Test Yourself | E.L.L. Practice, Nov. 4, 2013 Before Taking the Quiz Watch the clip above from “West Side Story,” a famous 1961 movie made from a Broadway musical. Inspired by Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet,” the story is about a romantic relationship between a white boy and a Puerto Rican girl who come from rival gangs. Quiz Teaching Ideas Play With Lyrics and Music: Music is a wonderful language acquisition tool. Students can be given copies of lyrics and sing them as a class, or in fun competitive “rounds” to see who sings best. (You might also use selections from The Times’s Press Play collection of new popular music.) Learn About Gangs: Explain that the video clip is about gangs,. Next, have students research why young people might join gangs, and compare those reasons for joining with the benefits they listed for being part of the groups they belong to. Use our questions for test preparation or just for fun.
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Daily Grammar Archive - Comprehensive archive of all of our grammar lessons and quizzes This archive contains links to all of our free grammar lessons and quizzes. You can use this archive to study Daily Grammar at your own pace. Lessons 1-90 cover the eight parts of speech, which are verbs, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections. Lessons 91-300 cover the parts of the sentence, such as appositives, predicate nominatives, direct objects, prepositional phrases, clauses, and verbals. Lessons 301-440 cover the mechanics of grammar, which is also known as capitalization and punctuation. Our lessons have been organized by lesson number and by subject. Lessons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - Quiz Lessons 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 - Quiz Lessons 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 - Quiz Lessons 31, 32, 33, 34, 35 - Quiz Lessons 36, 37, 38, 39, 40 - Quiz Lessons 41, 42, 43, 44, 45 - Quiz Lessons 46, 47, 48, 49, 50 - Quiz Lessons 51, 52, 53, 54, 55 - Quiz Lessons 56, 57, 58, 59, 60 - Quiz Lessons 61, 62, 63, 64, 65 - Quiz Lessons 66, 67, 68, 69, 70 - Quiz
Teaching Pronunciation in the Learner-Centered Classroom undefined Teaching Pronunciation in the Learner-Centered Classroom Hsiang-Pao Lin, Chuen-Yn Fan, and Chi-Fen Chen This paper will present specific tools and techniques to help students overcome problems with English pronunciation. 1. How important is pronunciation instruction and how much time should be allotted for it in such a crowded curriculum where general English is taught , for instance, 3 hours per week as at most junior colleges? Recently as English teaching has moved to language functions, and communicative competencies, a new urgency for the teaching of pronunciation has arisen (Celce-Murcia, 1987; Morley, 1994; Gilbert, 1994). This paper will attempt to address the common and serious pronunciation errors that Chinese students produce. 2. Vowel length and final consonants are commonly found difficult for most Chinese students to master in English classes. 2.1 Vowel Length (1)Rubber bands. / i / / I / Students may hear two different vowel lengths of “bet” and “bed”. (Dauer, 1993)
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