English Teaching Resources: More Grammar Games

English Teaching Resources: More Grammar Games

Most learners somehow accept that the sounds of a foreign language are going to be different from those of their mother tongue. What is much more difficult to accept is that the grammar of the new language is also spectacularly different from the way the mother tongue works. For example, a speaker of a Latin-based language has 23 years, (elle a 23 ans), she has cold, she has hunger etc. At a subconscious, semiconscious and conscious level it is very hard to want to switch to: I am twenty three, I am cold, I am hungry. If it is avere (to have) in Italian, why should it suddenly be essere (to be) in English? To the Latin speaker there is something outlandish about the verb to be in these contexts.

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1995-02-07