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Related: LiteracyLiterably Is An Excellent Reading Site — If Used With Caution Reader Erika Chapman tipped me off to an excellent site called Literably. It allows students to read a text and have it automatically assessed for accuracy and words-per-minute speed. Plus, and this is what was most surprising to me, it also provides a fairly accurate indentification of student errors — in other words, what word they said instead of the word in the text. You’re able to provide the student or parent a link to the recording. And it’s free. It’s extraordinarily easy to use.
ESL Listening Comprehension Exercises: Movie clips to practice English SECTION 1: Movie Clips Learning through media (movies, music, etc.) is one of the best ways to learn a new language. The exercises below use movie clips to help you to better understand spoken English. When to use "me", "myself" and "I" - Emma Bryce What’s the difference between ‘me’, myself’, and ‘I’? To understand what makes these pronouns unique, a good first question is: what are pronouns? You might also want to do a crash course in the difference between a subject and an object. Once you understand these basic rules, you’ll be ready to tackle the pronouns ‘me’, ‘myself’, and ‘I’, and understand their roles in a sentence. The first thing to realize is that they each have totally different jobs. ‘Me’ is an object pronoun, ‘I’ is a subject pronoun, and ‘myself’ is a reflexive or intensive/emphatic pronoun.
Mexican President Cancels Meeting with Trump Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto has cancelled a meeting with the new president of the United States, Donald Trump. The meeting had been planned for next week. Pena Nieto acted shortly after Trump posted on Twitter about plans for building a wall between Mexico and the U.S. Trump tweeted early Thursday, “If Mexico is unwilling to pay for the badly needed wall, then it would be better to cancel the upcoming meeting.” Pena Nieto later tweeted, "This morning we informed the White House that I will not attend the work meeting planned for next Tuesday with @POTUS.”
The 50 most important English proverbs The 50 most important English proverbs What are proverbs? Every culture has a collection of wise sayings that offer advice about how to live your life. When to use apostrophes - Laura McClure To learn more about this punctuation mark, start by reading the two Grammar Girl posts here and here. To understand the difference between grammar “rules” and grammar “style” choices, you’ll want to look at a style guide or two. Below are the websites for several major English language style guides: The Economist Style Guide Chicago Manual of Style Oxford University Press Associated Press MLA Want to improve (or test) your knowledge about punctuation?
Practice Listening In order to practice English listening skills, we recommend three things: 1.Good listening materials short, realistic, a little higher than your level Interactive Writing and Grammar Our Mission Empirical’s mission is to create an active learning environment by presenting students with engaging problems to solve and allowing them to construct solutions. In this environment, students take charge of their own education.
Purdue OWL Writing Exercises Recognizing Shifts in Sentences Check the following sentences for confusing shifts in tense. If the tense of each underlined verb expresses the time relationship accurately, write S (satisfactory). If a shift in tense is not appropriate, write U (unsatisfactory) and make necessary changes.
For my students – 30-day-challenge This challenge is to make you use your English more outside the classroom. For 30 days I want you to do at least one thing from the list every day. Fill in the grid you have gotten from me each day with what you have done. Try to do as many different things as possible. Quiz Gerunds, infinitives and to + infinitive - Quiz General knowledge I hate (iron) He recommended (go) to his favourite restaurant I can't (understand) his accent I'd like (go) to France, next year. He's not very good at (remember) names
Effective literacy practice years 5-8 / Planning for my students' needs / Literacy Online / English - ESOL - Literacy Online website - English - ESOL - Literacy Online Sounds and WordsSupport for teaching phonological awareness and spelling in years 1–8. This resource outlines what teachers need to know and what children need to learn at each of the different year bands. Effective Literacy Practice in Years 1 to 4Technical skills for writing: Spelling: this section provides information on the knowledge strategies and awareness students require in year 1–4 as they move towards accurate spelling. This includes knowledge and use of: phonemic awareness, letter sound relationships, orthographic patterns and the morphological structure of written English.