Learn English with Funny Conversations
By Joe Crossman and Gail Crossman
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this book helps you to practice your english by reading some funny conversations from my facebook page. you can learn new vocabulary and other tips about learning english from this book and have a lot of fun at the same time. i wrote it because many of the books that are available for esl students are not very much fun. by the time you finish this book, you will be much better at reading.
Joe Crossman
Hello. Our names are Joe and Gail, and we teach English to foreign students at a university in Canada. My wife, Gail, and I have a strong belief that the best way to learn English is to make it fun and enjoyable. We try to do that every day in our classes and we have had wonderful results for many years. That is the same idea behind our books. We wanted to write funny books that could help readers have fun and improve their reading skills and vocabulary at the same time.
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Learn English with Funny Conversations - Joe Crossman
Foreword
In 2011, I started a facebook page with a very long and strange name. I called it, ESL Fun with the Question Box
. ESL stands for English as a Second Language, which is what my wife, Gail, and I teach at a university in Halifax, Canada. The Question Box is a box full of questions. It is a great teaching/learning tool that Gail and I invented and use in our classes. It really helps students practice their English and improve their skills in many ways.
I started this facebook page to help students outside my classes practice their English. This included old students of ours who had left our school, or gone back to their countries, as well as other English learners that I had never met from around the world. I want to help everybody in a fun way.
Our philosophy about learning English is that it should be fun. The things that you read about, write about, speak about, and listen to should be fun for you. If they are fun, then you will be interested and your brain will pay more attention. Then you will learn and remember more. If the material is boring, then you will have to force your brain to do it, and then it will be harder to learn and remember it.
So, on my page I ask a lot of questions, including many silly and crazy ones, to get people to participate. Once they write something, then I write back and the conversations we have are the fun practice.
In this book, I am going to show you some conversations that have happened on my page. I want to show you these so you can practice your reading skills and have fun with some hilarious conversations. I have changed the names of the speakers to protect people's identities. The people who write answers are trying hard to improve their English and that's the most important thing. When I respond to them, I usually rephrase their words if I have to so they can see how to say what they want to say in proper English. I usually don't directly fix people's grammar. There are plenty of other pages on facebook which concentrate on grammar, so I don't need to be just another one.
So, I hope you find this book as funny as I do because I laugh every day while helping learners practice their English. These people are really funny and really smart and really brave. How do I know? I know because you have to be smart to be funny in a second language.
Photo: What do you think about this hat? Many women have told me that I look great in it, but I'm not totally convinced. :-)
Lamarr: Great!!! Oh, yeah!
ESL Fun with the Question Box: Thanks, Lamarr. Why do you think women like this hat sn much? :-)
Lamarr: Hmmm. I didn't say that. Hahaha Maybe the women like the man wearing it. :-)
Kulie: You look like a donkey. LOOOOOL
Lamarr: Hahahah I was going to say what Kulie said, but I didn't want to hurt your feelings.
ESL Fun: What the....? I don't look like a donkey. I look like a movie star. That's what Gail said. :-)
Kulia: Gail is your wife, so she has to say nice things to you. That's her job. :-)
ESL Fun: Many German women have already written to me and said they think it looks really cool. So, what do you have to say about that, Kulie? :-)
Kulie: They or you are probably lying. Could you tell me the names of these German women? They have obviously fallen on their heads and they need medical attention.
ESL Fun: Kulie, these German women do not have any problems with their heads. They told me that they want their names kept secret because all of Germany is afraid of a crazy woman named, Kulie. LOOOL
Kulie: Now I know you are lying. :-) LOOOL
Donzo: Cooooool, Joe.
ESL Fun: Thanks, Donzo. You and other Mexican people definitely have great taste in hats. Do you wish you had one like this?
Donzo: It looks very warm, so I can't wear in my country, Joe. Please, save it for me when I come back to Canada. :-)
ESL Fun: No problem, Donzo. Hahahahaha
Suuki: Hahahahahaha You look like a cute dog!!! Lol
ESL Fun: A dog?!?!??!?! Suuki, I hate you five times now, and probably I will hate you five more times next week. :-)
Suuki: Oh, I will say sorry five times, Joe. I am only saying that you look super cute. :-)
ESL Fun: LOOOOOL Okay, Suuki. I forgive you now that you have explained to everyone on the Internet that you think I am cute. :-)
Both the students and I love talking about photos. If the photos are silly, like this one, then it instantly shows people that they can relax and have some fun. That is what people do in this conversation. They know I am only joking about being very handsome because this photo looks so ridiculous. Because of that, they try to say things that they wouldn't normally say to their teacher and this lets them practice and push their English further.
Suuki said I looked like a cute dog
so I told her that I hated her five times. This is not proper grammar, however, I heard one of my students joke one time that he wanted to kill someone two times because he was so angry and I thought it was really funny. Since then I have been saying it to my students as a joke and they really love it. Some people who are very strict about grammar would hate it and would be angry about an English teacher saying