Class
Speaking - the advantage of non native speakers in an international English environment:
- you can buy time
- your thinking is less emotional
- deliberate, cautious responses
- unreadable - people underestimate you
Reading - approaching a difficult text
Of Two Minds
Homework
Finish reading the article. What is your view? Do you agree?
Vocabulary
to bulldoze (over someone) = to get what you want in an unpleasantly forceful way
stumbling block = obstacle/problem that prevents you from doing something
disingenuous = slightly dishonest or insincere
cluelessness = stupidity
boon (noun) = benefit
default - e.g. default setting/option
excruciating = extremely painful
to not get a word in (edgeways)
to call up = remember
sheer (adjective) = complete
verbiage
Corrections
1:30 C1/C2
Class
- Modals - error correction
- Modals in legal contexts - may (for permission), shall (for promises, obligation and signalling future events)
- Memorandum of association - synonyms.
Homework
Finish of your analysis of the use of may and shall in the memorandum of association.
Going Further
Reading: Of Two Minds
https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21696489-advantages-working-your-own-language-are-obvious-those-working-foreign
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