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Joined: 27 Oct 2005
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Location: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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 Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:17 pm Post subject: Re: Learning to speak English....or to understand Shadowfax? |
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| I also do not find [archeology] or many other disciplines to be of particular in the EFL classroom, unless of course it is the subject of a lesson. Then again, while I have a great passion for cars, among other things, I would not see the need to centre an EFL lesson on automotive mechanics or, more pointedly, employ a motor-mechanic to teach English. |
You remind me of a course book I was using a few years ago with architecture students, full of putty and window panes and a whole chapter on the cooling system of a car, its parts and how it worked.
You can imagine how fascinated everyone was to hear about that.
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| But it is doubtful if a person who names himself with reference to a soft drink, spelt in a manner to mimic Asian pigeon English, |
There's nothing wrong with pidgin English:
"Universal Declaration of Human Rights
For December 10, 1948, di meeting of di whole world, wey dem de call United Nations (naim be say all di kontris wey de for di world come unite to be one), come hold talk and dem come bring out one paper and write wetin suppose to be our right inside. Dem call am Human Rights. Dis na di rights wey human beings get from di time wey dem born us. Na dis rights make human beings take different from animals."
http://www.unhchr.ch/udhr/lang/pcm.htm
It's kinda hard to learn though. No course books!
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Which, according to Pooh, must be somewhat the opposite of a contradiction?
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| And as it happens, I find Indiana Jones movies infinitely more interesting than many of the canons of English Literature. |
Hey! You leave Bevis and Butthead out of this!
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