Good Grammar - Free Lessons in Grammar Skills Online Karaoke with RedKaraoke: 60,000 karaoke songs to sing and record ProjectBritain.com - A resource of British Life and Culture in the UK by Woodlands Junior The Best Music Websites For Learning English Check out my New York Times post for English Language Learners focuses on using music for language development and includes a student interactive, video, and teaching ideas. I use music a lot in my teaching of English Language Learners. I thought people might find it helpful to see which sites I believe to be the best out there to help teach English — Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced — through music. My students have certainly found them helpful. Music is a familiar, fun, and engaging tool to use in learning a second language. This is latest of my “The Best…” series, also known as Websites Of The Year. You might also be interested in an interview I did about using music in the ESL/EFL classroom. Lastly, you might find these other “The Best…” lists useful: Here are what I believe to be the best music websites for learning English: The Music Page from the Language Guide, the best audio/picture dictionary on the Web for English Language Learners. Here’s a new site called Lyrics Mode.
Handouts at Grammar Bytes! Terms of Use You may not alter, sell, or post these materials on a different server. Photocopying for students or linking to materials here does not require my permission. Comma Splices & Fused Sentences Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Additional Item Rules for Fixing Comma Splices and Fused Sentences Back to top ▲ Fragments Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Exercise 7 Additional Items Back to top ▲ Irregular Verbs Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Additional Items Back to top ▲ Parallel Structure Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Exercise 6 Additional Item Rules for Maintaining Parallel Structure Back to top ▲ Misplaced & Dangling Modifiers Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 Additional Item Rules for Fixing Misplaced and Dangling Modifiers Back to top ▲ Apostrophes Commas Exercise 1 Exercise 2 Exercise 3 Exercise 4 Exercise 5 [Not for the faint-hearted!]
Random Idea English: Songs Song lessons Discussions related to songs Exercises based on several songs Songs for teaching various grammar points in TEFL and ESL This list has been compiled from a lot of sources on the web, mainly by googling around. I've also added a list of links to song collections, and other teachers' ideas about how to use songs for ESL, TEFL etc I'll gradually add other grammar functions to this list as time allows. List of songs using conditionals Zero conditional I think this is stretching it a bit, but there's not a hell of a lot of songs about water boiling at 100 degrees centigrade First conditional First and second Second conditional Third conditional Mixed Conditionals Here's hopin' I wish Would Tenses Present continuous Relative Clauses and nominal relative clauses Links Teaching Ideas Celta tipsAnglikTutorTunesEsl BaseMany thingsEsl GamesBeatles phrasal verb crosswordEts Everywhere BlogAna ESL Blog Song Lists Best Song Lists Rolling Stone 500Telegraph 100ForumBest songs ever 100
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:
ESL Song Lessons - tefltunes.com - Songs For Teaching Grammar ESL and EFL teachers looking for inspiration for lesson planning will find this list of songs to teach English grammar we’ve compiled a useful resource. Highlighted are songs available as complete ESL song lesson plans here on tefltunes.com. Songs for teaching present simple Eric Clapton / Wonderful Tonight (lyrics) The Beatles / She Loves You (lyrics) Bette Middler / From A Distance (lyrics) Songs for teaching present continuous Rod Stewart / Sailing (lyrics) Fool’s Garden / Lemon Tree (lyrics) Suzanne Vega / Tom’s Diner (lyrics) Songs for teaching past simple The Beatles / Yellow Submarine (lyrics) Gloria Gaynor / I Will Survive (lyrics) Celine Dion / Because You Loved Me (lyrics) Songs for teaching past continuous John Lennon / Jealous Guy (lyrics) Oasis / Champagne Supernova (lyrics) Aerosmith / Cryin’ (lyrics) Songs for teaching present perfect Songs for teaching present perfect continuous Songs for teaching past perfect Songs for teaching used to Songs for teaching going to future
