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English Basics, Volumes 1-2
Home- English- Mathematics - Reading - Research - Keys - Blog - Links - Contact English Basics Volumes 1-2 Volume 2: Number 35, Commas in a List Number 34, The Semicolon Number 33, Good or Well? Number 32, Titles/Capitalization Number 31, Titles/Capitalization Number 30, Quotation Marks, II Number 29, Quotation Marks Number 28, Its or It's? Number 27, Their, There, or They're? Sites for Teachers Number 26, A or An? Number 25, Did or Done? Number 24, Saw or Seen? Number 23, Verb Tense Review Number 22, The Tense of a Verb, III Number 21, The Tense of a Verb, II Number 20, The Tense of a Verb Number 19, Kinds of Sentenses Number 18, I or Me? Number 17, Predicate of a Sentence Number 16, Subject of a Sentence Number 15, Object of the Preposition Number 14, Prepositions Number 13, Nouns Number 12, Possessive Nouns Number 11, Singular and Plural Nouns Number 10, Review Number 9, Possessive Pronouns Number 8, Adverbs Number 7, Adjectives Number 6, Adjectives Number 5, Review Number 4, Pronouns Number 3, Verbs Number 2, Nouns
Writing Activities
The FreeReading Writing activities are organized into three categories: Introduce, Reintroduce and Build Mastery. The following is a description of the types of activities you will find within each category: Introduce - students are introduced to writing skills through a variety of activities. The activities below address important writing skills and strategies. Click here to see all writing printables, which includes graphic organizers and templates.
Commas | Punctuation Rules
Commas and periods are the most frequently used punctuation marks. Commas customarily indicate a brief pause; they're not as final as periods. Rule 1. Use commas to separate words and word groups in a simple series of three or more items. Example: My estate goes to my husband, son, daughter-in-law, and nephew. Note: When the last comma in a series comes before and or or (after daughter-in-law in the above example), it is known as the Oxford comma. Example: We had coffee, cheese and crackers and grapes. Adding a comma after crackers makes it clear that cheese and crackers represents one dish. We had coffee, cheese and crackers, and grapes. Fiction and nonfiction books generally prefer the Oxford comma. Rule 2. Example: He is a strong, healthy man. Example: We stayed at an expensive summer resort. Another way to determine if a comma is needed is to mentally put and between the two adjectives. Rule 3a. Incorrect: He walked all the way home, he shut the door. There are several simple remedies:
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Movies and famous people lesson plans
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Speaking Activities
On these pages you will find ideas for classsroom activities which involve speaking. (These tips are taken on this site · Find the murderer · Bingo mingle · Short projects to get them talking - Lists · Superlative questions · Summer destinations · Interview the experts · Discussion bingo · Mini-talks · Erase the dialogue · Fun discussion of controversial topics · Motivating speaking activities · Third conditional guessing game · Preposition basketball · Running dictation · Simple picture activity · ARM exercises · Doctors and patients · Nursery rhyme role-play Find the murderer Jacqueline Francois, France Speaking and listening activity Level: Intermediate or advanced Target language: Past continuous · 1. · 2. · 3. · Option (a) Tell the students they are free to invent a story why she is dead, and how, they can choose their own personalities and alibis, and decide who will be the inspector as he or she has to prepare a few questions to ask the suspects. · 4. · 5. · 6. a.
