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On which subject, why is ELT such a poor relation as far as TESconnect is concerned? You can't teach ELT to someone unless they're over 16 (given the choices offered by their categorization), and good luck searching for anything unless it's related to schools (the non-language sort).
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Fast vs quick in the sense speedy or rapid
Fast
with a
noun:
Fast car
Fast relief
Fast train
Fast connection (during a journey of several stages – e.g.
train/bus/plane, or
train/train)
Fast food
idiomatic phrases:
Make fast time (more often “make good time”)
Fast and furious [or alliterative phrases see a later blog]
as modifier
for adjective:
Fast-acting
Fast-track (originally of a train on
an express line, often used figuratively: “The
course lasts 3 years, but there is a fast-track programme lasting only
18 months involving extra home study and online seminars.” A further extension
to this use is the verb to fast-track:
“We normally recruit at grade 00, but graduate entrants are fast-tracked and
start at grade 01.”
Quick
a
noun:
Quick change
Quick recipe
Quick recap
Quick summary
Quick introduction
Quick look
Quick overview
Quick worker (typically in a social or sexual context – someone who
isn’t
reticent)
idiomatic
phrases/expressions:
in [double-]quick time
quick and easy
quick and dirty (used often in
the IT world, referring to inelegant programming
that gets a job done:
“If we do it properly, it’ll take a month; but I can
knock together something quick and dirty in a
week.”
It was quite quick
Be quick [about it]
Come quick (some would argue that
this is a lazy abbreviation of “Come
quickly”, but I disagree; I think it’s a
perfectly correct abbreviation
of “Come [here and be] quick
[about it]” [Another justification is just
that it's a bare adverb. Anyway, it's perfectly grammatical]
that it's a bare adverb. Anyway, it's perfectly grammatical]
to give something a quick wipe/glance/etc.
as modifier
for adjective:
Quick-acting
Quick-fire (originally of repeating
guns, but often used figuratively – in, say, quiz
shows: “Now it’s time for the quick-fire round,
so fingers on buzzers – the
first team with the correct answer gets a point,”
Quick-drying glue/cement/paint (But,
“Have you tried this new quick-drying
paint?
It dries really fast” – where “really fast” is less informal than “real
quick” [and I don’t
think I’ve heard “really quick” in this context])
That's all for today. I compiled this on the train home from a class in Oxford (no WiFi) - so I haven't yet given it the corpus treatment; which I should do. Another day, perhaps...
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That's all for today. I compiled this on the train home from a class in Oxford (no WiFi) - so I haven't yet given it the corpus treatment; which I should do. Another day, perhaps...
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