Guess and Tell
Posted on May 21, 2012 |
Have one student in the class to be a blind one by closing his/her eyes with anything you can use. We have to describe various objects in the classroom to the student and he/she has to guess what we were describing.
It forced us to use vocabulary words rather than gestures to describe objects and was challenging to both the blind student and the rest of the class.
Proverb: Adam’s Ale Is the Best Brew
Posted on May 20, 2012 |
ADAM’S ALE IS THE BEST BREW
Don’t drink wine, beer or spirits. Water is the best drink. Adam’s ale is an old term for water.
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Links on pronunciation
Posted on May 20, 2012 |
2. Internet TESL Journal’s list of Pronunciation links
4. Pronunciation Web Resources
5. Antimoon.com’s “English pronunciation and the phonetic alphabet— an introduction”
Proverb: All’s fish that comes to the net
Posted on May 19, 2012 |
ALL’S FISH THAT COMES TO THE NET
The fisherman makes use of all the fish he catches, no matter whether they are big or small. Thus, we must follow the example of the fisherman and make full use of all the opportunities that come our way.
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Genders of Noun
Posted on May 19, 2012 |
A boy or a man is a male. A girl or a woman is a female. Gender tells whether a person or an animal is a male or a female. In other words, gender tells the sex of a person, animal, etc. Gender also tells about things which have no sex. Read more
Alphabet Riddle
Posted on May 18, 2012 |
Q: What letter of the alphabet is an insect?
A: B. (bee)
Q: What letter is a part of the head?
A: I. (eye)
Q: What letter is a drink?
A: T. (tea)
Q: What letter is a body of water?
A: C. (sea)
Q: What letter is a pronoun like “you”?
A: The letter ” I ”
Accustomed to & Afraid of
Posted on May 18, 2012 |
COMMON MISTAKES IN ENGLISH
Misused Preposition Forms
Errors are frequently found because of using an incorrect preposition following definite words. The words giving trouble most often are as follows:
Learning English Conjugations
Posted on May 18, 2012 |
Learning English conjugations is simple. Just remember the inflection process and there you go. It works with nouns, adverbs, adjectives, and verbs.
There are eight English inflection morphemes attached to those syntactic categories. Nouns will take the plural and genitive. Verbs are inflected when they appear in present for third person singular, progressive, past, and past participle forms. And adjectives and adverbs are conjugated when they are in the comparative and superlative forms.
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Links on listening
Posted on May 17, 2012 |
Sites on teaching listening:
2. The English Listening Lounge
3. Randall’s Cyber Listening Lab
4. Listening for English Language Learners
Learning English Tenses
Posted on May 16, 2012 |
Learning English tenses might be the most challenging aspect for foreign learners due to different structures between their native language and English. Unlike English which shows time of their utterances and sentences with tenses, some languages do it by adding syntactic categories.
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