... listening and speakingactivities 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 ... 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 for learners...
... Second Edition Writing Better English FORESLLEARNERS This page intentionally left blank Second Edition Writing Better English FORESLLEARNERS ED SWICK New York Chicago San Francisco ... well TO BE SPEAKING a continuous action Present Who is speaking? Past Who was speaking? Present Perfect Who has been speaking? Past Perfect Who had been speaking? Future Who will be speaking? ... 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...
... 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 ... Was she home all day? Did Robert have the radio? Did the woman run for the bus? Did the dogs fight over a bone? Lana has been speaking with him Has he been going to his class? I have been working...
... 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 ... you never been to New York City? 117 118 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Lin wasn’t speaking with anyone The children don’t cooperate with the substitute teacher They...
... 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...
... hates to eat apples etc Transformation Exercises The teacher gives a sentence to students along in a brief instruction which forces the students to communicate with other form Example: Teacher: I ... After the students have practiced and understood the dialogue, they can practice again, using information of their own Dialogue creation Students can be, given the beginning lines in a dialogue ... finish the dialogue creatively Songs Students can study and learn to sing songs to practice their speaking 10 Tongue Twisters and Other Pronunciation Exercises (Sưu tầm) ...
... speaking 1.2.1 What speaking is 1.2.2 The position of speaking skills among four language skills 1.2.3 Speakingactivities 10 1.2.3.1 A successful speaking activity 12 1.2.3.2 Problems with speaking ... is the typical force of speaking that no other skills has It is this characteristic that makes speaking to be appreciated higher and higher Teaching speaking skills, therefore, is forced to be ... both speaking skills and warm- up activities It is hard for the author to deal with everything about them but hopefully, the thesis has introduced something new, creative and advantageous for foreign...
... of speaking though extra activitiesSpeaking is usually the topic priority probably the most important aspect of the language for communication and students enjoy it Futhermore, speakingactivities ... study English speaking through extra- activities That is the reason why I decided to choose the research with the title How to improve English speaking skill through extra- activitiesfor the first ... Private University improve their speaking skill through extra- activities and to prepare for them to the basic knowledge of speaking skill with higher requirement for the next graders To sumarize...
... sub-skills in BE speaking are necessary for Vietnamese businessmen; What kind of classroom speakingactivities are appropriate for teaching these sub skill; And how effective the speakingactivities ... taught at the university level for preparing students before entering the business world The mastery of BE speaking skill is a priority for many second or foreign language learners (Richards, 1990, ... role play, and information gap for teaching exchanging information; activity card game, jigsaw puzzle and role play for teaching telephoning; and activity using noticing the gap, information gap,...
... valid only for attendance in the school district or institution identified on the authorization 42 • • ESL Learners: A Guide forESL Specialists Provincial Funding forESL Students for whom ESL funding ... competence.3 for more information, see Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students Alexandria, VA: TESOL Inc 1997 ESL Learners: A Guide forESL Specialists ... Assessment for English Language Learners: Practical Approaches for Teachers (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996), p 77 Analytic Oral Language Scoring Rubric • • • • • • 20 ESL Learners: A Guide for ESL...