Korean Job Discussion Forums

[rusty1983]

I cant pretend Im good at grammar, but improving and (thank god for internet anonymity on this) I am actually beginning to really love it!

Also, I have found that the explanations I get from textbooks are often disappointing and lack the finer details. I know it can be bad for students to get too involved in grammatical intricacies but you do feel stupid when you cant answer something right?

Do you guys know of a forum on which I can discuss it rather than here?

[lifeinkorea]

I used to visit www.usingenglish.com

However, a lot of these finer points end up being personal choice issues rather than right or wrong answers.

If you really want to serve your students the most (or is it the best? I choose "most"), then I suggest you find out what they are taking a test on before teaching them. Try to learn that material the best you can with common variations for daily conversation, but also what the tests will require.

If it is mostly conversation you are looking for, then one thing is to listen to people from different English speaking countries. Get a feel for how they use the language. I had an Australian roommate once ask me if I wanted to "hire" a movie. I jokingly asked how it was going to work for me.

This is not a fail-safe method, but you can also google phrases to see how commonly they're. If you get a lot of non-English speaking countries using it and not many references with .ca, .uk, .au in the domain names then it's likely some rule that has been applied beyond its intent.

In that case, if you go to the site I mentioned you will get people from those countries swearing they are correct and used a lot. It's only correct in a theoretical standpoint. In practice, you need to hear more than formulate.