English In Your Face

These are common mistakes I hear every day in class. Most of the errors you will see in this short presentation are due to native language interference. This comes about because: - The student probably learned with the grammar-translation method - The structure in English is alien to the structure in Spanish, setting up a classic negative learning situation. Intensive drilling of the correct form, every day at first and then a periodic surprise progress check, is required to correct these very tenacious errors.