Mr. Lau, thanks for your teaching, I have listened to your teaching programmes in my childhood, all of this are useful for my communication with the foreign people, thank you.
First of all, this is how you should have asked your question: "Why DID the examiner USE the present tense for those questions?" Now, remind me what the questions were and I'll see if I can still make myself useful. Oh, it's been a very, very long time! Cheers! 👻 家傑 June 2023
@@josiahlau2506 19:38 Q: What does he think about local TV productions? A: He thinks local productions are very good. 19:58 Q: What did he say about local TV productions? A: He said local productions were very good.
19:38 The examiner intended to ask the candidate to report a person’s opinion. Usually, what a person thinks about a particular thing is relatively static. In most cases, it won’t easily change in a short time. That’s why the examiner used the simple present tense here. 19:58 The examiner intended to ask the candidate to retell a person’s words. The verb “say” in the question refers to an action that occurred in the past. That's why the past tense should be used here. In my opinion, what Mr Lau intended to emphasize is that the tense used in the answer should be consistent with that used in the question, whichever tense the examiner uses.
温故知新百聽不厭
多謝. 祝兩位兔年健康, 心想事成.
家傑 、異域初一, 12：39 a.m. 🐰
@@jasminezhu0920 Did you talk to him ?
Iconic person in teaching English field!
同意你说的，英文要朗读。好多的生字，查了字典懂得发音，不断的读至准确熟悉，才能读好整篇文章。英文不是我的语言，只是让自己进步！
That's not outdated even though I watch these programs after 27 years.
Mr. Lau, thanks for your teaching, I have listened to your teaching programmes in my childhood, all of this are useful for my communication with the foreign people, thank you.
流花𠎀就係英語界嘅天花板！
流花
其實個深層次嘅原因系平時講中文都冇呢個禮儀所以咪只能機械式回應囉。當入電梯時急不及待要撳過閂門掣又點會有心態問人是否安好呢？
英文普及化❤
Very good thanks
19:38 Why the examiner used present tense for this question ?
First of all, this is how you should have asked your question: "Why DID the examiner USE the present tense for those questions?"
Now, remind me what the questions were and I'll see if I can still make myself useful.
Oh, it's been a very, very long time! Cheers! 👻 家傑 June 2023
@@josiahlau2506
19:38
Q: What does he think about local TV productions?
A: He thinks local productions are very good.
19:58
Q: What did he say about local TV productions?
A: He said local productions were very good.
19:38
The examiner intended to ask the candidate to report a person’s opinion. Usually, what a person thinks about a particular thing is relatively static. In most cases, it won’t easily change in a short time. That’s why the examiner used the simple present tense here.
19:58
The examiner intended to ask the candidate to retell a person’s words. The verb “say” in the question refers to an action that occurred in the past. That's why the past tense should be used here.
In my opinion, what Mr Lau intended to emphasize is that the tense used in the answer should be consistent with that used in the question, whichever tense the examiner uses.
@@jasminezhu0920
Thanks very much, Jasmine. 🥰 👍
@@josiahlau2506劉老師，近況好嗎？
Is he speaking mandarin?
cantonese
18:48 ' has married ' should be ' had married '
No