english grammar lessons Conditionals Definite & Indefinite Articles Other English grammar lessons can be boring. Teaching Tips Start off by trying to elicit the grammar point from the students. A Note about my Grammar Lessons My English grammar lessons use the principle of eliciting the grammar from the students and on doing free practice. I hope you find my English grammar lessons useful and fun J Free Downloadable English Grammar Lessons Reporting Verbs - 1 Zero Conditional First Conditional Second Conditional Order of Adjectives Past Perfect Indirect Questions Present Simple or Present Continuous Third Conditional Mixed Conditionals Future Perfect return to Home Page from English Grammar Lessons
12 English Idioms with the word “Head” that you can use everyday. It’s time for some more idioms and I’d like to dedicate this post to some common expressions we use with the word “head”. They are, in fact, idioms that are used very often in both spoken and written English. I. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. There are plenty more expressions with ‘head’. I hope you enjoyed this post. Ciao for now Shanthi Like this: Like Loading...
The End of Forgetting — Anglais Four years ago, Stacy Snyder, then a 25-year-old teacher in training at Conestoga Valley High School in Lancaster, Pa., posted a photo on her MySpace page that showed her at a party wearing a pirate hat and drinking from a plastic cup, with the caption "Drunken Pirate." After discovering the page, her supervisor at the high school told her the photo was "unprofessional," and the dean of Millersville University School of Education, where Snyder was enrolled, said she was promoting drinking in virtual view of her under-age students. As a result, days before Snyder's scheduled graduation, the university denied her a teaching degree. Snyder sued, arguing that the university had violated her First Amendment rights by penalizing her for her (perfectly legal) after-hours behavior. But in 2008, a federal district judge rejected the claim, saying that because Snyder was a public employee whose photo didn't relate to matters of public concern, her "Drunken Pirate" post was not protected speech.
Caractérisation de Nike Time4English A German woman in Darmstadt found a wallet containing €1000. She refused to give it back to the owner unless she was given a €120 reward. She got the reward, but the pensioner who owned it tipped off the police and the woman was arrested. Police said: "It was a bit stupid. She could have just kept the wallet." tipped off - told Volunteers were cleaning rubbish from the top of Britain's highest mountain when they found a piano. puzzled = don't know how as to = about instrument = piano ended up at = got to German police are stunned by the theft of an entire roller-coaster. stunned - very surprised Big Dipper - name of a kind of roller-coaster Six-year-old Maximiliano Arellano, from Mexico City, has been studying medicine on his own at home. Maximiliano Arellano = boy's name on his own = alone / by himself prodigy = child genius / child who is many years ahead of other children his/her age enable = allow
Movie Segments to Assess Grammar Goals: Unbreakable: Present Perfect (with Just) This movie is not one I would strongly recommend, but it has good moments. This scene is one of them. David's, Bruce Willis's character, touching passers-by make him see what they have just done minutes before that, which is perfect for the students to practice the present perfect tense, using - just - in their sentences. In this exercise they are to write down whole sentences, which makes it more challenging than the other ones I have published on this grammar goal. I hope you like it. A. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. B. C. ( ) The lady in red ( ) The man in yellow ( ) The man in green ( ) The man in orange D. E. Answer key: D. The man in yellow has just broken a bottle on a passer-by. The man in green has taken advantage of a drunk woman. The man in orange has just broken into a house and murdered someone there.
Let’s talk fitness – the vocabulary of health and fitness As many of you will know, I went to Rome last week for 5 days. During those five days we must have walked for miles and miles (well, it certainly seemed like it). I wish I’d brought my pedometer so that I could have calculated the number of steps I’d taken and the calories burned. Now that I’m back and autumn beckons I have decided that I would like to work on and improve my fitness levels. As an adult I got into fitness through aerobics in my early 20s and ever since then, I have been fairly consistent with getting and staying fit. Nearly thirty years on (I can’t believe I just wrote that!) I remember, a few years ago, I had a personal trainer who told me that if I wanted to lose weight I would have to halve my food portions. I really thought that that would be impossible to achieve as I was worried I might get hungry. However, he was right. My job entails a lot of sitting around. We have a cross-trainer in our garage and I also enjoy running (actually it’s more jogging!). Ciao for now
New means of communication (séries générales LV2) Good news for worried parents: all those hours their teenagers spend socializing on the Internet are not a bad thing, according to a new study by the MacArthur Foundation. “It may look as though kids are wasting a lot of time hanging out with new media, whether it’s on MySpace or sending instant messages,” said Mizuko Ito, lead researcher on the study, “Living and Learning With New Media.” “But their participation is giving them the technological skills and literacy they need to succeed in the contemporary world. The study, conducted from 2005 to last summer, describes new-media usage but does not measure its effects. “It certainly rings true that new media are inextricably woven into young people’s lives,” said Vicki Rideout, vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation and director of its program for the study of media and health. Ms. “Those concerns about predators and stranger danger have been overblown,” she said.
Best Short Stories for Middle Schoolers, As Chosen by Teachers It can be a challenge to get middle schoolers interested in reading. The thought of tackling a thick novel can be overwhelming, especially toward the end of the school year when attention spans and patience for reading are often running short. Short stories are always a great choice. In addition to requiring less of a time commitment, they are an easy way to expose your students to new authors and genres. If you’re searching for more short stories, check out these recommendations compiled by the Seattle Public Library, the ShortStoryGuide, and Barnes and Noble. Plus, we love these anthologies: A Thousand Beginnings and Endings compiled by We Need Diverse Books’s Ellen Oh and Elsie Chapman, and Meet Cute: Some People are Destined to Meet by Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton, Nicola Yoon, Ibi Zoboi and others. Don’t miss our list of favorite middle school poems, too.
Adele's ESL Corner - Your free online English language website September is for City Breaks – let’s explore some vocabulary | English with a Twist I must, first of all, apologise for my silence last week. I had a particularly heavy teaching schedule that left me with hardly any time to think let alone write a post. Unlike many people, August is always a very busy teaching month for me. I always get fully booked with my full immersion intensive courses as many dedicated people use their holiday to attend an English Language course in London. When September arrives and most people are preparing themselves for the return to work and the start of a new academic year, I go on holiday. This year my husband and I have booked to go on a 5-day city break to Rome. We arrive in Rome at 10:20am. I’m really looking forward to showing my husband around city. I don’t know about you, but what I love most about city breaks is walking around the city, taking in the sights, watching the people go about their business, taking lots of photos and sampling the local food. We’ve downloaded a map of Rome. We plan to visit the main tourist attractions.
Les réseaux sociaux (compréhension de l'écrit) | ABC Bac Compréhension de l’écrit 10 pts Doc. 1Teenagers, Internet socializing not a bad thing Doc. 2Generation gap 1 Doc. 1. line 1: “Good news for worried parents”. 2 Doc. 1. 3 Doc. 1. lines 1-10: What are the benefits of using social networks? 4 Doc. 1. from line 19 to the end: What is generally the parents’ first opinion about social networks? 5 Doc. 1. 6 Doc. 2. a. b. 7 Doc. 2. a. b. 8 Doc. 2. 9 Doc. 1 et 2. Les questions 10, 11 et 12 ne seront traitées que par les candidats de la série L. 10 Doc. 2. 11 Doc. 2. 12 Doc. 1 et 2. lines 13-14, doc. 1: “new media are inextricably woven into young people’s lives”.