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Published on: 6/21/2007
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Compare, for example, this one, by Alexander Cockburn, to this one, by ESPN writer Eric Neel.
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Well, Eric Neel told me what it would have been like, a little.
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Thanks for asking, (Chicago Tribune columnist) Rick (Morrissey).Introductions are often difficult for new language students.When he began to learn English, (new Chicago Bulls coach Scott) Skiles may have memorized a series of rote phrases such as "I live in..." and "There are (x) people in my family", and while he may be able to produce those phrases with a reasonable degree of confidence, he may not yet be ready to expand on them.In this case, we can assume Skiles announced that "My hobby is reading a book", but we should not take that as indicating a command of the present progressive verb tense on his part -- rather, we should use that phrase as a launching point for teaching him new sentence structures that will allow Skiles to describe himself in greater detail, and ultimately have him making appropriate tense selections between the simple present and the aforementioned present progressive.So allay your frustrations, Rick! (New Chicago Bulls coach Scott) Skiles is not holding out on you -- he's actually giving you your next teaching assignment!Thanks for writing.