interesting topics for esl conversation class

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 23:50

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 11:21

... wait for you to repeat it more clearly Work on Everyone's Difficulties • If you are doing a pronunciation exercise or discussing a false cognate for one linguistic group follow it up with one for ... use a multilingual conversational exercise to point out the difference between what a student thinks he is saying and what his classmates actually hear As students tend to forget, communication ... aspects of multi-lingual classrooms is that the widely varying cultural, linguistic and personal backgrounds of the students provide a constant source of interesting conversational material Use...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 11:10

... allocates 5% of probability mass for mixing 6.2 Supervised Sentiment Classification We performed 5-fold cross validation for the performance evaluation of supervised sentiment classification Results reported ... combination of sentiment label li and topic zi for word wi Finally, feature selection is performed according to the information gain criteria and a classifier is then trained from the source domain ... polarity-bearing topics generated from JST, xs = (w1 , w2 , , wm , l1 z1 , l2 z2 , , lm zm ) n s 5: Add {xs ; yn } into a document pool B n 6: end for 7: Perform feature selection using IG on B 8: Return a classifier,...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 04:20

... attractive countries for FDI for past two decades All the three PICs were among the top 10 destinations for FDI in developing AsiaPacific region (Table 1) Table 1: Top 10 Destinations for FDI in Developing ... employment and foreign direct investment for Fiji through a multivariate modeling strategy by including GDP We proceeded in four steps First, we subjected the data series –real GDP, real foreign direct ... relationships among the variables when formal sector employment and GDP were the endogenous variables This finding paved the way for estimating marginal effect on the impact of foreign direct investment and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/03/2013, 23:49

... Second Edition Writing Better English FOR ESL LEARNERS This page intentionally left blank Second Edition Writing Better English FOR ESL LEARNERS ED SWICK New York Chicago San Francisco ... anyone else for any inaccuracy, error or omission, regardless of cause, in the work or for any damages resulting therefrom McGraw-Hill has no responsibility for the content of any information accessed ... Set a standard of quality for yourself and conform to it Use the Answer Key not only to check your work but also to find suggestions for how to write appropriate sentences for any of the exercises...

Ngày tải lên: 31/08/2013, 19:16

... any classroom Good presentations may take time to produce or adapt, but they can be shared and used year after year They can be used for whole class presentations and reviews, for drills, or for ... download PowerPoint presentations I like to download presentations for elementary school children and then modify them for my ESL students who are older As you become more familiar with PowerPoint, ... s-video output for better pictures Manufactures are starting to market outputs for high definition TV's Teachers need to find how they can get the right type of output from their computer for a TV...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 10:10

... conversation in the textbook as a class and then practice saying or repeating problematic words for pronunciation Now is the time to practice any problematic phrases or cultural concepts or for ... perform their conversation I say "volunteer" because students are told that they not have to the conversation if they don't want to, but if they "volunteer", each student will receive a "+" for ... college students need more than just one kind of classroom methodology They also benefit from a variety of classroom activities such as short classroom videos, oral presentations or computer...

Ngày tải lên: 06/09/2013, 11:10

Ngày tải lên: 11/10/2013, 12:11

... Customization Information 46 Classroom Setup Guide Classroom Requirements This course requires a classroom with a minimum of one computer for the instructor and one for each student Before class ... C:\Tools\DHCP folder Locate the appropriate file for your classroom number File names correspond with classroom numbers; for example, the Dhcp3.txt file is used for classroom 3 Right-click Dhcpx.txt, and ... Estimated time to set up the classroom: hours Classroom Setup Guide Automated Classroom Setup Use the following instructions to perform an automated setup of the classroom Instructor Computer...

Ngày tải lên: 04/11/2013, 16:15

... PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT English Grammar for ESL Learners PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT English Grammar for ESL Learners Ed Swick Copyright © 2005 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, ... anyone else for any inaccuracy, error or omission, regardless of cause, in the work or for any damages resulting there from McGraw-Hill has no responsibility for the content of any information ... hungry for one.) I want the apple (I am choosing between the apple and the orange that I see before me.) The definite article for plural nouns is also the But there is no indefinite article for plural...

