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Hi, I once observed a teacher teaching the alphabet to students and this is how she made it fun. First she gave each student an envelope containing all the letters in the alphabet, cut out, both big and small, and got them to put the letters in order after she introduced the lesson. The teacher chec...

Hi!!! For mandarin speakers, here are a few difficulties to look for: - they have difficulty in distinguishing between 3 major sounds; th, t, f ex. three, tree, free. The "Th" sound is often pronounced by them as "f" - another one that they may have is "l" vs "d" ex. dealer, leader I read on this we...

Thanks for your help with this topic. I'll try and get a copy of the book you mentioned.

Just one question though, do you personally have any ways to explain when to use those tenses to students?

Thanks again, greatly appreciated!!!

Hi Everyone, I have just started teaching english and am having trouble with how to boil these down into simple, yet clear explanations or methods to explain these to students: - Simple tense - Perfect tense - Progressive tense - Perfect-progressive tense Any games would be great too...as a native s...