Organising writing. Why You Should Learn Roots. Have you ever noticed how, in the English language, some small words sometimes appear in a lot of bigger words?
Take the word “friend,” for example. If you notice someone who is acting friendly toward you, you might want to start a friendship, so you befriend her. Latin Abbreviations Every Professional Should Know. There’s a little bit of Latin in almost every European language.
In Romance languages like French, Spanish, Italian, and Romanian, the presence of Latin is unsurprising because those languages developed from it. Germanic and Slavonic languages adopted words and even some grammar from the old lingua franca. In English, there are a few Latin terms that are so common we almost always abbreviate them, sometimes without even knowing what they mean. How to use songs in the English language classroom. What makes for a successful song-based lesson?
Adam Simpson, second-time winner of the British Council’s Teaching English blog award for his post on conditionals (written with Paul Mains), explains. One of the big problems we all face, whether teaching English to children or adults, is maintaining learners’ interest throughout our lessons. Consequently, we often have to be very creative in the techniques we use. What makes music such a great teaching tool is its universal appeal, connecting all cultures and languages. This makes it one of the best and most motivating resources in the classroom, regardless of the age or background of the learner.
English Grammar. Featured blog of the month for January 2016. Literature is GREAT - Part 1. Poets, playwrights and novelists, Britain is famous for its literary talent.
From Chaucer’s 'Tales' to J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter… so much of the world’s greatest literature has come from Britain. And the greatest British writer of them all is the Bard himself: William Shakespeare, and this is Shakespeare’s Globe in London, on the banks of the River Thames. William Shakespeare wrote some of the most famous plays in the world. Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet and Macbeth are among his best-known works. Shakespeare’s Globe opened to the public fifteen years ago. ESL Song Lessons - tefltunes.com - Songs For Teaching Grammar. ESL and EFL teachers looking for inspiration for lesson planning will find this list of songs to teach English grammar we’ve compiled a useful resource. Highlighted are songs available as complete ESL song lesson plans here on tefltunes.com. Songs for teaching present simple. Punctuation Tips. Double Quotation Marks Double quotation marks do four jobs: 1. they surround words spoken or written by someone else 2. they surround words used as terms (this purpose can also be served by italics) 3. they surround words used sarcastically 4. they surround titles of chapters or articles (in contrast, titles of books and periodicals are underlined or italicized).
Unit 7: Responding to writing. ‘Real world’ writing activities. ‘We don’t just ‘read’ and ‘write’: we always read and write something for a particular purpose, in a particular way, in a particular time and place.’
David Barton Outside the classroom, any writing our learners do will have a specific purpose and context. Inside the classroom, by definition, any writing is likely to be more simply for the sake of developing skills and language, and displaying those skills. However, the difference between ‘real’ writing and display writing isn’t a binary distinction; it’s more of a continuum. Five Steps to Writing a Good For and Against Essay.
An essay is a formal piece of writing which describes, analyses or discusses a particular issue.
The most common types are: Opinion essays. They present the writer’s personal opinion of the topic, supported with examples and reasons.For and against essays. They present both sides of an issue in a balanced way. In the concluding paragraph you can say why you find one side more convincing than the other. BBC Learning English - Course: intermediate / Unit 1 / Grammar Reference. 16 ways to improve your whiteboard work. I had my first lesson observation at the British Council Bangkok the other day. I still have a job, woohoo! I got some very surprising feedback from my line manager: ‘your board work was a real strength’. Boardwork? Strength?! I did NOT expect that! Firstly, I now teach in classrooms with interactive whiteboards.
Not only that, my students have become obsessed with taking pictures of the whiteboard on their phones. Here’s a few ideas to help you improve your board work, plus some other tips for ways you can use the board. 1.Make use of your aims Your lesson aims are probably taking up space somewhere, so use them. 2. Actually, don’t just think abo ut it – plan it. 3.
Following on from the tip above… I often spend time at the board, so it seems a logical place to stick the plan. How to Use “Such As” and “As Well As” in Professional Writing. If we had to describe professional writing using a single word, that word would have to be “clear.”
Professional writing isn’t called professional because all other types of writing are unprofessional. It gets the name because it follows standards and rules that are important in certain professions, and there’s at least one standard that’s common to all of them—clarity of meaning. Academic Writing Module. Este test determinará qué tan bueno es tu Ingles avanzado. Cambridge First & Advanced in 2015.
16 Oct If you prepare students for FCE or CAE, then this might be useful for you.
Cambridge English: First (FCE) and Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) have recently undergone significant revisions to their structure and organisation. This has been on the cards for some time and indeed I blogged about it back in May. Recently however, I gave an online workshop for International House, which was available to IH staff around the world, and which outlined the changes being made to these exams and discussed some of the implications of those changes. The workshop was videoed and has been posted on you tube – you can watch it there or here, but it is about an hour long – so make sure you have a cup of tea or a glass of wine (depending on your preference or the time of day) before you press play!
Unfortunately, I suffered from the odd wifi glitch during the presentation, so service is interrupted every now and again. What does your accent say about you? Are some accents better than others?
English language teacher and author Richard Cauldwell Opens in a new tab or window. examines the prejudices against various English accents and the effect they can have on one's sense of self-worth. He will be presenting on this topic at a British Council seminar Opens in a new tab or window., live-streamed from London on 10 June. What is an accent? An accent is a colouring or flavouring to your speech which influences the sounds and shapes of words and sentences.
These flavours attach to vowels (in Birmingham you might hear ‘lake’ sounding close to ‘like’ as in ‘Where’s the like?’)