So, you are experimenting with new vocabulary and you realize that you have used the word got 10 times in one paragraph! To fix the problem, you instinctively highlight the word and copy/paste it into Thesaurus.com. The result is a list of many different meanings for “got”.
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A young person in middle school asked me to think of ways to study when you don’t have study partners or a person to help you. So, I’ve developed this list.
S = Skim your material before you begin studying so you will have an idea of what you will need [...]
Do your students have trouble differentiating /w/ and /v/? There’s an activity for that! As I was planning for a class earlier, I used this article on Verizon Wireless’ lawsuit and it turned out to be the perfect activity for a student who was experiencing problems with the difference [...]
Here’s an activity that I use in speaking or conversation classes. I thought they might be helpful in generating some ideas.
Here are some practical uses for this list:
Have students prepare a mini-speech for one minute and try to speak non-stop for 2 minutes. Gradually throughout the term, increase the time [...]Test day was approaching, and I still had many lists to learn, characteristics to distinguish, and questions to answer, so I decided to rely on the oldest memory trick in the book…mnemonics. The strategy worked well to some extent, but there were adjustments I needed to get the most out [...]
This article, Brainstorming Reloaded, from PsyBlog tells why brainstorming isn’t as effective as it was once thought to be and gives tips on better lesson and training delivery.
The sky is red in the morning if you notice any of the following taking place during your group brainstorming sessions:
Social loafing: [...]
Lesson:
The noun that appears after a pair of is not considered during subject/verb agreement. Here’s why: your verb agrees with the singular word pair. Even though pair actually means two, the word pair is singular (as signaled by the article a).
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A pair of glasses is on the counter. A pair [...]As many of my readers do, I like to use news articles in my classes to bring in a bit of the “real” world. I search Google and Yahoo News, and on a typical day, I find that the news headlines and subsequent articles do not always cover the–how should [...]
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All and some refer to more than one thing. The puzzle is that the noun may be count or non-count. If the noun is count, the noun after some or all is plural. If the noun is non-count, the noun after some or all is singular.
Your verb should agree with [...]
ESL students who, on first impression, seem to have command of basic, high-frequency phrases like “Hi. How are you? Where are you from?” may not be as familiar with how to express numbers when they are approached in contexts of money, time, and math (which occurs just as regularly).
Each day, [...]
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Here’s a link to Yahoo Education’s website that highlights resources for soon-to-be SAT-takers in the near future.
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[...] Click on this link for a fun site where teachers and parents can find so many crafts, projects, history lessons, and quizzes that help children develop and understanding of the 4th of July while celebrating it in a meaningful way.
Share[...] Superlatives and comparatives seems to be a nice fit with lessons where you are demonstrating comparing and contrasting.
Adding the crucial ingredient of these grammar structures to your compare and contrast lessons will expand your students’ sentence structure knowledge, which they can later use as they form ideas for their explanations, [...]
As defined, come means to move closer to the speaker; go, for the most part, means movement in another direction. The word go gets confused with come because both involve movement, but the difference between come and go have more to do with the perspective of the person using the [...]
Here are two activities that will help you practice articles…
A, An, or The (fill in the blank) The or Nothing (fill in the blank) Share ![[Digg]](http://allenglish.org/blog/wp-content/plugins/bookmarkify/digg.png)
Share | Rate | ArchiveJust when you thought it was difficult for Americans to communicate with English language learners, NPR recently did a report, which you can read here, about the collection of regional phrases in English, called the Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE). This collection of regional spoken English is turning [...]
