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American teachers teach a class and students take the class. In the UK...?
A friend sent me this thread.
[nq:1] I can never remember the American way of describing whether you attend a class as a student or take ... any kind of subject, but you take (or guide ) the students (class) through the intricacies of a given subject.[/nq]
Another Brit concurs:
[nq:1] we've got the English/American language gap opening up again here! In the UK the person who "takes" the class ... to me at least, when Sheila says that (famous instructor) "takes" a class at (famous venue), that makes perfect sense.[/nq]
Is this so? In the UK, teachers don't teach classes? Students don't take them?
As they say in Minnesota... uff da!
[nq:1] I can never remember the American way of describing whether you attend a class as a student or take ... any kind of subject, but you take (or guide ) the students (class) through the intricacies of a given subject.[/nq]
Another Brit concurs:
[nq:1] we've got the English/American language gap opening up again here! In the UK the person who "takes" the class ... to me at least, when Sheila says that (famous instructor) "takes" a class at (famous venue), that makes perfect sense.[/nq]
Is this so? In the UK, teachers don't teach classes? Students don't take them?
As they say in Minnesota... uff da!
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[/nq] Yikes! Here Michael Jackson is the only one who "does the class".
- [/nq] Yikes!
- Here Michael Jackson is the only one who "does the class".
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[nq:1]In the UK the person who "takes" the class is the[/nq]
[nq:2]teacher, the students "do" THE CLASS.[/nq]
Yikes! Here Michael Jackson is the only one who "does the class".
[nq:2]teacher, the students "do" THE CLASS.[/nq]
Yikes! Here Michael Jackson is the only one who "does the class".
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