Hi teachers! Have you ever stopped to think that many times what we see as a mistake can just be a lack of adequacy? What someone told you was wrong may not actually be a mistake. Huh? What do you mean?! Let me try to explain myself. Imagine the following situation: An American child, who has just moved to Portugal and is studying at an international school. He's in a math class and he says, "May I have the eraser, please?" The teacher immediately says: “Eraser no, rubber”. When I saw this scene, I confess that it gave me a knot in the head. The teacher considered the student's speech as an error. He felt the need to correct him and he did. For those who don't know, eraser and rubber mean the same thing in this context, but eraser is the term used in the United States and rubber is the term used in England. So, it is not wrong, but rather inappropriate. This is because at this school, they follow the British curriculum. Now I ask you. How would you have handled th...
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