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to go between = b) act as a messenger between two parties

e.g. I am tired of going between the fighting husband and wife.

to go between =a) to travel between two places

e.g. This train goes between Toronto and Kitchener.

3) to go broke = to go bust = to declare oneself or one’s business unable to pay debts
e.g. If the economy doesn’t improve, many companies may go bust.

-to Go bad = to turn sour or start to decay; no longer fresh to eat or drink

e.g. Don’t drink this milk; it has gone bad.

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to GO against the grain = to be completely contrary to one’s beliefs and the accepted norm
e.g. It goes against the grain that I am being forced to disclose confidential information.

e.g. Following such advice would go totally against the grain.

Refers to the fact that someone who rubs his/her hand against the grain (a small hard seed) on a piece of lumber will get splinters.

Phrasal verbs consist of verbs plus one or two particles. They are called phrasal not only because they represent a two or three word phrases, but because most of them have phraseological, i.e. idiomatic meanings.
Phrasal verbs are a feature of an informal talk and they have their more formal equivalents. However, to be able to engage in a lively conversation you have to be familiar with them, as well as be able to use them. Six most common verbs found in phrasal verbs are:

GET, TAKE, PUT, COME, GO, SET

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There has been an ongoing and long-lasting collective aberration among students, making numerous and sometimes futile attempts to master English about the “superiority” of English native speakers in the role of the language teacher.

This bias is quite persistent, sometimes to the point that English teachers whose mother tongue is not English deliver mostly grammar instruction and English native speakers teach communication courses. You can find some educational websites where you see the hourly rate for native speakers’ services exceeding the one of their non-native speaking counterparts.

On the one hand, there are non-native speaking teaching professionals, who learned the language by the book, were educated in their own countries and may lack the knowledge of the live English.

On the other hand, there are a lot of eager native speakers who learned their first language intuitively in the childhood, were not taught grammar at school, which is commonplace, and thus unable to explain it. Following a one-month training course, and one month is all that is required to teach in a private sector, they are awarded with CELTA, Certificate in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. They are quite enthusiastic to start enlightening their students because they do speak the language.

What do you think about it? Would you be able to teach your first language to locals after a one-month crash course? Isn’t this “gold standard teaching qualification”, as CELTA is known, a little bit substandard for an intelligent and demanding student?

Not to mention the different dialects the native speakers are representing. I bet, depending on your needs, you prefer to be exposed to the literary kind of English, which is British Received or Standard American pronunciation, not to some geographically exclusive local dialect.

What's your take on it?

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Elena believes in the integrated approach and teaches reading, writing, listening and speaking through a progression of levels according to Common European Framework, and aligned with Canadian Language Benchmarks. Elena teaches Standard American English which is the variant of North-American English spoken by university-educated native speakers in a professional setting.

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