Looking for memory aids/mnemonics for EFL

[jenviolin]

Hello colleagues,

I am searching for mnemonics for English teaching. They will be used in practice teaching and class work at a teacher training college. If you can suggest any, I would be very grateful!!! You can post them here or mail them to the e-mail address below.
They may be for spelling ("i before e except after c..."), grammar ("Ed helps the weak" - past tense ending for weak, regular verb forms), or facts ("Thirty days has September..."); they may also be LI-specific: in Dutch, for instance, learners can remember word order with PTT, the old abbreviation for the postal system): Place, then Time).
I hope you will share your helpful, creative or simply weird memory aids with us!
Appreciatively,
Jenny
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[Sally Olsen]

My Very Early Morning Jam Sandwich Usually Nauseates People
OR
My Very Excellent Mom Just Served Us Nine Pizzas


These two phrases represent the order of planets from the Sun:
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto

One last one...do you know the order of colors in a rainbow? Just remember this person's name: Roy G. Biv


R=red; O=orange Y=yellow
G=green B = Blue I = Indigo V = Violet

[Andrew Patterson]

Making predicate questions:
ASI - Auxiliary Subject Infinitive/QASI - Question word Auxiliary Subject Infinitive (pronounced exactly like "khazi".):oops: Listen to Sid James in "Carry on up the Khyber" for the correct pronounciation.

"i" before "e" except after c ( where the sound is /i:/.)

[Andrew Patterson]

Here's another mnemonic. The coordinating conjunctions:

For
And
Nor
But
Or
Yet
So

Make the acronym "F. A. N. B. O. Y. S."

[Rosebud]

Colours of the rainbow:-

Richard of York gave battle in vain.

For learning musical notes:- Every Good Boy Deserves Favour and FACE

For imperial and metric measurements:-
Two and half pounds of jam,
weigh about a kilogram.

A metre is three foot three,
it's longer than a yard you see.