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Thank you all so much for your ideas. Unfortunately, I'm not a linguist, so some things were a bit beyond me - it's clear to me that I need to learn more. Guess I should be visiting this forum more often! Some people remarked on the oddity of the examples - the 'wrong' ones were produced by my stude...

In all my grammar books, it states simply that 'where' can be used in relative clauses as a relative pronoun to describe a place. But in fact it's not that simple, and I find myself unable to explain why sentences like this are wrong: We often go to visit our friends in Bristol, where is 30 miles aw...

I'm having some problems getting to grips with tag questions. My students have no problem with the form, but I'm not quite clear on how to teach them when to use them. All the stuff I read about them says that we use them to confirm information, but it seems to me that we use them for many more func...

Serendipity and Morgoth, Both your ideas for punishing students are reasonable, and I would like to try them - or indeed anything. But in my classes (13-15 year old Chinese students), asking a student to come to the front of the class, or to go to the back, meets with a "no" and the student simply w...

I find Teaching Tenses, by Rosemary Aitken, really useful, there are just so many ideas for teaching them, especially if your coursebook is not so good or you need something different.

Nic

I am required to teach a book of 900 sentences to my Chinese Junior Grade 2 students (about 14 years old) who really cannot get beyond "my favourite food is...". The book consists of sentences grouped by categories such as 'Making a Telephone Call' and 'Giving Suggestions', with sentences such as "I...