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Maybe to add to the others
Playing football.
Am going for a game of soccer.
I am playing a pick up/ knock about game. (depends if the phrase has been retained by the learner).
I play football in the afternoon.
Why is frequency of usage important to you?
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| #3 (permalink) Tue Sep 16, 2008 10:14 am What are you doing tomorrow? |
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| Quote: | | Am going for a game of soccer. |
Is that regional?
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Why is frequency of usage important to you? |
Where did I speak of that? |
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| #4 (permalink) Tue Sep 16, 2008 19:16 pm What are you doing tomorrow? |
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Hi Molly
Regional or even versions may occur spontaneously in a classroom situation, do you not agree.
How can we control the variations that students come up with?
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| #5 (permalink) Tue Sep 16, 2008 22:50 pm What are you doing tomorrow? |
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| Quote: | | Regional or even versions may occur spontaneously in a classroom situation, do you not agree. |
They may indeed.
| Quote: | | How can we control the variations that students come up with? |
To which extent would you like to control them? |
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| #6 (permalink) Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:45 am What are you doing tomorrow? |
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Hi Molly
I am not sure I would like to control them beyond useful and appropriate communication, how about you?
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| #7 (permalink) Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:57 am What are you doing tomorrow? |
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| stew.t. wrote: | Hi Molly
I am not sure I would like to control them beyond useful and appropriate communication, how about you? |
Nope, that seems a good limit, but who decides what is "useful and appropriate communication"? |
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| #8 (permalink) Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:19 am What are you doing tomorrow? |
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hi
Useful and appropriate communication depends on context, and intention.
You wouldn´t swear at a strict boss, and you surely wouldn´t be all posh on a construction site now would you?
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| #9 (permalink) Wed Sep 17, 2008 11:22 am What are you doing tomorrow? |
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| stew.t. wrote: | hi
Useful and appropriate communication depends on context, and intention.
You wouldn´t swear at a strict boss, and you surely wouldn´t be all posh on a construction site now would you? |
Indeed not, but most language teaching seems to focus on speaking with the boss and not with the lads on a construction site, which is an unfortunate state of affairs.
As an example, would you advise using "whom" on a construction site? 
How difficult is it to decide on which language items should go into each syllabus? Do you believe that a syllabus should include only maximally useful items? |
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