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(Brian家)
Brian: Marianne, several guests are coming tonight. Can you tell them to put off their shoes?
Marianne: Sorry?
Brian: Tell the guests to wear slippers. I don’t want a dirty house!
Marianne: OK……Sir, fire! I saw some smoke from Mrs. C...
Teaching points: Speaking strategy / fluency
Common misuse of ‘actually’, ‘and then’ and ‘it seems’ to create ‘cohesion’, probably due to Cantonese inference.
Published 06/27/09
Teaching points: Speaking strategy / fluency
Common misuse of ‘actually’, ‘and then’ and ‘it seems’ to create ‘cohesion’, probably due to Cantonese inference.
Published 06/27/09
(光碟店內)
遊客: Wow, you have stocked so many DVDs. Could you please show me which one is good?
店員: No pobem (problem)! Some of them cost only chenty (twenty) dollars each.
店員: … This one … Ocean’s Chelve (twelve)… should be good.
遊客: Ocean’s Ch
Published 06/20/09