Ngày tải lên: 09/11/2013, 19:33

... helps us to search for websites or information that we need and so I I also use this website to find out information for my work and for my relaxation I think it's really helpful for us Topic 39: ... perhaps, I will never forget this trip Topic 36: Describe something difficult that you did well 7/8 Topics for oral exams Prepared by Nguyen Viet Thuan- MiHao-Hung Yen I will never forget the time ... birthday, I was very surprised to get a special gift from one of my former friends who hasn't kept in touch with me for a long 6/8 Topics for oral exams Prepared by Nguyen Viet Thuan- MiHao-Hung Yen...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 13:26

... smallest classes in Levin48 have only 10 verbs We therefore reduce the number of training verbs to for each class For each n = 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 48, we will perform certain number of n-way classification ... and lexical information are useful for verb classification Although neither SCF nor CO performs well on its own, a combination of them proves to be the most informative feature for this task Other ... verbs in class c With a recall value computed for each verb class, the macro-averaged recall can be defined by: macro-averaged recall = X recall f or class c |C| c∈C C : a set of verb classes c...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 09:20

... assignment of label JJ to interesting in the context of NN for book Then we maintain the top two hypotheses for span book interesting as shown below The second most favorable label for interesting is still ... denote the top state for p as p.S = argmax V (s.T ) s: Mp (s)=∅ Therefore, for each span p, we have a top hypothesis p.S.T , whose score is the highest among all the hypotheses for span p Hypotheses ... train the local classifier Therefore, the order of inference and the local classification are dynamically incorporated in the learning phase Guided learning is not as hard as reinforcement learning...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... state-of-the-art accuracy on question classification (b) PB predicative structures are not effective for question classification but show promising results for answer classification on a corpus of answers ... representations introduced earlier for QA tasks In particular, we focus on question classification and answer re-ranking for Web-based QA systems In the question classification task, we extend previous ... split as UIUC The performance of the multi-classifier and the individual binary classifiers is measured with accuracy resp F1-measure To collect statistically significant information, we run 10-fold...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 12:20

... to the fact that the informationcontent of the utterances is ignored Consistency of the information exchanged in (taskoriented) conversationsis one of the main sources for dialogue coherence, ... dialogue and providing heuristics for different shifts of attention, we seek a formalisation of the information structure of utterances in terms of the new information that is exchanged in the ... oriented speech act classification of Seligman et al (1994), and with topic types The topics are assigned to utterances on the basis of the new information carried by the utterance New information (Clark...

Ngày tải lên: 20/02/2014, 18:20

... Birth Stones for Luck Kruger's Unlucky Diamond Strange Wills Laughagraphs The Man Who Can Make Us Laugh Queer Blunders A Mysterious Telegram Fortune Dead Easy A Bad Spell of Weather For An Evening ... loveliest nook, Where the four-leaf clovers grow One leaf is for hope, and one is faith, And one is for love, you know; And God put another one in for luck-If you search you will find where they grow ... seemeth best to think and to for self and for others Believing that these, my life-long experiences, will prove both instructive and highly entertaining, I am happy to send forth these talismanic best...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 12:21

... machine learning-based approach Therefore, we constructed a large-scale tense/aspect corpus from Lang-8,3 a social networking service for learners of foreign languages ESL learners post their writing ... errors We used Stanford Parser 1.6.9 for generating syntactic features and tense/aspect tagging 4.2 Classifiers Because we want to know the effect of using global context information with CRF, ... both sentences, we use the feature main-clause for the verb phrase pours, and sub-clause for the verb phrase rains along with the feature conj:when for both verb phrases Regarding p-tmod, we extract...

Ngày tải lên: 07/03/2014, 18:20

... FACT P RED 4.2 Table 2: Feature sets for SE classification 3.3 Preprocessing The linguistic tests for SE classification appeal to multiple levels of linguistic information; there are lexical, morphological, ... predicates like force generally introduce E-type SEs: (7) I forced [John to run the race with me] (8) * I forced [John to know French] The feature force-PREV is extracted if a member of the force-type ... Conclusions Situation entity classification is a little-studied but important classification task for the analysis of discourse We have presented the first data-driven models for SE classification, motivating...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 02:21