Have noticed of late that students are asking me many more questions than they used to about vocab/language during or after class. I can only put this down to the fact that I have stopped dictating which vocabulary they should focus on in a text, started asking more "do you have any questions about the vocabulary" questions and taking more time to explain/clarify vocab with personal examples of my own to reaffirm my self-importance. And I enjoy doing this. I can't prepare for it and it gets me thinking on my feet.
Today Akari Nhkahara from Japan approached me after class and told me that his dictionary says "
experiences" can be both a countable and uncountable noun. What is the difference? I told him that:
- If all the experiences were different (eg. eating in a Thai restaurant, bunjee jumping etc) then go with the countable, if it's all focused under the same bracket (I've had lots of experience with Apple computers, my work experience etc) then go uncountable ... but neither is wrong ... depending on the meaning you wish to express.
It would seem Mr Macmillan thinks slightly
differently.
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