Dear Expats and Russians, -----I'm thrilled to congratulate my 4th Form student-client, Fedor Jukov, who won the Nov. 2017 Cambridge Bulldog English Olympiad Competition with 81,989 competitors. Fedor earned the *only *perfect *100% *score in Moscow by answering 60 of 60 English grammar questions correctly. Fedor attends an I.B. school in Moscow though non of his other competing classmates earned a 100% score. Fedor's Olympiad award url link is in my CV url, *www.your-teachers.ru/george-william-dole <http://www.your-teachers.ru/george-william-dole>*. -----How did he do it? I gave him specialized intensive phrasal verb instruction for over 5 months prior to the Moscow English Olympiad. Several years ago another student showed me the 7th Form English Olympiad Phrasal Verb Crossword Puzzle which everyone in her "international school" failed to correctly complete in 20 minutes. Fedor's mother, who speaks English fluently, recognized Fedor's grammatical *blind-spot* and hired me last year to fill in his English grammar grammatical pot-holes, especially phrasal verb control. -----Fedor told me my instruction helped him answer correctly at least 15%(9 of 60) of the questions. If every question has only 4 answer choices the chance of correctly guessing all correct answers for the 9 questions that had phrasal verbs in either its question or correct answer was ¼ x ¼ x ¼ x ¼ x ¼ x ¼ x ¼ x ¼ x ¼ =1/262,144. That's one chance in 262,144. That's over 3 times the number of smart Russian 4th Form children who participated in the English Olympiad. We Yanks say the idiom that the other 81,987 children “had a snowflake's chance in Hell(0%)" of guessing all 9 questions that contain at least one phrasal verb in the question or answer correctly. -----Several years ago I copied the 4,129 English formal phrasal verbs listed in the “Cambridge Phrasal Verb Plus” book into an Excel spreadsheet and totaled the number of their meanings(11,561). That's about 2.8 meanings per phrasal verb. Who wants to learn 11,561 formal phrasal verb meanings? No one. If you can't spot them instantly learning some but not all 4129 phrasal verbs is you only alternative. Plus, any Native English Speaker can make almost any verb a phrasal verb by adding words like “up” or “out”. -----Fedor achievement shows he can instantly understand any Native English Speaker all day saying or writing almost any phrasal verb the first minute he meets him or her. What is the value of this ability? I think, priceless but, I leave that up to you. -----I noticed that only English editors occasionally developed this ability over time. It happened accidentally to me in Moscow during 2009 after many months of editing TOEFL and GMAT essays almost daily. I call it "Matrix"(like the movie)English. The rate of developing this ability is directly correlated to the frequency and length of classes. I developed a methodology to reduce the time it takes to "start" to demonstrate this ability from many months to several months depending on frequency and length of classes. -----Fedor will compete in this year's 5th Form English Olympiad and should produce similar stellar results. His classmates will continue to be under-prepared for phrasal verbs while Fedor will have an even stronger control of them. -----His brother, Boris, goes to a school rated the top 20 in Moscow. Boris is already stronger than Fedor with his phrasal verb control using my methodology. Boris was too busy to participate in the Olympiad last year but he will compete in this year's English Olympiad. He should easily be among the top 10 students in the 8th Form in Moscow. I also have an 11th Form student who is already mostly prepared for the 11th English Olympiad. She made it to the 3rd level last year. She eagerly anticipates this year's English Olympiad to reach at least the 4th level and gain its educational payment benefits. -----My first 100% Cambridge Bulldog English Olympiad was in 2012 at the International English School(Elena Nikolaevna-Asst Dir) in Gribanova in the Rublovka suburbs. Unfortunately, the family moved to Singapore to join her father working there so the enthusiastic girl could not continue studying with me. -----If you have know anyone 4 to 64+ years old who quickly needs stronger English grammar (especially phrasal verb control) please don't hesitate to call me or have them call or email me directly. *-----Please use my new email **[email protected] <[email protected]>*. My present email, *[email protected] <[email protected]>* gets too many non educational and spam emails which I need to wade through to find English teaching requests. I also use What's App if you include your daytime phone number. -----See my CV for all other contact information. Thank you. Best regards, George William Dole ************************************************************ ******************************************* *"Good Luck occurs when Preparedness meets Opportunity"*, quote by Seneca(Roman philosopher and teacher).
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