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TOO/ ENOUGH | Engliesedavi. TOO + ADJECTIVE (NOT) ENOUGH + ADJECTIVE (NOT) ENOUGH + NOUNWe use TOO before ADJECTIVES to express that the amount or degree of something is more than desirable, necessary, acceptable or sensible That skirt is too long for you! You work too much. There were too many people outside.ENOUGH is used after ADJECTIVES to express that a quantity is as much as you need to achieve a particular purpose He isn’t tall enough to be a police officer.

He’s intelligent enough to pass the test.ENOUGH is used in front of a NOUN to express that a quantity is as much as you need in order to achieve a particular purpose. I don’t have enough time to finish the test. He doesn’t have enough petrol to arrive home. exercises 1. A) Peter is to become a police officer. B) I’d like to buy a new car and a good house, but I’m just not to do it. D) Kelly is to drive a car. Around the World in English: So-such-too-enough. Pages This Blog Linked From Here The Web Monday, July 18, 2011 So-such-too-enough I prepared this ppt to help my students understand clauses of result with so/such...that, as well as the use of ´too´ and ´enough´ (adverbs of degree). Download: Posted by Areti Gavalaki at 12:38 AM Email ThisBlogThis! Labels: Adverbs of Degree, Clauses of Result, Grammar, Powerpoints No comments: Post a Comment Links to this post Create a Link Newer PostOlder PostHome. 12 Affective listening activities (by Juan Uribe.

It’s a great pleasure to share affective listening activities here at the Teaching Village. I call them affective listening activities because emotions are very present in the movement, suspense, and laughter they produce. These activities also promote an engaging atmosphere that sparks creativity, enhances attention, and activates students’ memory. Last, they present alternatives to include pronunciation, intonation, and imagination through listening in our classes. These guidelines can be used with recorded stories, movies, and even with songs. Ready? Who said that? Right, wrong, or I don’t know– Students listen to a short passage and make a statement that other students have to classify as right, wrong, or not mentioned in the listening. Stop and repeat! Listen and mime! What next? Say it and check it! Guided imagery – Students listen to a passage with their eyes closed for 3-5 minutes.

Guess their words – The teacher plays a passage and students follow it without their books. Classics: “I saw you…” | $trictly 4 my T.E.A.C.H.E.R.Z. Classics: “I saw you…” November 12, 2009 by $4MT So I’ve just decided to start a series of articles on $4MT dedicated to the classics. No, not Homer or Aristotle or none of them cats–I’m referring to classic English teaching activities that every teacher has probably used (or could probably use) and which in my own experience I’ve made use of time and time again. The first one is in this series is that oldie but goodie: “I saw you…” I first came across this activity in the classic 700 Classroom Activities by David Seymour and Maria Popova (MacMillan English). Its purpose is mainly to practice using narrative tenses. In the 700 Classroom Activities version, they provide the instructions and some prompts for the students to use in the activity. In pairs, imagine you saw your partner doing something interesting.

For example, the other day, doing some review of some phrasal verbs with some students at the hospital, I gave them these: Mr. <! I saw you… throwing up in the cafeteria Like this: So or Such? - Level C - Teacher Yuri. Teacher Jane. Daily Education and Technology News for Schools 04/18/2013. English courses with Twin: 5 activities for learning English in London fast! London is an amazing place to live and learn English. But did you know that as well as going to a language school, there are lots of activities for EFL students in London to help improve your English faster, and many of them are free! Here is our top 5 list of things you can do in London to speed up your English learning. 1. Read a newspaper The London Evening Standard is one of the oldest newspapers in the UK, and since October 2009 it has been available for free outside train and tube stations. 2.

There are several groups in London for people who want to meet up and practise speaking English to each other. 3. The Museum of London has worksheets for English students to help them practise using the words they will learn visiting the exhibitions in the museum. 4. A lot of English schools in London have social programmes to help their English students meet new people and practise their English on them while having lots of fun at the same time. 5. Teacher Roj. Teacher Jocelyn.