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Treating Illness

Rubric: Hot off the press - The Body, Illness, and Injury for ESL. Film Links. Until quite recently it was difficult to find pedagogically sound film material to help students improve their language through watching film, and teachers had to spend many hours creating their own materials.

Film Links

However, with the advent of the Internet there are now a wealth of online resources for both language teachers and their students. With so many resources it’s sometimes difficult for teachers to see the wood for the trees. Here I’m going to recommend the sites and resources that from my own experience I have found most useful and engaging. Lesson plans There are many websites and blogs which provide detailed and well-structured lesson plans designed around film and television clips, short films and viral videos which save the busy teacher a lot of time. The Movie Sounds Page - Your link to the world's BEST movie audio files and sound clips!

Listentoamovie.com. United Kingdom. HISTORY The first Britons (people who live in the United Kingdom) were the Picts, who arrived about 10,000 years ago.

United Kingdom

In the eighth century B.C., the Celts arrived from Europe and pushed the Picts north into Scotland. In A.D. 43, the Romans invaded and ruled for nearly 400 years. They built roads, bathhouses, sewers, and large villas. By the sixth century A.D., German peoples known as Angles, Jutes, and Saxons were moving into Britain. The Angles gave their name to England, and English people became known as Anglo-Saxons. In 1485 the Welsh noble Henry Tudor claimed the English crown and became Henry VII, the first of five Tudor monarchs. The Difference between the United Kingdom, Great Britain and England Explained. Six Methods to teach vocabulary using Mother Tongue.

As a teacher working with a textbook you often need to pre-teach a lot of new vocabulary, because otherwise the text on the following page will be incomprehensible to your students, or you will face a barrage of questions „What does this word mean?

Six Methods to teach vocabulary using Mother Tongue

“ However, when you scourge the literature for methods how to do this effectively and in a relatively short time you will see that there is very little help there. Advert: Even though P. Learning ESL - Musical Scavenger Hunt. Musical Instruments Vocabulary ESL Worksheets. Musical Instruments Picture Dictionary ESL Worksheet A picture dictionary (pictionary) & poster ESL worksheet for kids to study musical instruments vocabulary.

Musical Instruments Vocabulary ESL Worksheets

Look at the pictures and study the musical instruments. Musical Instruments Vocabulary Matching Exercise Worksheet A colourful matching exercise ESL worksheet for kids to study musical instruments vocabulary.Look at the list below and write the names of the musical instruments under the correct pictures. Cooking verbs. Food Quantifiers. To make a salad , wash ___ lettuce thoroughly and pat the leaves dry. Remove three ____ celery, wash, and slice it into small pieces. Boil five ____ asparagus for 1 minute and let cool. Arrange the ____ lettuce on a plate and create a "bed". Slice the tomatoes very thin. Place the ____ tomato on the lettuce in a fan shape. Past simple tense – negative.

I have already published several posts on past simple tense.

Past simple tense – negative

There are several posts on irregular verbs, a post on regular verbs in past tense and now I would like to explain how to make negative sentences in past simple. English vocabulary for music. Shakespeare Online. INGLESE – descrizione fisica – physical appearance. Describing people lessons for ESL teachers: eslflow webguide. Past of be= was,were. Irregular verbs in context 1 - Games to learn English. Teaching irregular verbs is really difficult.

Irregular verbs in context 1 - Games to learn English

I have tried many different methods and I still feel that I have not succeeded. Talking about the future-lesson-plan (1).pdf. Www.teachingenglish.org.uk/sites/teacheng/files/Talking about the future-lesson-plan %281%29.pdf. Simple Past Tense #4, by Dennis Oliver - Free English Grammar Lessons. English Lessons - Grammar. The Past Simple Tense. Spelling Tip Regular verbs in the past simple Add ed to most verbs.

The Past Simple Tense

Ex. talk > talked , employ > employedIf a short verb ends with a consonant-vowel-consonant, double the last letter and then add ed. Ex. stop > stopped, top > topped However, do not double the last letter if the verb ends in w, x or y. Ex. play > played, mix > mixed.In longer words, if the last syllable of the verb ends with a consonant-vowel-consonant and that syllable is stressed, double the last consonant and then add ed. The past simple tense is quite straightforward.

