Freddies English Teaching Course

[roxy]

English is quite confusing if it is not your first language.

 

I'm a native speaker and I get confused sometimes with English grammar.

 

 

Yeah well... It gets even more confusing when different people give you different answers

[FREDDIESDOUBLE]

Your welcome , lovely day .. feels like spring

[Emika]

Yeah well... It gets even more confusing when different people give you different answers

 

It's like that in my German lessons. The teachers tell me different things for the same thing that i'm trying to say.

 

Also, people from different regions say different things.

E.g. someone from London would say something different than someone from Bornemouth.

[FREDDIESDOUBLE]

It's like that in my German lessons. The teachers tell me different things for the same thing that i'm trying to say.

 

Also, people from different regions say different things.

E.g. someone from London would say something different than someone from Bornemouth.

 

Yup slang , thats what confuses the MFC most actually

[alice.loves.mika]

You can say when it is happening (in present):

 

"She is on her period"

"She is having her period"

 

 

If it was in the past, you'd say:

 

"She was on her period"

"She has had her period"

 

 

but there also are little codes that people use in English you know, "It's her time of the month", "the painters are in" etc.

[Emika]

Yup slang , thats what confuses the MFC most actually

 

It confuses me and I am English.

[roxy]

You can say when it is happening (in present):

 

"She is on her period"

"She is having her period"

 

 

If it was in the past, you'd say:

 

"She was on her period"

"She has had her period"

 

 

but there also are little codes that people use in English you know, "It's her time of the month", "the painters are in" etc.

 

"The painters are in?"

We use the first one in dutch as well.

[cisserz]

This is quite funny

[FREDDIESDOUBLE]

This is quite funny

 

Fabby pleased you think so

[cisserz]

[saint_tails_09]

You can say when it is happening (in present):

 

"She is on her period"

"She is having her period"

 

 

If it was in the past, you'd say:

 

"She was on her period"

"She has had her period"

 

 

but there also are little codes that people use in English you know, "It's her time of the month", "the painters are in" etc.

 

Also, if you're talking about yourself you could say:

I'm on my period. (Present Tense)

I'm having my period. (Present Tense)

I have had my period. (Past Tense)

I was on my period. (Past Tense)

I'm going to be on my period. (Future Tense)

I'm going to have my period. (Future Tense)

 

I don't know when you might ever use the future tense but, whatever.

 

Then there's the slang:

It's that time of month.

Gift from mother nature.

 

I'm sure there's others, but I only use the first one.

[Shikutukumimika]

Also, if you're talking about yourself you could say:

I'm on my period. (Present Tense)

I'm having my period. (Present Tense)

I have had my period. (Past Tense)

I was on my period. (Past Tense)

I'm going to be on my period. (Future Tense)

I'm going to have my period. (Future Tense)

 

I don't know when you might ever use the future tense but, whatever.

 

Then there's the slang:

It's that time of month.

Gift from mother nature.

 

I'm sure there's others, but I only use the first one.

 

When you know you'll have your period soon..

[cisserz]

Freddie, was this meant to turn into a thread for 'girl stuff'?

[FREDDIESDOUBLE]

Freddie, was this meant to turn into a thread for 'girl stuff'?

 

Errrrr nooooo but I don't mind

 

Any boy / man issues we want to talk about ?

 

Im the owl of knowledge ask away

[dcdeb]

 

but there also are little codes that people use in English you know, "It's her time of the month", "the painters are in" etc.

 

Those "little codes" are called euphemisms -- a euphemism is a phrase you

use in place of another that might be embarrassing or unpleasant in some

way.

 

"her time of the month"

"a visit from Aunt Flo"

 

etc.

 

"passed away" would be a euphemism for "died"

 

That sort of thing.

 

Just thought I'd broaden the subject a bit

 

 

I don't know when you might ever use the future tense but, whatever.

 

How about, "I'm so old I will never have another period again!" ?

 

 

Errrrr nooooo but I don't mind

 

Any boy / man issues we want to talk about ?

 

Im the owl of knowledge ask away

 

Eww, yuck, no... why would we want to talk about boy stuff?

[FREDDIESDOUBLE]

Deb .. :roftl:

 

That was the perfect line

 

Ill leave you to you girlish ways

 

Men .. huh .. <shrugs> swines they are , beasts ppftttttttttttttt etc:aah:

[guylainem123]

you know deb... with equality of the sexes... i suppose we'd have to listen to that as well

[FREDDIESDOUBLE]

Come on fellow female and fellow femine at times males

 

Lets rejoice in femalenesssss

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eIkRiqxWcYU

 

If I were a booyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy laaaaa laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[cisserz]

[Shikutukumimika]

 

Girls are so much more interesting.

[Tayler]

Boys have cooties

[cisserz]

[Tayler]

"Cooties is a non-scientific term in North American English used by children for an imaginary "disease" said to infect through contact. The term may have originated with references to lice, fleas and other pests. A child is said to "catch" cooties through any form of bodily contact, proximity, or touching of an "infected" person or from a person of the opposite sex of the same age. The phrase is most commonly used by children aged 4–10; however it is also used by many others older than 10 years of age."

 

I rest my case

 

[cisserz]

"Cooties is a non-scientific term in North American English used by children for an imaginary "disease" said to infect through contact. The term may have originated with references to lice, fleas and other pests. A child is said to "catch" cooties through any form of bodily contact, proximity, or touching of an "infected" person or from a person of the opposite sex of the same age. The phrase is most commonly used by children aged 4–10; however it is also used by many others older than 10 years of age."

 

I rest my case

 

 

LOL

[Ruth]

"Cooties is a non-scientific term in North American English used by children for an imaginary "disease" said to infect through contact. The term may have originated with references to lice, fleas and other pests. A child is said to "catch" cooties through any form of bodily contact, proximity, or touching of an "infected" person or from a person of the opposite sex of the same age. The phrase is most commonly used by children aged 4–10; however it is also used by many others older than 10 years of age."

 

I rest my case

 

 

 

I didn't know it was imaginary; I thought cooties was slang for lice. And I didn't know it was an opposite sex insult either.