By the way, Christine, you might contact Bob Yates off-List. He alerted me and the List to the presence of PVs in a number of languages and clearly knows more about them than I do. Ron. ----- Original Message ----- From: Christine Reintjes To: [log in to unmask] Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 5:42 PM Subject: Re: Reasons for teaching PVs in the ESL context. Thanks Ron, I taught ESL from 2000-2005 and I only had one francophone for a very short time. My French connection is that I spent my junior year of college in Lyon through the University of North Carolina. Now I teach all subjects to at risk youth at a wilderness camp. We have so many phrasal verbs in English. It just strikes me as odd that they are not found in other languages. Can you give me a sentence with the Canadian French use of venir with back? -- Christine Reintjes Martin [log in to unmask] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 21:41:16 -0700 From: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Reasons for teaching PVs in the ESL context. To: [log in to unmask] Hi Christine, I am not aware of any. No, French does not have any. One does, however, find some forms of French in Canada, particularly New Brunswick, which combine a French verb such as 'venir' with 'back'. Do you teach ESL to francophones? If so where? And if so, how do you handle faux amis? Bye, Ron. . ----- Original Message ----- From: Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/