... Second Edition Writing Better English FORESLLEARNERS This page intentionally left blank Second Edition Writing Better English FORESLLEARNERS 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...
... Reading activities: 11 II.1.3.1 Pre -reading activities 11 II.1.3.2 While -reading activities 14 II.1.3.3 Post -reading activities 15 II.2 PRE -READING ACTIVITIESFOR ... background: - Reading skill definition - Classification of reading skills: skimming, scanning, intensive reading and extensive reading - Reading activities: pre -reading, while -reading, postreading activities ... a specific piece of information Intensive reading: reading a short text for detailed information Extensive reading: reading a longer text, often for pleasure with emphasis on overall meaning...
... learning-based approach Therefore, we constructed a large-scale tense/aspect corpus from Lang-8,3 a social networking service forlearners of foreign languages ESLlearners post their writing ... 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 ... 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,...
... for breakfast./The boys want to have cereal for breakfast My sister can be home by 6:00 P.M./My sister wants to be home by 6:00 P.M They can travel to California./They want to travel to California ... Gutierrez can carry the groceries for her./Mr Gutierrez wants to carry the groceries for her You stay in bed all day I try hard My brother is a little late We find a room for the night Ms Brown gets ... be kissed by her Is the fence being built by Max? The map was forgotten by her brother Unit Subjunctive Mood 8-1 8-2 10 She demands Forrest return home by 5:00 P.M The man suggests you wear a shirt...
... McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Click here for terms of use 116 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Formed with no- Formed with not Positive Form none no one nothing nowhere never* ... two forms One form begins with no- (except for never and neither), and the other consists of not followed by another word When these words are not negative, they have a special positive form ... kind of Whose parents ? What sort of man would ? 114 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Andi told me what It’s hard to believe how The accident happened when How much ?...
... millennium G There are special rules for abbreviations for time B.C and A.D are always capitalized B.C is used for eras or years that occurred before Christ A.D is used for eras or years that occurred ... Companies, Inc Click here for terms of use 100 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Note that words that end in -ful, -less, and -ing use more and most to form the comparative ... that the subject—not the prepositional phrase—determines the form of the verb 94 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Singular Subject ϩ Plural Object of the Preposition...
... English Grammar forESLLearners When you use an adverb that shows that an action is done frequently (often, sometimes, always, usually, every day, etc.), you should use the habitual form of the ... change as well Following are the irregular past tense forms of some commonly used verbs: 30 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Infinitive Past Tense Infinitive Past Tense to ... Just like other perfect tenses, it has two formations: one for a habitual or frequent action and one for an action in progress or incomplete The structure for a habitual action is will ϩ have ϩ past...
... Companies, Inc Click here for terms of use 10 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Just like nouns, adjectives can follow the predicate They most often come after forms of the verbs ... add to or for before the indirect object noun or pronoun The indirect object becomes the object of the preposition to or for Place the prepositional phrase after the direct object For example: ... Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Subject Pronoun Direct or Indirect Object Prepositional Phrase I you he she it we they me you him her it us them after me behind you for him from her in it...
... the cut sets for reuse and let the learners keep the uncut photocopies for review Learners can write the story sequence for homework and retell the story the next day in pairs Linking ESL Instruction ... pace while learners listen to get the gist Next, give learners the set of comprehension questions Read the text aloud a third time forlearners to write their answers and a final time forlearners ... speaking activities contains just a few of the hundreds of activities available for classroom instruction The activities are directly tied to two of the listening/speaking assessments used in adult ESL...
... claimed that: “Extensive reading would normally start with readingfor the main ideas or for general information then for general comprehension and finally, after much practice, for details comprehension” ... More Reading Power is chosen as a core text book for teaching reading to the second year students at our Academy They have only 30 periods of readingfor each term, which counts for 60 periods for ... they are rarely used in reading lessons is understandable 3.1.3 Students’ preferences for Pre -reading activities It is noticeable that students’ preferences for Pre -reading activities differ from...