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If the present perfect simple is used to emphasise the result then why is it correct to say 'Sorry I am late. I missed the bus' and not 'Sorry I am late. I have missed the bus' Thank you :) I have never heard that it is used to emphasize the result. When you use the present perfect, it has to be co...

You said, "the book asks students to identify the rules ..but i prefer to put this all on the board from the book and try to elicit form and meaning from the students...." I'm not sure what you put on the board and when, but I know I always had better luck when I tried to involve the students too. O...

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I remember an activity where I made sets of questions of any kind. (What's your favorite_____ and why? What did you eat last night? What do you like to cook? How often do you send text messages?...), say, 20 questions in a set. Each set was in an envelope. I put a letter on the envelope. I had stude...

Intonation goes down with declarative sentences with me, so I see no difference like that.

Your second sentence would be clearer. I remember an old advertisement for the yellow pages, the book for advertising businesses with their addresses and phone numbers, which said "let your fingers do the walking" but I don't know if that is understood by other people, and whether it would be unders...

Did you try registering there too? I'm sorry I have no control over that board.

I did a great deal in my pronunciation classes on the kind of "fast speech" we use in American English. You can see what I mean at my (alas) unfinished but grandly titled "Listening to American English" exercises I started when I was learning how to use flash. http://fog.ccsf.cc.ca.us/~lfried/activi...

You can also take notes, especially on things that make it difficult to understand. I used to tell my pronunciation students to concentrate on fixing on thing at a time. There is no way you can worry about everything at once, because then you will be afraid to open your mouth. But if you are concent...

If I might add, I got a copy of Lewis' The English Verb some time ago after one of these discussions. It was really interesting reading, and I even managed to use some of it to explain an alternate "grammar" explanation to my high level students. It's one of the few books I kept when I retired. You ...

My son is doing speech therapy with a six year-old who sounds the same way. He's been using stickers as rewards, and so many stickers gets a prize. Don't know if that would help or not.

I taught many many classes over the years in English with adult students at a very beginning level. I used a smattering of different languages (none of which I was fluent in) to occasionally get a little rapport ("Don't worry." "Little by little" etc.) but it was a mixed class and I certainly didn't...

It seems to be "While discussing this issue, we had a great time."

Although on second thought, the meaning to me is slightly different, as is often the case!

my students cannot pronounce p or j they sound like ba so they might say phonetically I bark my car, I am looking for a bab (job). Middle east. Haven't found the best way to correct this yet. I haven't taught too many Middle Eastern students. I have never heard of j sounding like b. One way to make...

And nice to see you, Larry!