Dr. Evil

Message: 8486 From: Adrian Tennant Received: Mi Apr 27, 2005 6:16 Subject: Re: EfromZ: 2000 words

Dennis wrote: > He 'phoned a friend who is also having private tuition in English and the friend told him: ' It's very simple. There is this list of the 2000 most used words in English. All you have to do is learn and remember the meanings of these words. It's easy, man." > I'm just driving to the local post office tower, the tallest building around here, to jump off. I leave all my TEFL books to dogme list members. It reminds me of a story I was once told by someone (was it you Dennis?) of a West African country where the President passed a decree regarding the teaching of English in schools. The decree stated that on Monday Nouns were to be taught, Tuesday was for Verbs, Wednesday for Adjectives etc and Saturday for Prepositions. I guess this could have been called the 'Sentence a week' method. But then by week 2 it would be 'Beyond the sentence' wouldn't is Scott? Dr E -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]