Today in one of my younger classes, the kids were learning about fun things like celebrations (it being the New Year over here and all), and using action verbs instead of things like "Yes, I am" or "Yes, I do." The exercise had questions such as, "Do you get presents for your birthday?" The point was to get them to say, "Yes, I get presents" instead of "Yes, I do." They caught on fairly quickly about having to use the action verb, but they didn't always understand that the end of the sentence is also necessary.
Hence the problem we reached with the question, "Do you blow out candles on your cake?"
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Joanna-Teacher: "That's mostly correct, just write 'out candles' at the end. Please. No, I can't explain why."
Often to my sincere distress, the curriculum includes Engrish as well. Most of the textbooks are pirated copies, so they're all in black and white. In one of the lessons there was a picture of a dog next to a blackboard, and on the blackboard was written, "Bud is in the class." Alas, the 'cl' had not survived the harrowing journey from the original, through the Xerox machine, and onto the copies.
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Pirated textbooks and action verbs, Huh? It sounds like you're having lots of fun over there Jo!
Good Luck, Luv Uncle Chris
have you been to engrish.com
it's is soo freakin' funny! i think you will relate.
and the letter "F" and "L" and "V" are super hard for koreans. #1- F and V doesn't exist in the language... and the L's well, are the R's and bice bersa. oh, and "th" doesn't either.
"The vase is lovely."
duh base is rubree.
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