English is stupid, students are not: complete kit

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Whether you are learning it, teaching it, or English is your first language, English is Stupid provides a fascinating expose on the mechanics of how Spoken English works. Six rules of spoken English are simple and absolute. English is Stupid is absorbing to those who are native speakers of English and critical for those who aren’t. This resource addresses every element of the speaking skill. The format is a working textbook with notes and answers on the left-hand side for teachers, and lessons and exercises on the facing pages for students. It is assumed students will read the teacher’s side, and if they can grasp it – more power to them. This resources addresses the disassociation between letters and sounds in English. It includes a functional phonetic alphabet – the first one ever to exist. This resource also identifies English as a stress-based as opposed to sound-based language. It highlights the significance of stress and how it is created. This resource releases students from the burden of perfect grammar. They learn that important words carry the day and are all that is required to participate effectively in discourse. This resource begins to deal with the abstract nature of English. Speaking is lazy, and word breaks occur independently of how words are printed. More than half the words that learnershear can’t be found in a dictionary. (Whadazat mean?). This resource lays grammar in its final resting place. Grammar is linear, but English is idiomatic. Students learn that English is composed of thousands of fixed groups of words that suggest images. The ‘collocation’ paradigm answers why there is no such thing as ‘Merry Birthday’ and how ‘a stitch in time’ means prevention. This resource focuses on non-verbal communication deals with the significance of culturally appropriate gestures and the use of voice qualities to convey over 80% of native speaker’s messages. The power of body language dwarfs all other aspects of speaking combined.The resource is rife with anecdotes and examples and the tone is light and easy to follow. With this text as a guide, every academic level can learn the speaking principles and floodgates open to a new-found sense of understanding, community, self-expression, productivity and belonging.