We use the past simple to describe an action that started in the past and ended in the past. I visited a client in London yesterday.She planned the event all by herself. The most common time expressions used for the past simple are: yesterday, a week (month, year) ago, last (month, year, weekend, Monday) night, the day before yesterday, two days (months, years) ago. Forming the Past Simple. Film vocabulary. We love watching films (= movies in American English) – either on TV, on DVD, downloaded onto our PCs or at the cinema.

Film vocabulary

The film vocabulary on this page helps you talk about types of film, the actors – and how to give your opinion about the film. General film vocabulary. Practise your English. Movie Words to improve your vocabulary range. English Lessons: MY BEST HOLIDAY (past simple tense) What Did You Do in the Holidays? - Conversation in English about Holidays. Telling a story in English. A useful skill in English is to be able to tell a story or an anecdote.

Telling a story in English

Anecdotes are short stories about something that happened to you or to someone you know. Past Simple Tense. ‘Queen Elizabeth alongside James Bond’- Lesson Plan. (Image taken from This time I’d like to share with you a lesson plan that I recently created and used with my new group of young adults. In an attempt to familiarize them with the British culture and take a break from the book, I chose this fantastic short video which shows London at its best and catches viewers’ attention with its unique plot! Please download the full lesson plan (plus the student’s worksheet) from the box. widget on the right side of the blog.

The Queen Sequence Opening =TEACHER’S NOTES Target Group: teens, young adults. Food. Questions in present and past simple tense - Games to learn English. Asking questions is one of the most important functions of a language. Making questions in English is quite easy, but students still need to understand the basics. I have tried to put all the basic rules into a mind map. Then I have come up with a story about question formation and several games to practice the grammar. I hope that now the students will be able to form the questions correctly. Display or print out the following mind map for all the students and explain that each question can start with a WH word followed by DO, DOES or DID. Past Simple ESL Grammar Game - Jeopardy Betting Game. IRREGULAR VERBS – INTERACTIVE GAMES. Jump to navigation TeachingEnglish Irregular verbs?

My students would say 'oh nooooo, not again'...My colleague Ale Ale wrote a great blog on how to teach irregular verbs ( And this blog is going to be all about practicing! With a little help of our 'best friend' – the Internet, practicing irregular verbs can be really fun. These are some of the websites I use (none of them need registering, just click and play)! • This is a great interactive game which functions like Jeopardy. How to talk about the past.

7 Acronimi Inglesi Che Devi Davvero Conoscere. 7 Acronimi Inglesi Che Devi Davvero Conoscere. How To Teach Past Simple VS Present Perfect. Grammar. Students > Grammar Copyright © Oxford University Press, 2015. All Rights Reserved. English Language Proficiency Test, Advanced Level. The Official GMAT Website. Graduate Management Admission Test. The Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT (/ˈdʒiːmæt/ (JEE-mat))) is a computer adaptive test (CAT) intended to assess certain analytical, writing, quantitative, verbal, and reading skills in written English for use in admission to a graduate management program, such as an MBA.[4][5] The GMAT does not measure business knowledge or skill, nor does it measure intelligence.[6] According to the test owning company, the Graduate Management Admission Council (GMAC), the GMAT assesses analytical writing and problem-solving abilities, while also addressing data sufficiency, logic, and critical reasoning skills that it believes to be vital to real-world business and management success.[7] GMAT is a registered trademark of the Graduate Management Admission Council.

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TO LEARN ENGLISH all tenses. Grammar Bytes! Grammar Instruction with Attitude. TO LEARN ENGLISH all tenses. Like-love-hate game. Level 410 Grammar Topics. Do and Does. Advanced English lessons. Verbs - Likes. Can, Could and Be Able To Exercise. Irregular Verbs — Exercise 1. Some, Any, A, An? Enjoyenglish.free.fr/english/college/irregular_plurals/ip1.htm.

Level 200 Grammar Topics. Past Simple or Present Perfect. (did or have done) 15 Grammatical Errors that Make You Look Silly. 15 Grammatical Errors that Make You Look Silly. Plurals (Irregular) - 3. IS, ARE, DO OR DOES.

Comparatives/ superlatives exercises. English Prepositions. IS, ARE, DO OR DOES. OWL: Subject/Verb Agreement.