Movies and famous people lesson plans Page Design Peter Snashall Copyright 1999 ESL Lessons for Teaching Movies/Theatre <span><a target="_blank" href="/search.html">Search</a> | <a target="_blank" href="/PreIntermediateLessonPlans.html">Past, Present,Future</a> | <a target="_blank" href="/describingplaces.html">Lifestyles/cities/houses</a> | <a target="_blank" href="/futuretenselessonplans.html">Plans/Predictions</a> | <a target="_blank" href="/complaintsandrequestslessonplans.html">Complaints/Requests</a> | <a target="_blank" href="/interculturalcommunication.html">Intercultural Comm. Movie worksheets and exercises Famous people/celebrity lessons for ESL students
ESL Song Lyric Exercise Worksheets (mostly cloze) These are some song-lyric worksheets I’ve developed over the years for my English as a second language classes. Most are based on pop and rock classics from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. A few are based on more recent songs. The iTunes icons and Amazon icons link to the particular recording used to make the worksheet. The list is roughly in order of increasing difficulty. For beginning-level students or higher For intermediate-level students or higher For advanced students Using songs in an ESL or EFL classroom The following is a general procedure that I often use together with the above handouts. Introduce vocabulary that will be new to many students. Need an iPod player / iPhone player? Allow me to recommend the iGroove by Klipsch if you need an iPod/iPhone player for use in the classroom.
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.
ESL Song Lessons - tefltunes.com - Songs For Discussion ESL and EFL teachers looking for inspiration to stimulate class discussions will find this list of songs to teach ESL topics we’ve compiled a useful resource. Highlighted are songs available as complete ESL song lesson plans here on tefltunes.com. Business & Money Songs about jobs & work Shania Twain / Not Just A Pretty Face (lyrics) Dolly Parton / Nine To Five (lyrics) The Kinks / Nine To Five (lyrics) Songs about wealth & poverty Travie McCoy / Billionaire (lyrics)Barenaked Ladies / If I Had $1,000,000 (lyrics) Gwen Stefani / Rich Girl (lyrics) Spin Doctors / Two Princes (lyrics) Culture & Customs Songs for Australia Day Midnight Oil / Beds Are Burning (lyrics) Men At Work / Land Down Under (lyrics) Songs for Christmas Bing Crosby / White Christmas (lyrics)Chris Rea / Driving Home For Christmas (lyrics) Songs for Halloween Michael Jackson / Thriller (lyrics) Sting / Moon Over Bourbon Street (lyrics) Songs for St Patrick’s Day U2 / Beautiful Day (lyrics) Johnny Cash / Galway Bay (lyrics) Education B.
10 Songs to Improve and Enjoy English — I love music. Remember one of the reasons you decided to learn English is not only to become more successful in life and understand the language. It is also so that you can enjoy the language and culture. Listening to English songs and reading the lyrics along with the song is not only a great way to improve English but a great way to enjoy it. The following is a list of my top ten favorite Artists and songs for improving your English. If you enjoyed this post don’t forget to like, tweet, and share this article with friends. 10. 9. 8. 7. 6. 5. 4. 3. 2. 1.
Five cool songs to teach adjectives in English | English Lane Using songs to teach English is a great way to engage your students. Depending on the song, you can teach various topics, from tenses to pronouns, from vocabulary to grammar constructions. Let’s focus on teaching adjectives today. 1. Lenka – Everything at Once This song is great for teaching a large number of adjectives, as well as for using the pattern “as…as”. 2. While teaching adjectives with this song you can explain the difference between “you’re” and “your” at the same time. 3. This amazing song is great not only for teaching adjectives, but also for explaining comparison of adjectives to your students. 4. Interesting fact – “I’m” is used over 34 times in this song, “I’m this”, “I’m that”… Your hunch is right; there are a bunch of useful adjectives to describe people. 5. If you wish to teach adjectives, especially the adjectives ending in –ed, this is the perfect song to use. How do you teach with music? Like this: Like Loading...