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[PeterBar]

Your English is excellent Kootvela, apart from a couple of typos.

Have you ever thought about taking a course "Understanding British Humour" ?

[Kootvela]

[mdk]

You probably shouldn't laugh off the interview grammar questions. Schools like BKC follow a set definition of prescriptive grammar. They want you to teach the way English should be spoken instead of how it is spoken in the street. (descriptive grammar) Moreover they want you to teach the students to speak like a news reader on the BBC.

If you are an American, as I am, you could find yourself half way through a lesson and realize that you have become confused on some esoteric (to an American) semantic point and are teaching the students the wrong way - if they want to masquerade as a BBC news reader.

The interview can be helpful to both parties. I once had an interviewer ask me what I would do if the company asked me to do something illegal or that totally violated my morals. That's why God gives rattlesnakes a rattle, so we can avoid them.