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Sorry I placed this message in the "adult education" earlier today and have now corrected the mistake - hope to hear all your wonderful advice. To put my question into context - I am teaching ESL to five high levelbusiness students in NL. They are in the medical/ research/ nutrition employment consu...

To answer your first question I would use the present continuous.
Question number two - controversy is not countable so I would avoid using much or many.

I may be wrong but we learn by our mistakes, so it will be nice to read more feedbacks. I love this site it really gets you thinking...

I think the best advice I was given and continue to heed is to conduct a needs analysis - with each new student/class . A simple NA is to find out why the students need English and what level they are at. If you are going to concentrate on speaking activities with such a large class it is probably b...

I would just like to say how successful the telephone role play activity was with my five business students. I taped the activity and asked each student how they feel the tel. conversation could be improved. When it was played back we shared our thoughts and suggestions. My lessons last two hours an...

I have stumbled across this site just recently, and I have found it to be absolutely fantastic. It has given me lots and lots of important and useful information. I also want to thank Lorikeet who answered my question. I have another I would like to ask if any one can help to check something that I ...

I would like to ask if anyone can help me with this baffling question?
to make the sentence negative-

you're from London = you're not from London.

why is this not correct .................. = you aren't from London.

Thanks in advance.

I am teaching 5 students from a recruitment agency in Holland. Their level of conversation in English is very good - although they have an aversion to having grammar lesson this is where Ifeel they are at their weakest. We are now in our second week and am eager to hear if anyone has some suggestion...