Hi everyone, Yesterday, a student of mine asked me the difference between persuade into and persuade to ( for instance; She persuaded her mother to lend her...
To my NNS ear, it sounds as if when using the gerund, i.e., persuade into, gives the idea of convincing someone against their will or to the contrary of their...
Personally I would use talk with into (followed by -ing) and persuade with to ... examples: See if you can talk your father into coming with us or See if you...
"What's the difference between..." is such a typical question among language learners trying to work out the "logic" of a language, isn't it? Ana, I'd say you...
Hi all, Very interesting Rob. I teach at the university and very often my students ask me questions similar to that of Ana's. I think I will do what you...
Ana, and everyone, I feel I should add something to my last post concerning what the student is after with his or her question. The obvious response would be...
Going on from Rob has written, it frequently occurs to me that we teachers/trainers complicate matters tremendously. To adapt Virginia Woolfe's phrase, we are...
Ana, I don't know if I can help, but I can certainly respond. 1. Learners in most cultures will think in terms of "right" and "wrong". Long-term you can wean...
"Our explanations, frequently, are for the colleague fly on the wall and over careful and academic for our learners." Right on, Dennis ! As Rob pointed out,...
Celso, It sounds to me as if you are pretty right on yourself! Let me quote from a message I happened to write for another list earlier today (Slightly edited...
Hi, This reminded me of my ITTT TEFL course. I finished it in Sept. but the marker is holding it back (it's all marked but not passed on), based on a...
[Shared with CETEFL, YL and dogme] As I've mentioned many times, I learned some Russian in the army during National Service in 1953 - 1955. At the end of a...
Dennis, Reading your post brought out my own dormant vocabulary. One of my favorite words, Morozhenoi (ice cream), suddenly popped up. Then there was Khak...
Rob, And your words have played a reminding role and I've taken down Hoey from my bookshelves! There was a period when I seemed always to be buying books ...
Comments from Saint Petersburg... Your memory serves you well Dennis, although I think you might be confusing maslo (butter) with myaso (meat). Are you saying...
John, I was in Russia for a week about three years ago, but I was attending an international conference and everyone spoke English. I can't recall ever using...
hello everybody, here's a question my student asked me yesterday? he wanted to know whether it was correct to say "how much are a hamburger, a pizza and a...
Another ubiquitous question the the language learning classroom (assuming learners are in a position to ask questions)... I like to help students understand...
If I understand this rightly, I think it's because in the mind of the speaker, the hamburger, pizza and coke together make up a single order - and will amount...
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Luke, List, It's akin to using 'less' or 'fewer'. In the minds of many, '10 items or less' works just fine because it's a bunch of stuff. Gramatically correct...
I would say 'is' is correct because the questioner wants to know the total, not the individual prices. Rita Baker ... Rita Baker BA PGCE (TEFL) FRSA Training...
Hi everyone, Last Saturday, a student of mine asked me the difference between persuade into and persuade to ( for instance; She persuaded her mother to lend...
Dear Ana, I'm finding this thread interesting on two accounts. First of all, one of my pet annoyances is that, in the British media at least, very few people...
Hi Rob, Sorry,it took too long to reply your messages but I've just found out that all my dogme messages were sent to the spam folder. Thanks for the tips....
Celso, Last Saturday, I told my sts that sometimes we have to trust our instincts and take risks in learning, but they laughed at me and claimed they don't...
Hi everyone: Ana, I wonder if learners in Dogme classes do cloze tests (the horror, the horror... ,-) ? How do you (aaaaaarghhhhh !!!!!) "train" people to do...
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