Pragmatics: Shared Understanding Practice

Watch the following video.

After watching it, take a picture of a notice board or an image that implies "shared understanding". Upload your picture on the blog.

The picture below was sent by Gerardo Déniz:

 Here's a picture sent by Eli

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Occupational dialect activity

Task:

1.Select an individual speaker and monitor his or her speech.

•Data required:  age, gender, profession, work experience (<5 years’ experience, <10 years’ experience, >10 years experience)

2. Ask them to talk to you about their job/profession for 2-3 minutes and record them.

3. Draw a list of words common to that kind of occupational dialect.

4. Upload your audio and doc files to the blog

5. Due: 25th February 2012

English as a foreign language

Watch this video...

Though the video is a comic situation, it envinces that many times non-native speakers of English have a hard time trying to talk to natives speakers and the other way round. Have you had any experience?

why English is hard to learn?

After reading this site, give your own reasons why you find it easy/hard to learn English.

Cartoon ESL

Just for fun :)