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mrsquirrel
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 Posted: Wed Apr 11, 2007 11:40 pm Post subject: The Middle School teaching question thread. |
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Cathy: There are so many stories about him. Well, he had a giant blue ox and a purple cow.
Min-su: So, he was a friend of animals?
Cathy: Well kind of. He liked animals and animals helped him |
Was he a friend of THE animals or animals in general?
If it was changed to plants for example would he be a friend of plants or THE plants?
Does this sound right or is it 4:30 and I should be on my way home instead rather than worrying about things like this. |
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bosintang
Joined: 01 Dec 2003
Location: In the pot with the rest of the mutts
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 5:37 pm Post subject: Re: The Middle School teaching question thread. |
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Cathy: There are so many stories about him. Well, he had a giant blue ox and a purple cow.
Min-su: So, he was a friend of animals?
Cathy: Well kind of. He liked animals and animals helped him |
Was he a friend of THE animals or animals in general?
If it was changed to plants for example would he be a friend of plants or THE plants?
Does this sound right or is it 4:30 and I should be on my way home instead rather than worrying about things like this. |
I'd say that you'll drive your students and your students completely batty if you worry about these kind of things. There are just so many bigger battles to fight (like having to teach a dialogue like that in any kind of communicative way!). |
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Kimchieluver
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 8:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Just replace "animals" with "hookers" and that should solve the problem. |
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oxfordstu
Joined: 28 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:08 pm Post subject: |
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| quirrel --- change the conversation entirely. Most of the dialogues in the book are bloody useless and provide little context and no practical usage. Just make up your own. That's what I'm doing. |
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mrsquirrel
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 10:32 pm Post subject: |
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Problems is Oxford is that the school is really worried about the listening tests that they have to sit and the end of unit tests. I've got a fair bit of freedom but when practicing the listening exercises I don't have the time or the equipment to rerecord new conversations for them. Or the patience to have to pin down one of my busy co-teachers to record the other part with me.
I can change my voice only so much to be two different people in the conversations.
Reading wise and output wise I create my own I don't use the conversations for anything other than listening. Which is about all the CD-Rom and book is good for. |
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bosintang
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| Posted: Thu Apr 12, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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Problems is Oxford is that the school is really worried about the listening tests that they have to sit and the end of unit tests. I've got a fair bit of freedom but when practicing the listening exercises I don't have the time or the equipment to rerecord new conversations for them. Or the patience to have to pin down one of my busy co-teachers to record the other part with me.
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Whenever I have crappy dialogues, I just quickly go through them. I do them, get them over with, and don't drab on them. I only start mangling with them if they are completely misleading or incorrect -- very rarely.
Students aren't going to remember that kind of stuff anyways. |
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oxfordstu
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| Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 1:08 am Post subject: |
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| Ah so it's listening. Yeah, not much you can do. Just go through them quickly when they're complete crap. I love my job, but the material that I'm given to teach in the textbook has got to be the worst I've ever seen. |
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