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PeteJB
Joined: 06 Jul 2007
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Yep that's right.
Usually though, people will inflict it on themself when someone has a long face: 나 재미없지?  |
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iiicalypso
Joined: 13 Aug 2003
Location: is everything
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:35 am Post subject: |
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There are some excellent suggestions. When I muster up enough enthusiasm I might just try them.
Until now, my solution has been to simply agree with them. For example:
STUDENT: "Teacher, I am boring!"
ME: Yes, you are.
Not really teaching, but I figure anything that can amuse me enough to face the little monsters for another period is good enough. |
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mack4289
Joined: 06 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Sat Aug 25, 2007 1:58 am Post subject: |
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Bored is passive and boring is active. "I am bored by English" (passive)="English is boring" (active). Doing a sentence transformation exercise like that could be good.
For example: "What are you (bored/excited/embarrassed/etc) by?"
"I am _____ed by A."
"So what is _____ing?"
"A is ___________ing." |
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SPINOZA
Joined: 10 Jun 2005
Location: $eoul
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| Posted: Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:35 am Post subject: |
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_____ed (people's feelings)
_____ing (things, like soccer games or classes
* be sure to point out to a Korean that, whilst describing a person as 'boring' is a correct utterance, it is very offensive....whereas describing someone as 'bored' or looking bored is an observation that they don't appear to be having any fun.
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| Fun is an uncountable noun. |
and an adjective.
Did you have fun? (noun)
Yes, the game was fun. (adj)
Fun and funny is irrelevant here, however, unfortunately, but it's always good to cover that. Because of 재미, which seems to occupy the same concept as "amuse" (funny amused? or amused like an amusement park?) Koreans use 'funny' wrongly, since the rule for 'funny' is very straightforward (laughing, humor). Some words for 'funny' in Korean are 웃기는 (involving laughter....웃기는 농담, a funny joke), 익살맞은 (comical, droll). 'Funny/strange' is 기묘한.
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Much better for folks to stick with _____ed (people's feelings); _____ing (things, like soccer games or classes
Are there any exceptions?
**here's a good 10 minute task: write "____ feel/feels/felt _____ed because ______ is/are/was/were very ________ing"
Write the vocab they need: excited/exciting, bored/boring, surprised/surprising, interesting/interested, scared/scary, amused/amusing, tired/tiring, loved/loving. |
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