I’m sitting here, drinking a cup of coffee and eating a chocolate biscuit and thoughts pop into my head: As a kid, I adored chocolate biscuits. I reckon I had eaten hundreds of biscuits by the age of 5. An an adult, I have drunk more than my fair share of cups of coffee….
Tag: grammar
The Curse of Knowledge
Do you ever despair of your learners and wonder why they can’t understand your explanations of grammatical structures? You can’t understand it. You studied the grammar diligently until you knew everything about the structure you were going to teach. And yet, when you shared your knowledge with your learners, they looked at you in that…
Bad English
I’ve recently participated in an online discussion about “corruptions in the English language”. Here are a few of the “corruptions” which raise the ire of some of the contributors and some from discussions I’ve had with teachers over the years: “innit” “should of” instead of “should have” the insertion of “like” into every utterance the…