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maniac · Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 15 Location: Global

Hi Guys

Allow me to join this discussion

I went for a tele-interview about 3 weeks ago, still no offer. What can I read into that?

Can anyone shed some light on course, what books to they do. Is it like the schools in KSA where they hand you the teaching manual and the weely program, and expect you to follow that, they don't allow much inovation and deviation from the prescribed text.

I am a teacher that likes to prepare in adance for my classes, I even prepare during the holiday before school start. That is why I want to know more about the actual program

Pikgitina · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 420 Location: KSA

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 5:42 pm Post subject:

Thanks, P! Me, myself, and I hadn't noticed the typos in this weely, weely good post!

NCTBA Very Happy

maniac · Joined: 01 Jun 2009 Posts: 15 Location: Global

well, I was sitting in a dark room, one eye on the pc and another on the TV, typing my post. Oh, and this is not grammar school. Just answer the question, that is enough.

You are probably from the US or UK, who always want to show the world how much you know and how little others know.

What must a person do to just have a decent discussion without being judged,

The objective of language is to communicate and to exchange ideas, being 100% correct is just a bonus. That is the problem with many language teachers, they shackle their students with so many rules that they too affraid to speak or express themselves.

But then again the brits and the yanks knows best.

Never Ceased To Be Amazed · Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:39 pm Post subject:

Ya know, altho, I didn't catch the typos of this post first Wink

, there is a saying that comes to mind with the followup post: The best defence is a good offence. Rolling Eyes

NCTBA

johnslat · Posted: Wed Jun 10, 2009 7:39 pm Post subject:

Dear maniac,

"The objective of language is to communicate and to exchange ideas, being 100% correct is just a bonus. :

Well, except for the fact that sometimes being incorrect can communicate the wrong ideas:

"It's time to eat, John."

"It's time to eat John."

In the first, a parent is calling her child to dinner.

In the second, the castaways on a desert island, having run out of food, have chosen their next meal.

Yup, I'm from the U.S., where all 306 million of us always want to show the world how much we know. What can I say - it's a national trait, bred in the bone. We even make prospective citizens take classes in how to do it before they can be naturalized. Arnold Schwarznegger passed with flying colors.
Regards,
John

Pikgitina · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Posts: 420 Location: KSA

trapezius · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:13 am Post subject:

It must be great earning loads of money teaching Engrish.

johnslat · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:33 am Post subject:

Dear trapezius,
Hold on there, old man. You're not from the USA or the UK, are you? If not, you have absolutely NO right to show the world how much you know.
That's reserved ONLY for us.
Regards,
John the very much knowing

trapezius · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 10:56 am Post subject:

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

eye kent hep butt notiss al the ohmishins hear. weely, weely eye kent hep it.

No but in all fairness (dont you friggin hate that expression, "IN ALL FAIRNESS"? I MEAN WTF??!!! "ALL fairness"??? Would only HALF fairness be honorable?) the guy just wanted to know a few things.

johnslat · Posted: Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:35 pm Post subject:

Dear eclectic,
True, but stuff such as this:

"You are probably from the US or UK, who always want to show the world how much you know and how little others know."

gets my goat (and, could I please have him back - the sheep miss him.)

Regards,
John

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

Dear Johnslat,

True, true, indeed. I also feel a missing "s" as in his sentence "...before school start" is the most tell-tale of all. What tale does it tell? A tall one. Like "I am an English major", let alone "I am an English teacher"!

Typo are typos, such as "what ddo you say..." or "when di you go to Egypt?", but some errors SIMPLY CANNOT be chalked up to either laziness or insufficient lighting (as he claimed so desperately).

In liverwurst, i.e., he seals the deal when he xenophobes right out the door with that US/UK malarchy. Clearly he is either Phillipino or some other "English"-speaking person looking to make some sourdough above and beyond his local currency. Which I don't blame him for at all, financially atleast!

But he should not lay all his cards out fan-wise on the table so ham-fistedly, clawing at that smoked pork butt type of in-your-face presentation.

Cool

Green Acres · Joined: 06 May 2009 Posts: 260

Mmmm. Smoked butt pork. I want mo' an mo' and mo'

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

yeah the Freirich brand is real damn good.