“I just need to speak more.”
I hear that a lot.
My reply, “No, you don’t.”
Master Fluent English
by Mr. Vig
by Mr. Vig
I have a friend in Prague who teaches people how to quit smoking.
“How did you quit?” I asked him one day.
“I read a book,” he told me. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
“What are doing in Bansko?” asked a Bulgarian student with a surprised look on his face.
“Working and skiing,” I replied.
And when I’m neither working nor skiing, I’m travelling. Read More >
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Yesterday I taught you the difference between “original” and “traditions.”
If you write a song, it’s an original song: there’s no other song like it in the world — it’s unique.
If you use your grandmother’s recipe to bake a pie, it’s a traditional dish in your family. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
by Mr. Vig
A reader from the former USSR writes:
“Before I thought that school methods are only used in USSR, but now I see this is a worldwide problem.”
When I was a kid in the ‘80s, if you wanted to reject a classmate’s idea and do it with style, you questioned the origin of that idea. Read More >
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In the future, will the robots take your job?
Will they take my job?
That’s the big topic this winter. Read More >
by Mr. Vig
by Mr. Vig
I just checked yesterday’s Vit V comments on my blog.
Did you see it?
Yesterday’s Vitamin V got a 3.7 rating! Read More >
by Mr. Vig
STUDENT: I want you to correct my mistakes.
MR. VIG: Unfortunately, that doesn’t work.
STUDENT: But I do a lot of mistakes.
MR. VIG: Make… You MAKE a lot of mistakes.
STUDENT: Yes. That’s right. So please correct me when I do a mistake.
Students always ask me to correct them.
When I tell them it doesn’t work they look at me like I’m telling them the earth is flat. Read More >