The Queen's English
Teaching English is a brilliant way to meet people. The team here run a very useful English course, which uses the Bible as a way to teach both the language and the gospel.
Then yesterday while talking to some friends I suddenly had this "vision".
One of the big language schools in Bordeaux is called "Wall Street English" and they advertise on all the buses: "Do you speak English? Yes! Wall Street English!" Makes your blood run cold, doesn't it.
Imagine buses with another kind of advert for ... "The Queen's English", with a picture of George Bush and of the Queen saying "Don't speak like him, speak like me!".
I could do grammar and culture. Pat could teach cockney rhyming slang and a friend from the DEFLE, who does speak very much like the Queen, could come in to do diction and elocution.
It could work. It could work.
Then yesterday while talking to some friends I suddenly had this "vision".
One of the big language schools in Bordeaux is called "Wall Street English" and they advertise on all the buses: "Do you speak English? Yes! Wall Street English!" Makes your blood run cold, doesn't it.
Imagine buses with another kind of advert for ... "The Queen's English", with a picture of George Bush and of the Queen saying "Don't speak like him, speak like me!".
I could do grammar and culture. Pat could teach cockney rhyming slang and a friend from the DEFLE, who does speak very much like the Queen, could come in to do diction and elocution.
It could work. It could work.
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