Laughter Means Understanding

 

I was teaching last week and for the first time in months I felt the urge to share the original version of the English blooper post.  You can read my motivation for writing this there.   My student is quite young but  she was really laughing when she was reading it. It dawned on me that she was authentically laughing because she authentically knew that the mistakes were so bad they were funny. Laughter means understanding. What would be really funny if I told her where I got these quotes from. Allow me to reiterate, I did not source my material from students. I got them from people who proport to be better than ESL students. Moral of the story:  if your grammar is so bad that a young ESL student finds it laughable then brush up on your subject/ verb agreement, article rules, prepositions , verb tenses , spelling and conjugation. 

Ed

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• Student inform to be absent   ( English major said this) 
• I was able to see a news 
• I always had a fruitful conversation with you. See you soon. Stay well. 
• You have so many food that you eat 
• What do you think is this? 
• Travelled but never lived in abroad  
• work in fast food as a part-time
• what did you ate for breakfast  ?
• work in fast food as a part-time
• She did not speak fast. The phasing was just right for the student. 
• She goes to the gym every weekend with her husband and go to the grocery store together.
• She can not teach to a public school in Japan because she is not a Japanese.  
•  - student answered, unfortunately she will not be able to take the lesson. Call was ended
• He was 21 years old.  ( You only say this when the person will no longer age. ) 
• Hi. Good evening you where absent in today's  *****  I hope to see you again next time. ( this was a written note) 
• Lives to her house for 3yrs. ( if you are like me , then you live to eat but eating is a verb not a noun) 
• I`m happy to talked with you again Ms ___ .  o :) Thank you so much for sharing a lot of things especially about your passion. You are such an amazing woman. Take care always and have a  great evening! ( first sentence has 2 verbs but the tenses don't match. Read up on infinitives ) 
• Thank you so much!  Good luck to your studies! ( you don't wish good luck to your studies. You do wish good luck to your brother though)
• M***  is a very kind students, and she can talk a lot if it is a free talking, just enjoy the the class with her.
• You've shared an interesting information about your traditional costume. Thanks for sharing! ( look up uncountable nouns) 
• ..........lesson was ended at 18:55 ( there might be reasons for two verbs both in the past tense to be back to back but I doubt this is one of them). 

Meanings of Yield

 

 

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/yield

yield

verb

UK  /jiːld/ US  /jiːld/

yield verb (PRODUCE)

 

C2 [ T ]

to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food or information:

an attempt to yield increased profits

The investigation yielded some unexpected results.

Favourable weather yielded a good crop.

The process yields oil for industrial use.

Burning waste yields energy that can be used for electric power or heating.

The excavation yielded some superb artifacts.

Early radio equipment yielded poor sound quality.

The experiments yielded some surprising results.

  

yield 

verb (GIVE UP)

 

[ I or T ]

to give up the control of or responsibility for something, often because you have been forced to:

They were forced to yield (up) their land to the occupying forces.

Despite renewed pressure to give up the occupied territory, they will not yield.

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yield verb (BEND/BREAK)

 

[ I ] formal

to bend or break under pressure:

His legs began to yield under the sheer weight of his body.

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yield verb (STOP)

 

[ I ] US

(UK give way)

to stop in order to allow other vehicles to go past, especially before you drive onto a bigger road:

If you're going downhill, you need to yield to bikers going uphill.

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Phrasal verb

yield to sth

 

yield

noun [ C usually plural ]

UK  /jiːld/ US  /jiːld/

 

an amount of something positive, such as food or profit, that is produced or supplied:

Crop yields have risen steadily.

Yields on gas and electricity shares are consistently high.

 

US  /jild/

yield verb (PRODUCE)

 

[ T ]

to supply or produce something positive such as a profit, an amount of food, or information:

Some mutual funds are currently yielding 15% on new money invested.

 

[ T ]

If something yields information, it provides it:

A letter found by the FBI last week may yield new clues.

yield verb (GIVE UP)

 

[ I/T ]

to give up the control of or responsibility for something, often because you have been forced to:

[ T ] to yield power

 

[ I/T ]

If you yield to something, you accept that you have been defeated by it:

[ I ] It’s easy to yield to the temptation to borrow a lot of money.

 

[ I/T ]

To yield to traffic coming from another direction is to wait and allow it to go first.

 

yield

noun [ C usually pl ]

US  /jild/

yield noun [C usually pl] (PRODUCE)

 

a profit or an amount esp. of a crop produced:

Over the past 50 years, crop yields have risen steadily in the US.