English news and easy articles for students of English Bottom Line Ask anyone about engaging and effective Reading Comprehension activities and you will get a myriad of replies and suggestions. I know, because I asked! I asked educators and non-educators to send me either activities they used or remember being used when they were students. The good news, there are countless recommendations! The bad news, there are countless recommendations. Teaching has dramatically changed during my tenure. Academic Research For those of us who want evidence from academic research of proven Reading Comprehension activities, there is no end to exploring this path. Activating Prior KnowledgeAsking Questions While ReadingVisualizingMonitor/Check For UnderstandingDrawing InferencesSummarize/Retell (Improving Reading Comprehension in Kindergarten Through Third Grade ) If the Reading Comprehension activity has one or more of these strategies, then the likelihood of success is high. Transactional Strategy Instruction Listening to the selection Use visual supports
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How to Use Easy Short Stories to Improve Your English You can use your English to learn about other people’s lives, study history, experience new cultures and explore new places. And you can do this without traveling anywhere! All you need is a great story. You probably already know that, in order to improve your English, you need to get some real-life practice. Even better are easy English short stories. Short stories will expose you to the English vocabulary you’re learning in a more natural format, giving you a chance to see the words in context and remember them forever. Read on to learn what short stories are and how they can help you with your English learning. So, What’s a Short Story? A short story is a short piece of fiction (made-up story). Short stories began to be published in magazines in the 19th century. Many American writers such as Edgar Allan Poe and Washington Irving wrote short pieces that are now considered to be classics. The Types of English Short Stories There are many different types of short stories. Try this. Review
Cohesion Cohesion is one of the two qualities that give a written or spoken text unity and purpose, the other being coherence. It refers to the use of linguistic devices to join sentences together, including conjunctions, reference words, substitution and lexical devices such as repetition of words, collocations and lexical groups. ExampleThe second sentence above has cohesive devices such as conjunctions (and, such as, including), articles (the), references (it), and collocations (join _____ together, lexical groups). In the classroomCohesion is an extensive area and can be approached at a discrete item level, e.g. practising article use or differing synonyms. Further links: tubequizard Cinematic: "Safe Haven" World of Warcraft Grammar for listenersFilm & animation14 items Simple tenses. Watch this World of Warcraft cinematic and practice catching expressions in present simple, past simple and future simple. Black Mirror: Season 5 | Official Trailer | Netflix Netflix Grammar for listenersFilm & animation12 items High frequency expressions with verbs. Did Toff BAN HERSELF from Deliveroo? Grammar for listenersEntertainment24 items Questions. I made a robot that serves me soup Simone Giertz Pronunciation for listenersPeople & society21 items Disappearing sounds Will this robot feed soup to Simone? The Science of Awkwardness Vsauce Vocabulary in contextPeople & society18 items Academic Word List (sublist 1) Preparing for IELTS? Emma Watson's Harry Potter Outtake Jimmy Kimmel Live Vocabulary in contextEntertainment20 items Frequently used verbs. The art of asking | Amanda Palmer Grammar for listenersTalks & interviews17 items 'Would' for past repeated actions and habits. Questions.
Getting started with EndNote | EndNote support | Library | University of Leeds EndNote is a tool that helps you to collect and store all the references you have found from different sources. You can use EndNote to insert and format in-text citations and bibliographies within Microsoft Word documents. This guide will help you to create and manage an EndNote library, export and enter references, and use EndNote to insert citations and a bibliography. Download a print version of a guide to using EndNote (PDF) EndNote is available on all University cluster PCs and accessible off-campus via Desktop Anywhere. You can also install EndNote on your personal computer or laptop by clicking on EndNote in the IT Shop. Watch our training videos Take a look at our training videos for EndNote. Top tips for using EndNote Here are our top tips for using EndNote: Create one library to keep all your references in the same place. Further help If you would like a more comprehensive guide, download the full EndNote X9 user manual (PDF).
Teaching English online – opportunities and pitfalls Sylvia Guinan, online English teacher, website editor and winner of the British Council TeachingEnglish blog award, walks us through the opportunities and pitfalls of teaching online in one of our top five articles of all time, illustrated by artist Jamie Johnson. There are many different things to consider when it comes to online teaching. The good news is that online teaching opens up new levels of creativity and opportunity for you as a teacher. In a way, it drives you to surpass yourself and focus more on best practice as well as innovation. As for students, they deserve to be taught with 21st-century technology. Technology basics Many freelance teachers teach through Skype. Resources and content creation As for resources, the following sites have wonderful materials if you don’t feel like re-inventing the wheel. Beyond that, you may wish to supplement your basic course offerings, specialise for specific purposes or simply follow your own instincts and inspiration. Building rapport
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Ideas for adapting group lessons to working on Zoom As has happened in much of Europe, Poland has now closed schools, universities and other places where people might gather in the hope of reducing the spread of coronavirus. Our school had its last normal lessons on Wednesday, with Thursday and Friday dedicated to training our teachers how to use Zoom. We start teaching on Monday 16th, so my total experience with Zoom so far has been in the training process. Useful links International House World arranged a live session run by Shaun Wilden on Tuesday 10th, in which he introduced us to Zoom. I’d also recommend Ceri Jones’s posts on the Cambridge University Press blog: Other useful posts: Zoom’s updates on which countries they’ve lifted the 40-minute free limit for.Graham Stanley on keeping learners’ attention when remote teaching.Advice to those about to teach online (mainly aimed at university lecturers). There’s a very active hashtag on Twitter called #coronavirusteaching, which you can view without having a Twitter account. Playing audio
TOEFL Reading Strategies - Better TOEFL Scores Blog Several TOEFL reading strategies will help you to use your existing English to get the highest possible score on the reading section of the TOEFL iBT. TOEFL Reading Strategies: Are you ready to take the TOEFL iBT? Unfortunately, many students take the TOEFL iBT before they are ready. If you can read 300 words per minute with 60%-80% comprehension, you are ready to take the test. If you do not know what you current reading speed is, go to Go to the 300 words per minute practice test. Spend one minute reading the passage. Without looking at the passage, take the five question multiple choice quiz. If you score 3/5 or higher on the quiz, then you are ready to take the TOEFL iBT. TOEFL Reading Strategies: Crap! If you scored below 3/5 on the 300 words per minute practice test, then you need to do what 1000’s of other students have done: Prepare, prepare, and prepare. When choosing a course plan, keep in mind the following: