Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


Keep digging, you'll soon reach the earth's core.


Are you 12 years old?

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]


Courts can, and if someone is harmed, they have a right to compensation.


Most countries manage fine without coal fired power stations or domestic use of coal.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


Because you made a mistake whereas the course materials didn't.


Sadly that doesn't surprise me.

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]


We are the best party for government and have to balance southern NIMBYism with development and jobsfor the rest of us. The Labour Party are not purists and right now have to rebuild the country after 14 years of misrule.

Any industrial development will nevertheless have to be as clean as possible.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


Are, not is.

Who are the publishers?


Not at the level that course book prepares for. Subsequent ones may introduce the word dish (it comes in at mid A2) however if they're doing real U.K. exams, there wouldn't really be the opportunity for that, nor would it have a material effect on marks for writing or speaking at a low level.

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]

Unfortunately piping hydrocarbons across the sea is very short term since the Norwegian sectors are declining slowly, and most goes contractually elsewhere.

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]


Providing those who use it pay compensation for anyone in neighbouring countries affected by pollution from it.

That and a price, at market rates, for offsetting the emissions.

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]

We are. The plans were decades after that.

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

How sweet.

Drink more, we like watching it

News / CO2 emissions in Poland. Should Poland go nuclear or stick with clean coal technologies? [93]

It's been planned for a long however I gather it was not in the public domain for a time due to potential controversy.

Now of course, the importance of moving away from fossil fuels and having nothing to do with r*SSia have changed everything.

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

Because if you keep digging yourself into a hole at the rate you are now, you'll fùcking well end up there in no time.

UK, Ireland / Brexit complications for UK nationals [49]

Your weird trolling doesn't really work.

One occupational hazard of being a primary school teacher is that you can end up with the mentality of a ten year old.

UK, Ireland / Brexit complications for UK nationals [49]

It's not 'truth' though.

It's just a puerile and drunken attention-seeker trolling for a reaction.

Fortunately us Brits aren't insecure about nationality like so many Poles

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

So where are the Antipodes of Poland?

UK, Ireland / Brexit complications for UK nationals [49]

Where did you get that nonsense in Italics from?

And why drag up old threads about the U.K. that you don't understand? Do you enjoy making a tit of yourself?

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


So do we.


An oral fixation according to Freud.


It's possibly Jewish, possibly from Lancashire. Even if it was Martian, that doesn't make it less British.

Anyway, Polish cuisine doesn't differ much from r*SSian, Belarus, Ukrainian and has a lot in common with German.


"Why, why, why"

Some teachers refuse to have Germans in a class.

Your description of context based language is probably the best I've heard. Did you study Applied Linguistics?

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trumpetcunt?

No, he isn't.

Members of that religion tend not to steal, rape women or hurt the vulnerable.

On judgement day, he'd better be wearing asbestos shoes.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


And a third of course, as in mealy meal, plus its idiomatic use as in make a meal of.

Our ancestors invented all these to confuse foreigners


This is key to it. One reason why teaching some IT people, doctors and accountants plus Germans (shudder) is a drag.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


When a learner says to you that they ate out their mother on Saturday you know why.


Generally they use the highest frequency meaning for of course sound reasons.

I do find that if Poles get ardent ( it a rare thing) you can bamboozle them with second and third meanings.

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

You were still wrong though.

Here's a riddle:

Where are the Antipodes of Poland?

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Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]


I should read Lem.

Science fiction isn't my thing, though there are certainly some good speculative fiction books.


Earbuds do that. Replace reflection and contemplation with whatever Spotify's algorithm thinks you'll like.

That and MAGA hats, however fortunately they're over there not over here so we don't need to worry about the fine mess they've gotten themselves into.

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]

Didn't Żeromski write a book or short story called that? I haven't read that one, only the usual.

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There are some, especially at the top end of the market. Further down, there are some horror shows.


I agree, however in exam classes where you're essentially teaching to the test, good ones are invaluable. The exam-focussed ones are a world apart from some of the dreck from publishers with big marketing budgets.


With that one (some B2s do ask) I say it's about the historical connection between will (będzie) and will (woła). And also say very often pretty well exactly what you say. Also that there are emphatic forms, hedging and the ultra polite which leads to forms being used by natives that even a highly proficient non-native would avoid but shouldn't stress over if they hear it.

Language / Mixed English Grammar Thread [233]


The teacher should of course. That and have an eye on exam expectations and partial outcomes. Non-native teachers have a real struggle with that concept.

You're correct that traditional ones are model sentences (and newer ones should be) however some of the newer ones are more thematic (the topics covered in satiate exams) at the cost of accuracy and ease of use.

For children's materials, even the CEFR lexis gets stripped down a bit. Generally for good reason.


Welcome to my world, Maf (and of course probably yours too; I think you work with language).

Learners and non-native teachers often get flummoxed by word or grammar frequency. They get appalled when they reach the level that 'be used to' and 'get used to' come in. Plus there's the prescriptive/descriptive approach to grammar.

If you want to see looks of horror, just tell them that the Cobuild people in Warwick analysed an evening of U.K. terrestrial TV and identified 84 conditional forms...

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I wonder if he'll admit to and make penance for his many sins.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]

Especially a teacher of English who is clearly somewhat befuddled about how the word meal can be used in the language they're teaching.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]


Notorious.


I suppose they would be if they have a teacher who doesn't know their arse from their elbow.

Remember, coursebooks are a tool, not a bible.


Some certainly do. I had pancakes and black coffee today.

Perhaps the teachers book should take into account that the course book might be used by less proficient teachers.

Food / Poles have a more loving attitude to food than here in the UK [169]

Oh dear, Paw, keep digging. Soon you'll be having a smoko with bogans, bludgers, possums and Emma Chisit under a billabong tree.

If only you'd asked a professional in didactic materials for language learning (clue: there's one replying to your previous post right now).why a particular lexeme has been selected for use in a given course book rather than making a sort of riddle with no answer and an odd question.

Look a couple of posts back, then google high and low frequency vocab and reflect on how that is applied in creating materials for different ages and levels.

That or find a young child whose first language is English that talks about dishes (as in meals rather than pots and pans).