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AmoroAgain
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How not to get an English teaching job
So, a member of a club I joined here in Sweden sent out a search for an English teacher. Someone replied, to the WHOLE group, and wrote:
I can teach English.
I can speak basic to immediate Svenska. I am more than willing to help out. I have taught english to spanish speakers for meany years, and I think I would be good for this as well.
Oh. my. god. I can't stop laughing.
I can teach English.
I can speak basic to immediate Svenska. I am more than willing to help out. I have taught english to spanish speakers for meany years, and I think I would be good for this as well.
Oh. my. god. I can't stop laughing.
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Re: How not to get an English teaching job
Whatever you hatters be hattin. -Tay Prince
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Plus, she must have been absent the day they taught capitals for the names of languages and that sentences should not end in prepositions.
How embarrassing for her to send that to so many people.
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My favorite of the bunch was when this guy used a lower case "L" instead of a capital "I" throughout the whole statement. Oh yeah, he had mastered the English language.
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I also sent out a request for English classes for DH (because I am the worst teacher ever) to a group of English-speaking expats a while ago and got a response with errors like that. Obviously, I did not take the woman up on her offer to teach him something vaguely resembling the English language.
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[QUOTE]Is it wrong that I have lived overseas for so much of my life that this doesn't surprise me? I know she is suggesting she should teach English, but somehow, still doesn't surprise me... English is my father's fourth language...some of the mistakes he makes make me laugh, others cringe. And he has a Ph.D in Medicine written in English! But to be fair, he is 71 this year, I think he is slowly forgetting some of the syntax he used to have...he sounds like a Eastern European yoda sometimes.
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I think that's totally forgiveable 55, but this girl is American, (from Chapel Hill, according to her bio) and simple typo's such as she exhibited are just not acceptable, I think, for a native speaker offering to teach.
[QUOTE]... and that sentences should not end in prepositions.
Posted by Mrs.B6302007[/QUOTE]<div>
</div><div>This rule isn't followed as closely or strictly as it was decades ago, even in relatively formal settings. Often it just results in awkward-sounding sentences because people aren't used to hearing them structured around this rule anymore. That's just my understanding of the situation, though.
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[QUOTE]I'm not tellin' her!
Posted by AmoroAgain[/QUOTE]
no..not you...like a friend or a boss or something....
[QUOTE]In Response to Re: How not to get an English teaching job : I think that's totally forgiveable 55, but this girl is American, (from Chapel Hill, according to her bio) and simple typo's such as she exhibited are just not acceptable, I think, for a native speaker offering to teach.
Posted by AmoroAgain[/QUOTE]
<div>SHE'S AMERICAN? Sorry for the caps, but really? Okay, that is ridiculous. And I agree with the PP who said that there have been posts on here that have been almost as bad. It is unfortunately true. Someone was called out on FFF a little while ago for it and I read one of her posts elsewhere and nearly choked...</div>
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[QUOTE]In Response to Re: How not to get an English teaching job : I think that's totally forgiveable 55, but this girl is American, (from Chapel Hill, according to her bio) and simple typo's such as she exhibited are just not acceptable, I think, for a native speaker offering to teach.
Posted by AmoroAgain[/QUOTE]
<div>What?! I was going to excuse her, thinking she was foreign. (Still a funny story, and I still wouldn't hire her, but more forgivable.) That would explain why she didn't capitalize English and Spanish - I know they're not capitalized in the romance languages, for example.</div>
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