"'Aksprosimately seex days, Meester Crème...ees for in-ars training. De bonk send eets members to the bitch for some good lessons.' Well, lucky members, thought I. Now that's what I call a bank that cares." Dr Graeme Porte is invited to take his English teaching skills to the bank's symposium at the seaside.
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"I was now to be faced not just by one straining English pronunciation, but two hundred and thirty-seven, in assorted angel and shepherd attire, with abilities ranging from upper-intermediate, through beginner, and down to a one-off viewing in a friend's house last June of a pirate Teletubbies video." Graeme helps out with the local school Nativity play - in English...
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"I placed my finger on the text and slowly read the sentence aloud: 'Colon cancer: often no symptoms in the early stages.' Manolo grasped my shaking finger and turned his head slowly towards me, eyes wide open in disbelief: 'Mah gorsh, Meester Grimy. Ees iksactly what joo have got.'" Graeme has some toilet troubles to cope with...
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"The message left on my answerphone had intrigued me: two policewomen whose main interest in foreign language learning was to sing karaoke. How do you prepare a lesson with these two? No use planning a quick dash through the Present Perfect. If anything, it was going to have to be Sing Something Present Simple." Graeme coaches El Duo Dinámico...
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Lesson Ten: May and Daisy, Sam and Ella
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