Common grammar mistakes: correcting errors politely

Common grammar mistakes β€” a B2 English lesson. Practise identifying and correcting common errors and expand vocabulary around language and communication.

Common grammar mistakes: correcting errors politely
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Summary

This ESL lesson for B2 English students explores English grammar errors. Using a real video as the basis for discussion, students develop reading and listening comprehension, vocabulary, and grammar skills across a 90-minute class.

The grammar focus is Common Grammatical Errors. Key vocabulary includes rounding up (phrasal verb), assure (verb), double negative (noun) and more, all drawn directly from the source material. The practical English section gives students useful phrases for real-life situations: You are in a conversation and you notice someone has made a small mistake in English. You want to help them by correcting it, but you want to be polite and encouraging, not rude or arrogant..

Activities

0:00 [Music]
0:11 good morning Mr lapit I am Colonel Hans
0:14 Landa of the SS I was hoping you could
0:16 invite me inside your home and we could
0:18 have a discussion of course please come
0:23 in now as you may have heard I am in
0:27 charge of rounding up all the Jews in
0:29 this Village yes I have heard that are
0:32 you aware of any Jews hiding in the
0:34 area no no I I assure you there haven't
0:37 been no Jews in this Village there
0:40 haven't been no Jews so there have been
0:43 some Jews oh uh sorry no I meant uh
0:47 there haven't been any juice no juice
0:50 here sorry I was confused by a double
0:53 negative you see Grandma's very
0:55 important to the Nazi
1:02 party now I you familiar with one
1:02 shashana
1:04 D yes I know
1:07 her me and her buy our milk at the same
1:10 Market me and her surely you meant to
1:14 say she and I
1:16 no yes of
1:18 course the trick is to take the other
1:21 person out of the sentence to see if it
1:24 makes
1:25 sense Me by milk I think not I I buy
1:30 milk you see I swear I do not know where
1:33 m isus is
1:36 at did you just end a sentence with a
1:39 preposition forgive me Colonel when was
1:42 the last time you saw the JW
1:44 dfus about a month ago I was walking by
1:48 the river Pon and I saw dfus fishing so
1:51 I went down to the river bank to see if
1:55 it was her but I couldn't get a confused
2:02 did you really think I was so stupid I
2:04 wouldn't recognize a runon sentence
2:07 sorry there was no Jews here Jew or Jews
2:11 plural plural wrong you have to match
2:15 your subject with your verb what do you
2:17 want from
2:18 me I've heard from numerous sources you
2:21 are hiding
2:23 madus from
2:26 who from whom
2:33 don't kill me
2:36 please Mita I have one more question for
2:39 you if you answer correctly I will leave
2:41 you and your family at peace if not you
2:45 are coming with
2:47 me now let's say you were writing a
2:51 list would you or would you not put a
2:54 Karma before the end it depends on
2:57 whether you are following the Chicago
2:58 Manual of style or the Associated Press
3:01 guide hiding under the floorboards I
3:04 have finally found you
3:07 wait you are hiding under the
3:09 floorboards or is she a dangling
3:12 participle a dangling participle
3:16 [Music]

Vocabulary focus

The vocabulary section introduces B2-level words and phrases related to English grammar errors. Key terms include rounding up (phrasal verb), assure (verb), double negative (noun), preposition (noun), run-on sentence (noun). Students practise using these terms in context through exercises drawn from the source material.

Grammar focus

This lesson focuses on Common Grammatical Errors. The video humorously highlights several common errors in English. At B2 level, it's important to master these.

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Correct Common Grammar Mistakes | Pronoun Usage B2
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