Google Image Result for Table of Contents - Peck's English Pointers - TERMIUM Plus® - Bureau de la traduction Peck's English Pointers Accueil > TERMIUM Plus® > Peck's English Pointers > Table of Contents La zone de recherche et les fonctionnalités English : The best site for the Students to learn English online. Grammar Girl Mignon Fogarty is the creator of Grammar Girl and the founder and managing director of Quick and Dirty Tips. A magazine writer, technical writer, and entrepreneur, she has served as a senior editor and producer at a number of health and science web sites. She has a B.A. in English from the University of Washington in Seattle and an M.S. in biology from Stanford University. Mignon believes that learning is fun, and the vast rules of grammar are wonderful fodder for lifelong study. She strives to be a friendly guide in the writing world. Grammar Girl provides short, friendly tips to improve your writing. To book a lecture event with Mignon Fogarty for your company or organization, contact Macmillan Speakers. Follow Mignon on Google+, Twitter, Facebook, StumbleUpon, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. Awards Media The Oprah Winfrey Show, Grammar Girl Fixes Common Mistakes, March 2007 "Mignon has come up with clever ideas to help even the most grammatically challenged person remember the rules." "Helpful.
Classroom Materials » BEG Teacher-Created Worksheets contributed by ESL/EFL teachers everywhere Azar Grammar Series: Basic English Grammar, 4th edition Our Teacher-Created Worksheets were contributed by fellow teachers. “I hope you will share materials you have created for your own teaching as a way of helping other teachers.” —Betty Azar Submit your worksheets for publication. Chapter 1—Using Be A / An / The and Prepositions Assessment Michelle Cohen Ivy Collegiate Academy Adjective Mix and Match Contractions with Be Myra M. Error Analysis Find the Scary Creatures—Prepositions of Place Keith Pluas Colegio La Quinta del Puente In and Around the Bus—Prepositions of Place Negative Contractions with BE Noun + Is and Are Kelly Kennedy-Isern Miami Dade College Prepositions of Place Pronoun + Be + Noun Review The Be Verb Present and Past The teachers at Edmonds Community College The Verb To Be Review Using Adjectives with Be Myra M. Using Be with Adjectives Using Be in Contractions Using Be in Negations Using Pronouns + Be Using Pronouns and Contractions with Be
January 2018 Game On in 2018: 2 Grammar Games to Engage ELLs by Elinor Westfold and Loren Lee Chiesi Grammar can induce dread or—worse—boredom in English language learners (ELLs). In 2018, resolve to make learning grammar more fun for your students. Playing games during grammar class is one of the easiest ways to motivate ELLs to practice challenging grammar structures. Games help students focus on grammatical forms in meaningful contexts and build automaticity. We developed the following two games to help our high intermediate and advanced writing students practice accurately using subordinate clauses. Game 1: Adjective Clause Matching This 30-minute activity motivates ELLs to write accurate adjective clauses connected to pictures. Materials A PowerPoint presentation with high-interest pictures (see a sample presentation in PowerPoint or PDF)Index cardsA table at the front of the classroom Step 1 Put students in groups of three or four. Step 2 Step 3 Figure 1. Step 4 Figure 2. Step 5 Figure 3. Variations
Nine Common Modal Verbs in English: Forms, Positions, and Meanings written by: Heather Marie Kosur • edited by: Tricia Goss • updated: 7/10/2012 The following article lists and explains nine modal verbs in English and discusses some of the possible definitions and meanings of these modal verbs. ModalityModal verbs are common auxiliary verbs in Germanic languages including English that indicate modality. Semantics and Pragmatics of English Modal Verbs Modal verbs are difficult to define because of the because of the wide range of pragmatic uses of modal auxiliaries.
English4u - English grammar exercises online English grammar: A complete guide Do you have a question about the correct usage of the semi-colon or how to place relative adverbs in a sentence? If so, you've come to the right place! The edufind.com English grammar guide is a complete reference on the rules of English usage. Every grammatical rule is explained in clear, simple language with several examples and, when necessary, counter-examples. Comparisons Conditional Future Gerund and Present Participle Infinitive Passive Voice Past Present Functions and classes of determiners Articles Quantifiers Distributives The Farmer and the Fortune Teller: Using stories to teach grammar – Jason Anderson – Teacher, teacher educator and author Some of us love grammar lessons, but others… If you, or your learners, fall into the second category, one great way to make grammar meaningful, interesting and even edifying is to adapt stories to include a little grammar that you can then extract and analyse. Stories provide for ‘Context, Analysis and Practice’ (C-A-P: something I’ll be talking about more at IATEFL Glasgow 2017, watch this space). Here’s how you can use them: Context – Live listening If you’re confident telling the story yourself, you can turn it into a listening activity even if you don’t have an audio player or speakers. Analysis – Noticing and understanding It’s useful at this stage to give them a copy of the story, and get them to underline examples of key words, tenses or sentences that you want them to notice. Practice built-in! A particular advantage of using stories is that once you’ve done the analysis, you can use the same story for the practice. Here’s an example from my website. Like this: Like Loading...
Adverbs / Adjectives / Linking Verbs 1. Jack spoke to the audience urging them to elect him president of the union. He knew he had a chance of winning the election. 2. Melanie ate her lunch. She knew the meeting was and she didn't want to be late. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.