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- Sun Aug 29, 2010 3:23 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: (?) I read always
- Replies: 5
- Views: 4041
I always read when I eat. (My husband finds that funny, as he once left a container for corn plasters on the table, and noted that my son and I had read it several times without even thinking.) And no, "I read always" doesn't sound good to me, although I could probably think of a rare occurence wher...
- Sat Aug 28, 2010 2:02 am
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Fun Adult Homework for a Beginner
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3565
There are lots of exercises and websites online written for ESL students. Maybe you can find some of those and give her some links. I have some listed on my website http://fog.ccsf.edu/~lfried under "Links" on the left side of the page.
- Tue Aug 17, 2010 6:43 pm
- Forum: Activities and Games
- Topic: Listening Activities Online?
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4374
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:23 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Grammar question: using "can" or "could"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 72510
- Sat Jul 24, 2010 3:22 am
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Conducting non-standard course- need help!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4733
- Fri Jul 23, 2010 6:03 am
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: Conducting non-standard course- need help!
- Replies: 6
- Views: 4733
- Wed Jul 21, 2010 10:53 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Grammar question: using "can" or "could"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 72510
Hi Lorikeet. You are certainly quite the veteran on this forum, although I see you now have some help monitoring the kids to keep them from flaming each other. Larry Oh! It just dawned on me that there's a big list of "moderators" who aren't! Dave was testing something and put them all up there, bu...
- Tue Jul 20, 2010 5:13 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Grammar question: using "can" or "could"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 72510
Nice to see you around, Larry. I read "The English Verb" a couple years ago, after hearing about it here. It made a lot of sense to me, and I decided to use the ideas to teach my high level students "another way" to look at the English verb. It went over some of their heads, but a lot of them found ...
- Sat Jul 17, 2010 4:47 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Grammar question: His sister and "he / him" live i
- Replies: 4
- Views: 10797
Re: Grammar question: His sister and "he / him" li
Hello, I'm not sure if I should use "he / him" in the following sentence. 1. His sister and "he / him" live in Beijing. I know that a good way to check for if the subjective pronoun is correct is by eliminating the begining subject and saying only the second subjective pronoun. You would say "He li...
- Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:25 am
- Forum: Pronunciation
- Topic: 'Irreparable' - whose pronunciation scheme do you prefer?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 8811
- Fri Jul 16, 2010 5:19 am
- Forum: Adult Education
- Topic: How to deal with an aggressive lower ESL level student
- Replies: 5
- Views: 5323
I have had similar kinds of students. Once a substitute asked me how I did it, as the student had somewhat hijacked the class. It of course depends on what the student is doing. My students included some very educated Russians who wanted to show how much grammar they understood by asking involved qu...
- Thu Jul 15, 2010 8:26 am
- Forum: TOEFL
- Topic: Prescription Medicines
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3992
- Tue Jul 13, 2010 6:24 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Teaching Consonant Clusters
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8223
- Fri Jul 09, 2010 5:18 am
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Grammar question: using "can" or "could"
- Replies: 20
- Views: 72510
- Tue Jul 06, 2010 5:02 pm
- Forum: Applied Linguistics
- Topic: Teaching Consonant Clusters
- Replies: 6
- Views: 8223
The only problem with saying "pin" and putting an "s" in front for "spin" is that the normal initial "p" in English is aspirated, with a puff of air, and it isn't aspirated after an "s". If the student is saying "pin" properly, you don't want them to add a puff of air after the "p" in spin. The most...