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Ah, Pablo Neruda... :) It's the first time I read a poem of his translated into English. Well, interpreting poems is something very subjective, but I can try to help you by telling you my thoughts while reading this poem. It seems to me that the lyrical self is going through a dèja vu, 'cause he's w...

Hello there. Wow, this kind of situation in class is really frustrating. Especially when you have planned something thinking it would work like a charm and they don't even seem to listen to you. It drives me mad! But one thing I have learned is that there's no good plan until you have tested it on y...

Hi, everybody Just wanted to share an activity I did today, whose results were better than I’d predicted... I suddenly realized something: our students learn English in classroom and acquire vocabulary by associating the words to their respective translations or pictures in the course book. On...

Hello, "heyiamhere"! Look, Im not a native speaker either, but I have a point... Well, not really for your first sentence. I strongly believe "closely together" and "close together" make perfect sense in this construction, but there is really a very subtle difference that I can feel but can't quite ...

Wow, it's been a while... I'm really glad to be back and find the very same people I talked to in the past. Hello again Larry, lolwhites, revel! I don't think you remember me. Hmm... I decided to post something here because I've been thinking a lot about this subject lately - much more than before. ...

It`s just so great to read from you :) Thanks Roger, Larry and Duncan. Well, I work at an english school that deals with the communicative approach. To tell you the truth, I don`t have much time, at least not so much as I wanted to have. But there`s always some time left to do some extra activity, s...

Wow, I shouldn't have posted this message here at Adult Education... Actually, I'd thought I was at Applied Linguistics. Lol, I'm dumb...

Anyway, I would really enjoy any reply

Hi everybody I've begun to teach a class of beginners recently. They're all between the ages of eleven and thirteen, and they'd never been to an english school before. However, all of them know a little of english, since they've been having english classes at elementary school. So, today, that was t...

Hi, Norm, Larry and everybody :) I've been working a lot these days, and, unfortunately, couldn't come back till now. But here am I and... wow! I'm amazed by your explanations... That's just what I need: get rid of some simple concepts that deceive us sometimes. I really wasn't aware of this confusi...

Hello There! I really didn't expect all these replies here, I haven't been online for a while. I'm really glad to be here again. I really appreciate your help, Norm. All the answers here have been really useful to my own understanding. It's nice to hear from people with various points of view. Based...

Hello there! I'm teaching Present Perfect to my intermediate students, and we started a discussion about the differences between this tense and the Simple Past tense. It's been quite tough for me to clear their doubts, and I believe they still don't get the point. Also, I think the book is not helpi...

Good evening! I found this topic down there at the end of the list... And decided to post something here. I've been contacted by a new english school in a small town about an hour away from mine. The owner is a german woman who's been working with this approach for years. She assures it really works...

Hello there, José! I've thought about this subject many times as well... My teacher at college, who's a native speaker, told me once there are some particular situations in which you can use state verbs in a progressive form. For example... let's imagine we're watching a movie and I turn to you and ...

Wow, a very interesting thread!! As far as I know, Larry, the ones who change grammar rules are not teachers or textbook writers. Well, maybe so... Maybe these people may come to change some rules, but not because they're grammar experts, but because they're speakers of a language. Every speaker has...

Celeste and Roger! Sorry I didn't get to say thank you before... Wow, it's been almost one month away :P I missed it here. I agree with you, Roger: Grammar can't be neglected. I teach at an english school that uses this method of communicative teaching. It's really nice, but the best thing is that t...