Cultural Shock

Cultural Shock

Have you ever missed to communicate what you were trying to say? A group for anyone who’d like to share experiences meeting different cultures!

¿Alguna vez te equivocaste en decir lo que querías? Un grupo para quienes quieran compartir sus experiencias conociendo nuevas culturas!


Founder: Gianfranco Vela Gianfranco



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Oliver Tamis

I guess culture shock is part of our everyday lives… glad to be part of this group:)

Tom Lorimer

I have lived in the Philippines for 6 months now, and I constantly get culture shock every day still now lol!

Ian McKenzie

Hi all
I am pleased to be a member of “Cultural Shock”.
Cheers
Ian

Enrique Kates

Hi Everybody:

My english and spanish 1:m groups will begin next week. Check them here. http://edufire.com/classes

I will also hold a free class on the weekend!

Jamila  A.

YES! I have definitely experienced making a mistake and saying the wrong thing. BUT, those have been some of the funniest memories. Maybe, I’ll share one of those stories when other people in the group are online. Cheers…And I’m glad this group was created!

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Corina Blum

Just been reading through this whole thread and found it really interesting, especially Alaia’s point about the shifting stress depending on the part of speech. When teaching pronunciation I think it’s useful to make students aware of these patterns as they can be generalised. In most two syllable noun/verbs pairs the stress shifts from the first syllable in a noun to the second syllable in a verb e.g.

a record to record
an import to import
refuse to refuse

If you come across it a great book on teaching pronuncation is Sound Foundations: Learning and Teaching Pronunciation by Adrian Underhill

Corina Blum

Fikry
Sorry if my reply sounded a little strong. However, I think grammar rules can be misleading and do not always relate to what people actually say. This is one of these cases. In the Uk it is normal nowadays to use, ‘they’ to refer to a singular person when the gender of the person is not specified, as in the example above. In speech it is used all the time and sounds completely normal.

As you said, ‘one of….’ and ‘one’ and ‘ones’ are still used as pronouns. this is completely normal and is different to the usage described above.

Corina Blum

I’m sorry to disagree but 1b is not correct. I would never ever use this. I’ve never heard anyone in the UK use it and would correct any of my students who said it.

The use of ‘one’ in the UK is seen as rather archaic and is only used by a very small number of people nowadays. Usually older upper class people. Other people only use it for comedy value and do not use it seriously.

In conversation and informal writing ‘they’ is now used in place of ‘one’. I’d be interested to know if this is the same in the US.

Corina Blum

In modern English we use ‘they’ to refer to a person whose gender hasn’t been specified. As the question is very general and it isn’t clear whether the friend is male or female we would actually say:

One of my friends didn’t come to the party, did they?

If you say, ‘did he?’ the speakers are talking about a male person only.

Samar H

in my country we never celebrate halloween but i’d love to celebrated with you guys am sure it’s gonna be awesome party

Samar H

u need to practice on ur accent alot

Yu Ba

Hi, is your english British accented? or……..

Corina Blum

Hi

Sandra – I’ll be happy to join the general information class to help give advice about the exams. But, I’m going on holiday for about 2 weeks from 11 October and am really busy getting ready for it at the moment so don’t have much time until after I get back on 25th.

Corina Blum

Geology – yet another science!

Corina Blum

Hi,

I think it’s a great idea too. I enjoy teaching exam classes and I’ve done lots of classroom teaching for PET, FCE and CAE but haven’t taught them online yet.

Corina

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