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thanks for the help guys. the idea by you, moonchild, sounds like a good one. it probably is very important to subject them to lots of different forms of written english and compare it to spoken. thanks for your time. jane, this sounds like something i could do as an exercise for them to test what t...

I have been using news articles on www.bbc.com and some articles from www.articlecube.com. they are useful for comprehension and summarising respectively. they are also a good way to get discussions going although i have found that with my students the problems seem to lie more in the writing than t...

I was wondering if anyone has had to deal with this problem. the sentences are grammatically fine but they are just too long. I think I need to go back to the beginning, to the point before the sentence is written, and try to help the student formulate the ideas into easier to read sentences. but th...

I am stuck as to how best to get this level of students to stop making basic errors. Puctuation, sentence structure and simple agreement seem to be problems that run throughout the students. I am teaching one-on-one lessons to the weakest students and i think their main problem is that they are alwa...

I am currently helping out at an international college in ghana. at the moment i am meeting 8 students the majority of which are working towards their IGCSE (they are 16). i am kind of stuck as to how to go about my lessons with them. i see them all individually and at the moment, we chat, discuss a...

i have finally found what i have been searching for for a long time. a website that provides articles, quite simple, but surprisingly hard (i have found) to find. i want articles for summary writing practice, comprehension, vocabulary and general reading for use with my students. the content may be ...