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Teacher Joseph's Website about Accent Reduction and Life in the UK
In a post published April 26, 2015, I recommended A guide to understanding persuasive language, provided by the University of New South Wales, Australia. This guide provided excellent advice on developing writing and speaking skills. Unfortunately, this link is no longer available, but don’t despair! I have found a well-written, concise guide on Literary Techniques by the BBC […]
(Photo credit: https://bit.ly/2NsUVgm) Firstly let’s get something clear here, I’m not talking about discipline as in teachers punishing students, I’m going to explore the idea of the role of personal discipline in the learning process for the student. In the past all forms of discipline were left up to the teacher to instill in the student. […]
via What is the role of DISCIPLINE in the future of LEARNING — The FUTURE of Learning
The English language is full of collocations and idioms. By collocations, I mean words that naturally go together like ‘high hopes‘, ‘heavy rain‘, and ‘make friends‘. We don’t say ‘tall hopes’, ‘huge rain‘ or ‘produce friends‘. Idioms are expressions whose meaning cannot be predicted by the words in the expression; for example, ‘to kick the […]
via A song with Collocations and Idioms — Mary’s English Blog
I have uploaded a video called “Better Pronunciation” to my site. You can see it here.
IELTS Essay, September 2018.
I have a free “drop in” English class for Brazilian people weekly. If you would like to join this weekly class or would like more details please contact me. It is open to all Brazilians who are trying to learn English and is free. You only need a Skype ID. The class cannot be larger than 25 people.
Brazil has many economic and social problems – if you are a teacher and you would like to participate in this voluntary project please contact me.
Easy English Grammar Exercises Write the sentences and add capital letters, full stops and question marks: how do I get to the library from here
Having relatively recently taken my learning of the English language seriously, I have come across the idea of descriptive versus prescriptive language. I have always thought that as long as the intended message is sent, received and understood, the way in which this is achieved is irrelevant. What is Prescriptive language? This is where the […]
ESL–English as a Second Language. (Confession time–English is my first language. I am functional but would not call myself quite fluent in Spanish. Those are the only two languages I know more than a few words in. I was also an English major in college.) I follow some very fine blogs written in English, where […]
I got my IELTS results yesterday. Overall Band 7.0 L: 8.5 R: 7.5 W: 6.0 S: 6.5 Low scores for writing and speaking but fortunately, I am still qualified in the required scores of the Universities in NL and NZ. I can think of several justifications why I got those scores but mainly, I know, […]