I've come to realize 2 things:
1.- I hate homework, especially when I don't understand what that homework is about.
2.- When I'm worried about my job, I can't do my homework properly. Viceversa.
Now, assuming I got through point 2, the part where I don't understand the homework makes it all the more frustrating and angeriffic. And I never get through point 1 without help, so that's a problem.
I wish the work in class were, in general, more understandable. Once again, one can't assume the students know. One makes sure they know, and then one works on that knowledge one gave them (Oh, Asimov, I love Andrew's way of speaking).
That's about it with this weeks rant.
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Oh, you lazy bums, check out videos from Stephen Fry. They'll be illuminating in the matter of syntax and grammar. And above all, in the matter of general english lingo.
viernes, 23 de septiembre de 2011
domingo, 18 de septiembre de 2011
First classes.
First of all, I really dislike the "You guys should know this all" because, well, it's a class where people are supposed to learn, not come with full knowledge. The teacher really doesn't explain a thing.
As for the schoolmates, ugh, I don't know where to start. I shall rant to a minimum and leave it at: They really have to start learning english, and how to read it. We can't spend the whole class waiting for some guy to learn how to pronounce "Syntactical" while he's in the middle of a 3 sentence paragraph.
Some of them are ok, but most of them make me want to shoot myself repeatedly in the knee, just so I can keep myself from jumping at them and beating them over and over on the head with a dictionary and a DVD containing an interview with Stephen Fry.
Now, there comes another factor: I have what one could call "practical" English, meaning I don't really know most of the technical terms for some of the things I use, say, etc. That said, it's frustrating to see the teacher pointing "and what is this? This "NP" that we use befor the "V" and coupled with the "D"..." because, as I said, this class is about learning and the teacher assumes we know all this shit backwards and forwards.
Meh, let's see if it improves, even a little bit.
As for the schoolmates, ugh, I don't know where to start. I shall rant to a minimum and leave it at: They really have to start learning english, and how to read it. We can't spend the whole class waiting for some guy to learn how to pronounce "Syntactical" while he's in the middle of a 3 sentence paragraph.
Some of them are ok, but most of them make me want to shoot myself repeatedly in the knee, just so I can keep myself from jumping at them and beating them over and over on the head with a dictionary and a DVD containing an interview with Stephen Fry.
Now, there comes another factor: I have what one could call "practical" English, meaning I don't really know most of the technical terms for some of the things I use, say, etc. That said, it's frustrating to see the teacher pointing "and what is this? This "NP" that we use befor the "V" and coupled with the "D"..." because, as I said, this class is about learning and the teacher assumes we know all this shit backwards and forwards.
Meh, let's see if it improves, even a little bit.
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