you.)

Regards,
John

[JerkyBoy]

coulda

shoulda

woulda



"If I hadn't bought those blatant lies the recruiter told me, I wouldn't now be up shit creek without a paddle."

etc.

[JerkyBoy]

[cultofpersonality]

No wonder why Saudis are so weak at speaking the language. Unreal condition/modal verbs...how will this benefit the Saudi who doesn't know how to construct a basic sentence?

I wasn't asked any grammar questions during my interview. They probably assume that with your CELTA you know the basic ingredients of English needed to teach to ESL learners.

[johnslat]

Dear cultofpersonality,

Depends on what level you're teaching. It would seem, from your post, that your experience has been with beginners, or, at the most, elementary / lower intermediate students. But the students I taught at the higher intermediate and advanced levels needed such structures both to pass the TOELF and to do at least OK in graduate level programs in the States.

Regards,
John

[Grendal]

[veiledsentiments]

[JerkyBoy]

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