English

So today I sat in on this English grammar class. The teacher is this weirdo with long super curly hair like Benjamin Franklin (except with black hair). He kept flipping his hair and looking at his own reflection. He laughs at his own jokes (as most professors tend to do) but anyway, this isn't about his looks. At first I just let weird Konglish (English made up in Korea) go when people I knew used it but today I was this man teach it to a class. It was a fill in the blank. On Saturday night, I started to sneeze. I ______ a cold in the afternoon. He told everyone it was "I had catched a cold" in the afternoon. Everyone in the class wrote it down. Of course since I wasn't registered for the class I couldn't just stand up and correct the teacher. Also he wrote on the board, "If you wash the dishes, I cook the dinner." This was supposed to be an example for the students to write down. It wasn't for "fix this sentence" either. He is an awful teacher. He didn't explain anything, he gave out a bunch of handouts that I bet some native speakers couldn't understand and expected them to figure all this shit out. I wonder how much they're paying this guy.

One handout he gave out was "Read the following text and underline all gerunds and infinitives. Then identify the function of each one." He gave it out waited for people to do it and didn't go over it. He only said look at it at home. It's on the test. There was another sentence that was weird, "Susan didn't come to the movie with us. She ________it." He said the correct answer was "She had forgotten it." He was not open to other answers. I thought it was supposed to be She had already watched it. or She had forgotten about it. MEHHHH!!! That's why Koreans need to learn basics before studying grammar. At this level, they don't know what anything really means. When we first learn a language we learn words! Not sentence diagramming! *sigh* my laptop battery is gonna die. I'm done ranting :P