The 50 most useful Idioms and their Meaning - A list on 1 page
Commonly used Idioms Idiom: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language Every language has its own collection of wise sayings.
Sound matters
A series of pronunciation activities by Adrian Tennant. Each lesson plan focuses on the distinction between two or three problematic phonemes and includes teacher's notes, a student worksheet and a podcast. Pronunciation activities: Part 1This lesson by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the long and short 'i' sound, marking the difference in words like 'ship' and 'sheep'.Pronunciation activities: Part 2This lesson in the series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the two phonemes at the beginning of the words 'yet' and 'jet'.Pronunciation activities: Part 3This lesson in the series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the sounds 'n' and 'ng' in words like 'ran' and 'rang'.Pronunciation activities: Part 4This lesson in the series by Adrian Tennant focuses on the distinction between the phonemes marking the two vowels sounds in the words 'shot' and 'shout'.
5641 FREE Grammar Worksheets
Grammar can often be very difficult to teach and just as difficult to learn - but Busyteacher.org has 11,185 printable grammar worksheets in different categories. Whether you're looking for worksheets on a specific topics, like movies, nationalities, or music; or on a specific area of grammar, like tenses, gerunds, prepositions, or modal verbs, BusyTeacher.org has got you covered. All 11,185 of our printable worksheets are completely free to download without registering or logging in, and every single one of them was created and submitted by fellow ESL teachers from around the world. The worksheets below will help you supplement your lessons, and will also provide additional practice for your students. Our worksheets serve as great gap fillers during lessons, to help your students retain the grammar learned during the lesson.
Fun Classroom Activity: Bingo
“Bingo!” Who doesn’t like the thrill of finding the last item on your list, jumping out of your chair, and shouting you won? Bingo is an incredibly fun game to play in group, is very easy to play, and can help rehearse anything from language vocabulary to math and historical facts. Everyone can play the game together, regardless of level.
30 Of The Most Powerful Images Ever
A picture is worth a thousand words, but not all pictures are created equal. These pictures are powerful. They are gripping and unforgettable because of the volumes they speak about the human condition – about some of the best and worst moments of contemporary human existence. We should warn our readers that some of these pictures may upset them, while others may fill them with joy.
The Present Perfect Simple Tense
The Perfect Tenses The opinion of many native and non-native English speakers is that the perfect tenses are far from being ‘perfect’. They cause headaches for most people. On these pages, we will break the perfect tenses down into short sections that will make them easier to understand. Useful Tip Time Expressions in the Present Perfect
Oral Narrative Genres as Dialogic Resources for Classroom Literature Study: A Contextualized Case Study of Conversational Narrative Discussion on JSTOR
Five questions guided a case study exploring the relationship between oral narrative and discussion in middle school literature study: (a) Relative to similar classrooms in a large-scale study, how can overall literature instruction be characterized? (b) Relative to similar classrooms in a large-scale study, how well do students achieve in the focal classroom? (c) What, if any, are the links between oral narrative and discussion? (d) If discussion and narrative co-occur, what sorts of oral narratives do narrators tell in discussions? and (e) If discussion and narrative co-occur, how can we characterize the overlap in terms of interaction? In the frequent conversational narrative discussions, where oral narrative and discussion discourse overlapped, teacher and students used various kinds of oral narrative genres to prime, sustain, ratify, and amplify discussion.
How classrooms look around the world — in 15 amazing photographs
To mark last month’s World Teachers’ Day (sponsored by UNESCO , the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), photographers from Reuters took pictures around the world of educators with their students in a telling exhibit of the very different circumstances under which children attend school. Here are 15 pictures taken by Reuters photographers, revealing the spectrum of “classrooms” — from those with literally no resources to those well-stocked and housed. Teacher Mahajera Armani and her class of girls pose for a picture at their study open area, founded by Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), outside Jalalabad city, Afghanistan September 19, 2015. (Reuters) Class one children aged between six and seven years old pose for pictures in their classroom at Gifted Hands Educational Centre in Kenya’s Kibera slum in the capital Nairobi, September 16, 2015.
How to Debate: 12 Resources for Your Class' First Debate
By Anna Olinger Class debates teach more than just public speaking skills. They help students develop critical thinking, research and organization skills and teach the prioritization of information.
Reading Comprehension Worksheets
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Oral literature
Oral literature, the standard forms (or genres) of literature found in societies without writing. The term oral literature is also used to describe the tradition in written civilizations in which certain genres are transmitted by word of mouth or are confined to the so-called folk (i.e., those who are “unlettered,” or do not use writing). Oral literature is, arguably, the best phrase available for describing these two senses. The term oral covers both, but these two meanings should be distinguished. While certain forms, such as the folktale, continue to exist, especially among the unlettered component of complex societies, what might also be called oral tradition (or folk literature) is inevitably influenced by the elite written culture. The term literature also poses problems because it is ultimately derived from the Latin littera, “letter,” essentially a written, indeed alphabetic, concept.
