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[mcl sonya]

[englishgibson]

[Girl Scout]

I never said I would kill them ... just do something evil.

I also teach writing, which is why "because", "etc.", "and so on" bother me so much. I try to ban these from their assignments, but then they bring me examples from texts. Thanks to British textbook, etc/and so on are everywhere. Because is a lot easier. Yes, I know how to explain it.

Since, I only teach lower level oral I never really thought about it. However, over this weekend I spent time with some students and you are right. They do say it everywhere.

If we can correct it in their oral, don't you think it will appear less in their writing? It has been my experience that they writing the way they speak, then correct the grammar later.

[arioch36]

Girl Scout

[englishgibson]

yes it is..but i feel they break english into "oral", writing, reading and listening classes a way too often in china..from my experience and in my professional opinion, a student of english needs all of the above mentioned in one piece..i mean, if you want a good speaking class, you need to prompt your student(s) and that with some kinda vocab wich should come in listening, reading or even as a grammar exercise first..in china, they want those ch-english teachers do the prep work before we come on stage..that's where a part of this problem of using the language inappropriately comes from .. then, there're those lovely authorities that create the rules in education system here

cheers and beers to reading, writing listening and oral english

[arioch36]

I give my oral students vocabulary tests. I say the word, they spell it, then must use it in a sentence. For freshman, I use a common extensive reading book, that each unit has a good list of 15 or 20 vocabulary words.



I think I must be the Oral Glas Soup Nazi!
They also must write their own dialogues (not every week), and each sentence must be a complete sentence using a conjunction or prepostion that gives some additional information. Underline the vocab words they use. I taught Law clas 042 and 043. They compared me to the 041 FT who gave no homework. I didn't realize how much work it really was for them, I am making the load lighter this semester. This is the beauty if you can teach the same class writing and oral, or writing and movie, or (seldom happens) you can get together with another teacher of the same class and coordinate.

I have usually taught at Tier two or lower. The students aren't all that lazy. they are taught by the system to become lazy and turn their minds off, because it is the best survival strategy

[englishgibson]

i've always enjoyed students sentences on words they learn...it's amazing when you understand every word but're clueless what the sentence really means

cheers and beers to us as well as to our strivin students