This simple question has been posed twice in emails this week. Both ESL students and teachers know that too many textbooks fail to engage readers. Yet rather than focusing on the many sins of the many boring textbooks, let’s focus on those few informative, practical, and interesting ESL books that we like. Here is a quick, superficial, and by no means comprehensive list of English as a Second Language books that I personally have found successful in teaching English Academic ESL/intensive...Read Full Story
Hard words in the Walgreens checkout line led one woman to repeatedly stab another in the arm Tuesday morning.The 31-year-old victim from East St. Louis, whose name was not released, was in the Walgreens on State and 25th street with her two daughters about 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.
Hard words in the Walgreens checkout line led one woman to repeatedly stab another in the arm Tuesday morning. The 31-year-old victim from East St. Louis, whose name was not released, was in the Walgreens on State and 25th street with her two ...
Articles from a newspaper are a fantastic way to get EFL/ESL students to speak. They're full of recent and interesting news. Here's a list of three free activities you can use to get started.Contributor: Dillon BrownPublished: Feb 06, 2012
A free EFL/ESL activity that combines curiosity and international news articles to open up students’ minds, expose them to other cultures and generate meaningful conversation in English.Contributor: Dillon BrownPublished: Feb 06, 2012
We write to communicate our ideas. We use nouns to name what we are talking about, fish or chips, war or peace. One of the building blocks of communication is the noun. The noun is a name of a person place or thing. In fact the word comes from the word "name" in LATIN. In Spanish it is a "nombre"; in French it is a "nom", both words that mean "name". In this article you will learn how to use the noun in your writing. You will also learn of tht...
The sentence is the first line of organizing our thoughts in our writing. We can communicate not only the content but also the feelings around what is said. To write good English it is necessary to know how to put words together in order to communicate what you want to get over to your readers. That is, you have to know: what a sentence is, what kind of sentences you can use, and how and when to use the different kinds of sentences.
SUNDAY, Jan. 29 (HealthDay News) -- Teens who think of themselves as thrill-seekers and who believe their parents don't set rules are among the most likely to drive with other teens in the car, which in many states violates graduated licensing laws, a new study finds.
On February 26, a dictionary written by Ruchinath Borgohain in 1810 will also be reprinted and released and the second edition of Nathan Brown's Grammatical Notices of the Assamese Language will also be released. The publishing house had first reprinted this copy in July 2011.
clubEFL has fantastic resources for EFL/ESL students and teachers, including: * A Picture Dictionary and a Talking Dictionary. These stand out particularly for all the additional interactive reinforcement activities they include. ...
A new philosophical dictionary titled "Words of Wisdom: A Philosophical Dictionary for the Perennial Tradition" offers precise, yet clear and understandable accounts of well over a thousand key philosophical terms.
The Power of Words - A dictionary blog that represents the objective, obscure and outrageous use of a common pocket dictionary and word association to profile the latest events that make up news headlines from around the world.