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Post by Otaku on Jun 5, 2008 21:12:27 GMT 8
Anybody else having infinitive (to + verb) problems at school?
I prepped what I thought was a stellar activity to practice this grammar point for the second graders, only to go into class for the JTE to tell me the students hadn't learned the type of infinitives I used to create my activity. Let's get past the point that the 'infinitive grammar' I used was found on the next page!
In my opionion, 'English grammar' rules trump 'Japanese English grammar' rules when they come into conflict, especially there is a native English teacher in the classroom.
Anyone else care to ring in?
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yopparaisaru
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Post by yopparaisaru on Jun 6, 2008 7:41:30 GMT 8
Since I've replied to just about every other thread on the forum right now, I'll join your crusade with this one too otaku. I've had that same problem with every lesson in the book. I prepare a activity that i think will be awesome, only to have the JTE look at it 3 minutes before class and tell me that its bad change it, because the sentence structure doesn't match exactly whats on the page they're doing. No matter that my grammar is on the next page and not even the bolded grammar point, just in the little blurb about whatever the impossibly good at english class those new horizon jhs kids are doing. My school hasn't hit the infinitives yet, but we'll prolly make it there by next week.
But after teaching here for a year its pretty much what I've come to expect. As I recently learned from my last activity I made where one of the questions on the worksheet was how long have you studied english. The best part was when my JTE found out he "officialy studied" english longer than me, he started i guess joking to everyone in the class that he knew more english than i did. Aside from being a native speaker and all that, I'm talking about formal in school study. me 12, him 16. go figure. BUt then I'm not surprised like i said above everytime i try to interject with a more correct version of how to say a sentence i'm shot down because my grammar isn't their grammar. I sometimes wonder why I go to class in the first place.
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