Feedback after re-telling 'Chips with Everything' from Grapevine 1
Channel: Chris_Fry_Barcelona
Date: 2012-07-10

Students described what happened in the video and I collected problems to work on using an OHT (plastic sheet for the overhead projector. I went through the problems in class immediately afterwards and recorded myself doing so. I then made a video using Windows Movie Maker incorporating my recording.
The students were intermediate learners of EFL (English as a Foreign Language)

Transcript:
Okay, so let me just show you the things that I took notes about.  
So the first thing were these two sentences:
‘He doesn't have anything.’ And ‘He hasn’t got anything.’
They’re both correct: they are two alternatives. To my mind ‘He doesn't have anything.’ sounds perhaps a bit more American and ‘He hasn’t got anything.’ sounds a bit more British. But they’re both perfectly all right. They’re two ways of saying the same thing.

‘They order soup.’ ‘Order’ is a good word, but you can use ‘They ask for soup.’ ‘Order’ is a more specific word for a restaurant situation. ‘Can I take your order, madam?’ that’s what the waiter might say. Look, they mean exactly the same. The first two mean the same and the second two also mean the same. ‘They order soup.’ ‘They ask for soup.’ They just mean exactly the same: they’re alternative ways of saying the same thing.

And, here we’ve got ‘They decide to leave.’ At the very end, after what was the final thing? The finger in the soup, the thumb in the soup was the final thing. ‘They decide to leave.’ But in general, the reason they decide to leave is because the service is very bad. There are lots of examples of that. The thing they didn’t see was that ‘The waiter prepared the salad with his fingers.’ the sardines, everything, he just picked up with his fingers, disgusting.

And then the last thing there is ‘They went out of the restaurant.’ Now, ‘They went out of the restaurant.’ and ‘They decided to leave.’ are very similar.
Now you can see that the last two sentences are actually in the past: I’ve written: ‘He prepared the salad with his fingers.’ and ‘They went out of the restaurant.
Shall we go back over the other sentences and just make them past tense. So, how do you make this past? ‘The service was very bad.’ and the pronunciation is ‘The s e r vice was ve ry bad.’
And this one here? How do you pronounce that word? ‘decided’, yes that’s it. ‘They decided to leave.’ Any verbs that end in ‘d’ or ‘t’ if you add ‘-ed’, it’s ‘id’: wanted, waited, decided, ended.
And this one here?  ‘ased’ now with ‘asked’ the pronunciation is just ‘ased’. It is difficult to pronounce: forget the ‘k’ and just say ‘ased’. ‘They asked for soup.’
And this one? ‘ordered’, ‘ordered’, ‘order’, ‘ordered’ ‘They ordered soup.’
Now, how do we do this? I think let’s change this one to ‘He didn’t have anything.’ and this one, there’s no real past, ‘didn’t have’ is the only past. ‘He didn’t have anything.’
‘He hadn’t got anything.’ It could be, yeah. Let’s put that one in as well. ‘He hadn’t got anything.’ Yeah, that is also possible.

469 words (not counting all the ‘yeah’, ‘um’, ‘ah’ 4: 27 minutes  about 100 wpm
Chris Fry