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Writing a Self-introduction
A few weeks ago, a student in Taiwan emailed me to introduce herself, saying she knew a couple of my students, was impressed with their English, and wanted to study English online with me as those two friends of hers were doing. To get started, I just asked her to...
“A Summer to Remember…”
This morning I was having class with Queenie, a middle school-aged girl in Shenzhen, South China. We were working on some Q&A about a reading passage, and as I usually do, I asked "Do you have any questions?"(Cultural note: many Chinese students, for various...
Ask Scott Dreyer: What is the difference between “shade” and “shadow”?
Q: What is the difference between "shade" and "shadow"? A: That's a great question! Many Chinese speakers struggle with this one, because it can be the same word in Mandarin: 影子 (Ying tze) or 阴影 (Yinying). However, in English, they are very different. SHADE is...
An Inspiration
Sometimes, some things that seem normal and simple to us might be intriguing and profound to other people. There are some reasons to explain this. For example, people have different backgrounds and come from different families. In short, everyone is an individual....
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