Mar Rojo
Junior Member
- Joined
- Jun 15, 2011
- Member Type
- English Teacher
- Native Language
- British English
- Home Country
- Ireland
- Current Location
- UK
Some students can be quite testing, and I had one such student last week. He had come across a discussion on the mediopassive in English and wanted a few examples from me. I offered these:
This shirt irons easily.
The book reads well.
X the soup that eats like a meal.
pole telescopes to 5 inches
He the asked me if I thought the mediopassive was worth classroom and home-study time, and my first response was in the negative, but now I have changed my mind. It seems the mediopassive is growing in English. It appears in marketing texts and in product leaflets, so could be useful to any student wanting to work in sales, or a similar area of business. The thing is, most of my colleagues disagree. Some of them say it doesn't work in English, and others say it is much too uncommon to be given attention in class.
So, apologies for such a long explanation in one of my first posts here, but what do you all think. Is it worth learning how to use the mediopassive?
This shirt irons easily.
The book reads well.
X the soup that eats like a meal.
pole telescopes to 5 inches
He the asked me if I thought the mediopassive was worth classroom and home-study time, and my first response was in the negative, but now I have changed my mind. It seems the mediopassive is growing in English. It appears in marketing texts and in product leaflets, so could be useful to any student wanting to work in sales, or a similar area of business. The thing is, most of my colleagues disagree. Some of them say it doesn't work in English, and others say it is much too uncommon to be given attention in class.
So, apologies for such a long explanation in one of my first posts here, but what do you all think. Is it worth learning how to use the mediopassive?