Idiomatic English

Course Description Course Format: Input & Interaction, Practicals: Speeking & Writing; interview; debates Course content: Duration: 45 hours Diagnostic test: Cloze passage, Grammar questions, Complete the dialogue, Point out the unidiomatic expressions; rewrite in idiomatic English, Data: first first, also also, today morning, I and my friends, isnt it?, Written English: e.g., *5 grams of potassium permanganate was added to the solution. Spoken English Take 5 grams of potassium permanganate and add it to the solution. Have: have the better of, you had it, Do:

Keep/put give you company, Yes for No! Reported speech: ...told... HEDGING: Well.. ; in a manner of speaking; so to speak; if you ask me; if I remember right; in a sense; If you will excuse me; almost impossible; nearly; maybe; on the downside; on the upside; not that I know of; no, not really;

He asked me, What is your name? She asked me, How old are you? What is your native place? Grammar: What or Which? Singular or plural? Is it -ing or no ing?

Indirect questions: You are Mr.... You come from... The only son? Brothers and sisters? Today is my birth day! Which one?

Exaggeration/overstatement: nobody can; Exit test

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List of hedging expressions; list of glaring unidiomatic expressions; Acceptability/Grammaticality Idiom knocks off the rough edges of grammar. *Sugar/Gas got over. *Ill prepare tea for you. *Hundred=> a hundred RKNs English Teacher! *Yesterday, you know, I went to one shop. *On or before=> by

Fillers: well, you know, etc. Fluorescent light/tube light