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Listening Comprehension – Toilet Training the Cat – Stuart McLean Last year, Canada lost a national treasure – Stuart McLean. He began his radio program The Vinyl Cafe in 1994, and to date has recorded more than 400 stories on CBC radio (Canadian Broadcast Company). It got to be so popular that he traveled throughout small town Canada with musical acts and shared his stories about Dave, Morley, Sam and Stephanie on the Vinyl Cafe with that old radio voice that captivated so many. 7esl Action Verbs! Useful list of action verbs in English with pictures and example sentences. Verbs are vital in any language and English is no different, however there are often so many that it can become very confusing. For this reason we have broken the English verbs down into more manageable chunks. In this section, you will be looking at verbs that are used to describe an action.

Five Steps to Writing a Good For and Against Essay An essay is a formal piece of writing which describes, analyses or discusses a particular issue. The most common types are: Opinion essays. They present the writer’s personal opinion of the topic, supported with examples and reasons.For and against essays. Halloween Worksheets and Activities Lanternfish has a variety of different activities for Halloween. Just click on the worksheet below. It may take a while to open as most of the files are MS Word documents. Happy Halloween! Crosswords: What monster likes blood?

10 Best Free Listening Websites with Quizzes to Practise for Listening Exams So what do you do to practise listening for exams? Growing up, I never had the opportunity to do any extra practice to improve my listening skills. We didn’t have the Internet and the thousand possibilities it offers to learners of any language nowadays. The teachers had an old tape player that sometimes stopped and started on its own and old tapes that ended up sounding distorted and most of the times unlistenable so if you wanted to get better at listening, you just listened to the radio and struggled to understand the lyrics and sing along. Not that I ever complained. That was the perfect excuse to listen to music while claiming to be working hard.

How to Ask for & Give Directions in English Useful expressions for asking and giving directions in English you should learn. You will find these English expressions useful if you are lost or want to get to a particular place or give directions to others. ASKING FOR and GIVING DIRECTIONS in English – Video How to Teach the Standards Without Becoming Standardized The standards are the learning goal, the “what” of education, but there are many approaches to how those standards are taught. “When you empower kids in that way in a standards-driven space, you see amazing things,” Laufenberg said. Standards can also give teachers a common language to talk about one another’s ideas.

HIS or HE´S? Choose the right option. 1. This is John. a good student. marks are great. 2.