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Title: Warning: BRITISH ENGLISH
Review: I'm very disappointed in this product because no where in its description does it say so, but it teaches British ENglish. I have a previous edition, and love it because the English is so natural and the explanations are so clear. But the examples in this one, while perfectly natural in the UK, require a lot of explanation on my part. FOr example, "He's having a shower." That's an example of present continuous tense. Sorry , but American's don't speak that way. Also stuff like, "It's the shop in Davis Street." I have spent so much time teaching that we say ON a street, not IN it and the British English contradicts me. It's very subtle stuff, most of it, but it's more common than you'd think. Almost every page has examples. Unfortunately, my student has already written her name in it by the time I noticed. It should clearly say that it's for speakers and learners of British English.
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