Stillman read familiar sentences aloud, laughing at the jokes.
At a later time and in different lessons, those familiar sentences can be used for other activities, like sentence scrambles (mixing-up words in each sentence and then having students put them back in the correct order) but, for now, the purpose is just to assist students in understanding the videos.
In this respect, "Living with a Dead Language" is a kind of "Eat, Pray, Love" for the "Caecilius in horto est" set — those of us who studied the Cambridge Latin Course, with its familiar first sentence.
They put their arms round each other between shots, chatting in familiar half-sentences.
We're all familiar with sentences like this one: Mr. Smith died yesterday after a long battle with cancer.
This account allows us to capture the flavor of Zhuangzi's discussion which does not employ the familiar Western sentence-based metaphors of laws, rules, principles with norms of obedience, belief or propositional desire.
Readers keep flocking back for his familiar formula: staccato sentences, short chapters, twisting storylines.
Jin's simple sentences, familiar sentiments, and uneventful three- to five-page chapters that typically end with such pulse-suppressing non-cliffhangers as "the day before the Wangs returned, the Wus moved out of the bungalow and set up their residence at 568 March Drive," appear to derive from a highly refined aesthetic of anti-excitability.
We assume that after being familiar with the sentences, the subjects will speak them more naturally.
