Tuesday, March 21, 2006

The Importance Of Pronunciation

When teaching ESL, it is very, very wise to stress to your students that the correct pronunciation of the word fork is extremely important. Inadvertently dropping the f-bomb is just no good.

2 comments:

SP said...

Ooohhhhh...very, VERY important. I must remember that next year. I'm sure that middle school students would never mean to do that on purpose! ;)

Anonymous said...

Oh, yeah; ESL stories ... and it works in other languages, too. Ask your pastor about the day he ordered "mixed sh...."; ... and of course, the first thing that Japanese stewardesses ask their passengers to do? "Radies and gentrman? Prease sh** down."