selling things at a trade fair

04 Feb 2014

What household cleaners do we use?

We looked at which household cleaners we used:

detergent Frosch Mr Proper
liquid soap liquid cleanser Spree
toilet brush Pril washing-up liquid
washing powder Toilet Duck Tipp
Gut und Günstig Fairy Ecover

I suspect that the company in the book EcoClean is based on the name Ecover.

the sound that g makes in English

The general rule is:

Remember as we are talking about English there are exceptions like the word “get” which has the hard G probably because it is related to the German verb gessen

Referencing with this and that

We had a question where one of the options was “due to that fact” and that particular answer would not fit into the sentence because of the way that that (and of course this) work in referencing things. Here are two similar sentences:

  1. I like ice-cream and believe it is good manners to clear my plate completely because of that fact I ate it all.
  2. I like ice-cream and believe it is good manners to clear my plate completely because of this I ate it all.

The difference is that the first sentence focuses our attention on the “like ice-cream” part and the second focuses our attention on the “clearing my plate completely”.

Product names used for objects in everyday speech

In English (especially British English) it is common for the names of a particular companies product to become the generic name for objects:

These are called generic trademarks and there are many others too.

There are examples of this phenomenon in German too:


practising selling things to each other

We practised using the language of selling to each other in the class and we looked at how effective we were at it. This is covered in a separate posting here.