We should just teach conversation and writing and the culture, end of story.
Also, how does one teach writing without teaching grammar?
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Teacher: Ok class, write about what you did at the weekend.
Class begins writing, "teacher" begins monitoring
Teacher: Very good, Timmy. However we don't say "Yesterday I go to the beach and play with my friends." We say "Yesterday I went to the beach and played with my friends."
Timmy: Oh, ok. Why?
Teacher: Because when we talk about yesterday it's in the past so that means the verbs in the sentence must change to be in the past.
Timmy: Oh, ok. Teacher?
Teacher: Yes, Timmy?
Timmy: What's a verb?
Teacher: It's a doing word. Go and Play are verbs.
Timmy: And why does go become went but play become played? And what about other verbs?
Teacher: Ah, Timmy. That's grammar. You don't need to know about that. Just get on with your writing.
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- Re: Re EF bashing instead of women bashing! -- EX_EFDL Teacher / Londongirl. -- 2014-09-10
- Re: Re EF bashing instead of women bashing! -- fifi -- 2014-09-10
- Re: Re EF bashing instead of women bashing! -- fifi -- 2014-09-10
- Re: Re EF bashing instead of women bashing! -- EX_EFDL Teacher / Londongirl. -- 2014-09-10
- Re: Re EF bashing instead of women bashing! -- EX_EFDL Teacher / Londongirl. -- 2014-09-09
- Re: Re EF bashing instead of women bashing! -- Concerned Teacher -- 2014-09-10
- Re: Re EF bashing instead of women bashing! -- EX_EFDL Teacher / Londongirl. -- 2014-09-09
- Re: Re EF bashing instead of women bashing! -- Concerned Teacher -- 2014-09-09