【新外研版】教材帮必修第一册 Unit 2 Developing ideas
Misadventures in English
Last week,our forum asked if you had any funny or strange stories about using English.We didn't expect to get so many posts!Here are some of our favourites,to remind us that some of the English we learn in the classroom is rather different from the English in the outside world!
Yancy
People say that the British always play safe with what they eat.Not true!I went to a summer school in Manchester and my English teacher was called Maggie.One day,a different teacher took our class.He told us that Maggie couldn't teach that day COZ she had a frog in her throat.Poor Maggie — but why did she try to eat such a big frog?
Sophie
When I first visited New York,I went to a downtown shopping centre to buy some winter boots.At the information desk at the entrance, I asked a lady where the shoe section was.She said that it was on the first floor.So I went up to the first floor,but couldn't find any shoes. I decided to leave. When I was looking for the exit, I saw that shoes were actually sold downstairs on the ground floor,not the first floor. Why did she give me the wrong information?
Julien
I've got an English penfriend,who I finally got to meet in London this summer.He had told me that his grandfather was "really wicked".But when I met his grandfather,I liked him a lot. I found it very odd. Why did my friend use a negative word about such a nice man?
Zheng Xu
The British must have really high standards.I was part of a student exchange programme between a university in England and my university in China.I spent days preparing and writing my first English paper.I knew I had done a good job and was looking forward to getting a positive comment. When I got the paper back,I found my teacher had written the comment "Not bad!"Not bad? But there weren't any errors in my paper.