When you're a teacher, and in particular English teacher, it may be useful not immediately disclose its business to new knowledge. Whether it's friends of friends met at a party, your fellow diners at a restaurant or too perfumed lady sitting next to you in the TGV, it is more thorns of say point blank the terrible truth ... It is better to show first how you're a nice girl, open, well bred and very funny ;-)
Then, when the fish is hooked, uncheck the arrow:
'Me? Well, actually I am a teacher. " ( Gloop -audible in the speaker-nurse) . 'English teacher'.
GASP! And then one of two things: either you address an embarrassed smile that ends the conversation, or is the door open to a litany of almost invariable, which usually begins with:
'Oh dear; especially do not make me talk, because even after all these years of English, I could not say a word! "
Sounds familiar?
In France, many believe that as long as you're not bilingual, it is zero. I hope you not?
Just yesterday, the TGV, in fact, I read a book not bad at all true that I recommend to beginners false reading in VO:
' Walter's Leg and Other Short Stories 'by Ruth Rendell (159 pages - 2000)
Minimum level required: B1
(to determine your level of reading, see the pages of June 09 of this blog)
It Collection 'Read in English' Pocket Book which I have already spoken on this blog (see post from 14/06/2009). This collection is interesting because the author, Ruth Rendell, writer known for his thrillers London-based well-crafted plots and writing high quality, not exception to the rule here either. Four new very different in this book are, as always in this collection, the text (full, non-adapted) is on the left and the right page are the most difficult words explained by words or definitions transparent. It's very well done for those who want to start reading in English without getting discouraged. There are even some fifty pages at the end of volume summarize the words seen in a long alphabetical list.
What changes is that, for once, new deductions are recent. You can also enjoy the same if you do not like crime stories, but rather soft compared with sordid stories invented by Roald Dahl, for example.
So next time you encounter a (an) English teacher, you can say
'Oh, okay. You know what? I often read books in their original version. I love it. "
No need to mention The Right page ;-)
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