You may be surprised to find that there are different ways of going about learning languages, none of which is necessarily better than the others. Researchers have identified four basic learner “types” – the communicative learner, the analytical learner, the authority-oriented learner and the co...
loves learning new words and playing with words. If you have an extensive vocabulary, enjoy flipping through dictionaries and thesauruses to expand your vocabulary and love playing with words through puns, rhyming, tongue twisters, etc. you most likely ...
Read, read, read—in English, of course! Reading is one of___ways to increase your vocabulary and___your grammar in a natural and fun way. Be sure to choose topics or books you are interested in. When someone___in English, listen to the main point. If you___a word you don’t...
Schools have found over the years that it is best to group students, but they have often missed the mark in choosing the groups in bygone years. Many of them believed it was best to put all students of the same age into groups and teach them. While some students excelled far beyond th...
Professor of English vocabulary, we must first teach students to pronounce, let the students know common letter (combination) sounds, to master the same letter (combination) of different sounds and different letters (combinations) of the same pronunciation. ...
You can also access full transcripts of each talk to review any new grammar and vocabulary. User review“TED Ed is an invaluable asset to both teachers and students. Many of the speakers are young people who have literally changed the world somehow, and students need to see and hear that ...
In this map of laughter around the world you will be able to see how haha is written in different countries depending on their languages.
How to teach ellipsis and substitution As with a lot of things, the first step is to raise awareness of its existence. This is something which is often dealt with in ‘advanced’ level materials. This is fair enough in terms of getting students to produce natural sounding language but this...
Recently I’ve been struggling (not for the first time, obviously) to find some nice way to teach/ revise a grammar topic, and by “nice way” I mean something different from exercises (which are great, but mostly as a homework) and videos featuring the grammar usage (which are good ...
A question to most on here… Does it matter? Language is organic and constantly changing. There are words and phrases in existence now that were unheard years ago and other ones used in different ways! If new words/meanings/semantics become ‘normal’, does that not make them correct? After...