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[soulofseoul]

[quote="schwa"][quote="soulofseoul"]Im talking about using the word in everyday conversations. How many times do you say vet as a verb to your friends or family? Uhmmm..thats right. NEVER[/quote]
I might & they would understand me perfectly.[/quote]

MIGHT and chances are you wouldnt. If this never came up in this thread then you probably would never think of using it...but since Im saying its not a common verb used daily then now you say you use it. Nice try.

[Julius]

[edwardcatflap]

[soulofseoul]

[quote="edwardcatflap"][quote]Vet is NOT a common as a verb in North America. Since my students mainly use Amercian English then I wont be teaching it to them[/quote]

I don't think anyone would think 'vet is quite a common verb, I think I'll go into class and teach it today'. However if it appeared in a reading or a listening you would probably deem it high frequency enough to tell the students what it meant. If you happened to be teaching a business class where you were setting up a role play based on a meeting between HR managers, who had to decide how they should check up on potential employees, you might think it worth pre-teaching.[/quote]

of course if it came up in an article I would explain it. And yes it would be useful for business students. But Im not going out of my way to suddenly teach that verb to regular conversation class students as something they need to cruically know. Ill focus on more important things first. Vet as a verb isnt important

[soulofseoul]

@Julius...
I love your mature comment...so original..NOT!
FYI information Im messaging from a smart phone so couldnt care less if my punctuation
isnt up to your standards. Also Id love to see the world you come from where people over five years old use vet as a verb hahahaa

sigh...I wish these tourist visa holders would stop pretending to know it all :roll:

[Julius]

[The Cosmic Hum]

Many hard working teachers spend many a long lonely night vetting materials trying to build that ever elusive �perfect� lesson plan. Constant pressure from administration keeps teachers under constant stress having to vet even the minutest details in order to please the powers that be. Unfortunately, no matter the blood, sweat, and tears poured into the endeavor, if they haven�t vetted it thoroughly enough, or in just such a way, sure as shit their lesson plan is likely to come under criticism from some asshole administrator or another.

At such a time�this little ditty is ever so appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85gO8XLb4ug

Or just about anytime someone doesn�t agree with you.

[Julius]

[Tower of Babel]

Bore.

[soulofseoul]

[quote="The Cosmic Hum"]Many hard working teachers spend many a long lonely night vetting materials trying to build that ever elusive �perfect� lesson plan. Constant pressure from administration keeps teachers under constant stress having to vet even the minutest details in order to please the powers that be. Unfortunately, no matter the blood, sweat, and tears poured into the endeavor, if they haven�t vetted it thoroughly enough, or in just such a way, sure as shit their lesson plan is likely to come under criticism from some asshole administrator or another.

At such a time�this little ditty is ever so appropriate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85gO8XLb4ug

Or just about anytime someone doesn�t agree with you. :wink:[/quote]

Like I said, I didnt say its not an important word for the so-called-English-teacher here, Im saying its not a word used among friends and family members back home. Agree or not, its the truth!

[alongway]

[radcon]

Soulofseoul: "of course if it came up in an article I would explain it."

Except you didn't know what it meant as a verb until I mentioned it in this thread. So how could you explain it to your students?

[Julius]

[soulofseoul]

[quote="alongway"][quote]Where I'm from "He's a sketch!" = he acts funny/ ridiculously [/quote]
Sketcher = someone who draws sketches.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tool
as further reading for you..

[quote]Im talking about using the word in everyday conversations. How many times do you say vet as a verb to your friends or family? Uhmmm..thats right. NEVER[/quote]

This is some of the most absurd logic I've ever heard.
There are tons of words I'd use in business that I'd never use at home, so they shouldn't be taught? What fun that will be when your students try to have a professional conversation with someone.[/quote]

Yeah they shouldnt be taught to students who can barely manage to order a pizza in the west or ask for directions. I didnt say it wasnt useful for advanced/business students, Im saying there are plenty of other things to teach first and I can guarantee most of the students of teachers on here arent in the "advanced group". Unless your definition of advanced is counting to 100 or something :lol: :lol:

[soulofseoul]

[quote="radcon"][b]Soulofseoul: "of course if it came up in an article I would explain it."[/b]

Except you didn't know what it meant as a verb until I mentioned it in this thread. So how could you explain it to your students?[/quote]

Well, IF I knew the meaning I would. And in this case I didnt so definately they dont need to know it either :lol: