We learned about greetings. How to introduce yourself. There are many ways to introduce yourself and to make the conversation less formal, like:
Do you mind if I call you Johny?
The teacher also told us about question tags like:
You are foreign, aren't you?
She speaks english, doesn't she?
They don't go to the movies, do they?
If we make an affirmative sentence, the question tag should be a negative one, and vice-versa.
At the end of the class, we learned about small talks. Small talk is a little conversation that you do when you are on an elevator, or when you are waiting for a medical consultation and you talk to the people close to you:
What a wonderful day, isn't it?.
We must pay atention to the first person like the wonderful example teacher gave us if you're drunk and want to make clear you live where you are:
I live here, aren't I?
She told us there are three ways to say that. A high formal way: "am I not?"; that sounds pretty cheesy ;) and a slang way: "ain't I?". But the standard way that it's more used is "aren't I?".
FYI: ;) I've searched about what means "Sawatdee-Khrab" and "Sawatdee-Kaa". Both are thai expressions that mean "Hello". The first one is said by men and the last one is said by women. Here is where I found it: http://www.ehow.com/way_6177292_thai-language.html
This blog intends to aid the english students with a summary of each class and some tips given by the teacher. I hope you help me to make the blog even better and as a result to improve our english. If you find any error (and probably you'll do), please tell me.
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