(Part Two of the “English On the Weird Side of the Bed”)
Bring Out the Colour of Blue
And I don’t wanna seem unhumble but it feels natural to me to bring out the colour of blue, to extract these personal quirks out of unsuspecting folks because I draw it out of myself pretty much on every day basis by writing songs, composing stories, creating music and generally being ‘on the weird side of the bed’, if you know what I mean.
Your Personality is Like a Shadow - Always With You
Well, the question is how do we extract this English bubble gum (cockney slang for chum) out of your majesty? - if you please, during the classes (as a matter of fact you don’t need to extract anything out of anyone - your personality is like a shadow, remember? - always with you grudgingly, loyally dragging behind; but for the purpose of this discussion, to illustrate my point I’m using this term), so that we can channel the English language through it.
A Way of Learning That Speaks to You
And the answer is simple - I show you a few techniques - different ways of studying so that you can pick the one that catches your eye, speaks to you and you think works for you best. Then I ask you a question, perhaps an off-beat one that I’m curious to know about—your la-di-da—and while answering we are gonna be forming a discussion, raking through the topics that you are particularly partial to.
During the discussion I’m taking some notes on my notepad; then, at the end of the session, I’m showing you correct versions of the phrases you’ve used.
That School Teacher Who Bit Our Heads Off
I’ve noticed that many people struggle with the language because they are afraid of making mistakes—no wonder—there had always been that school teacher who bit our heads off at the mere sight of incorrection; I think we should make mistakes though—the more the merrier—that’s how we learn, you see. We should fail, yes, and then we can learn from our slips of the tongue, so, the more of these little peccadilloes we create the better we become in the long term as long as we learn from these ickle imperfections.
You Just Can’t Stop The Music
All in all, my job as a tutor is to tickle the muscle of your curiosity a little bit so that everything that’s on your mind comes out in a charming little form of a new language. So you just can’t stop the music, can’t halt your English ‘blah, blah, blah’, it’s pouring cats and dogs out of you and I’m catching phrases that you are throwing at me, that are but slightly or fatly incorrect and I’m showing you the correct versions at the end of the conversation and explaining the mechanics of the grammar and bringing the varieties of the vocabulary that your particular style is asking for to the table.
English Via Storytelling 2023 Doggedly Extracted From The Adventurous Midst Of Turquoise Imagination Via Sergey Denisov
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