Listening Welcome to EnglishClub Listening, to help you learn the skill of listening in English. Listening is the first of the four language skills, which are: 1. Listening 2. Speaking 3. What Is Listening? How to Hear English Everywhere How can you hear English when you're not in an English-speaking country? Dictation Do you want to improve your English listening skills? Listen to English by Radio Listen to English online with programmes from stations like the BBC or Voice of America. Listen to the News Listen to our weekly digest of the news in English. Listen to Poetry in English Some classic pieces of poetry and other texts for you to listen to and read. Podcasts You can listen online or download these readings, many of which come with transcript and wordchecker to explain vocabulary. Improve your listening with MyEC! MyEnglishClub features thousands of videos and songs for English learners. This Week in History Listen to a new story every Monday. ESL Videos More listening practice by watching videos.
Center for Language Education The best way to improve your speaking skills is, of course, to speak in English as often as possible. English teachers often suggest that there are a lot of opportunities to use spoken English in Hong Kong. While we agree, we know that taking up these opportunities requires certain ‘strategies’ (not to mention courage). We also know that for most non-native speakers problems can arise when they are using English to communicate. It is, however, important for you to make effective use of speaking practice opportunities and the first two of the advice sheets described below will help you with strategies for creating and dealing with these situations. The next three advice sheets deal with more specific academic and professional situations in which you might be required to use spoken English. Advice sheets in the SAC Creating practice opportunities: Strategies for speaking A (S2) This advice sheet will help you to think about maximising your opportunities to use spoken English. And now...
If You Love To Read Emmy and Willy, who sit next to each other, were doing something on their laps - passing something back and forth, I think: I couldn't see what. Willy was giggling, though. Bubby played with her food. “It's too bad no one will ever read all the great novels Libby's written on the dining-room table,” he said (he knows I want to be a writer when I grow up - everyone who knows me knows that!). I didn't. Finally, he said he would tell us the news. “We're moving to England for six months. He said that he would go first, and my mother would bring us over on an ocean liner, and he'd find a place for us to live in London and a school for Emmy and me - and maybe Willy, too. I was still trying to imagine an ocean liner. “Will we be on the ship for a long time? “Five nights. "Like Libby!” “Liberté is French for Liberty. He talked about ocean liners for a long time: I pictured wind and ladies in long dresses going up the gangplank and the sound of a foghorn.
BBC Learning English | Prononciation Conseils Connecting With Students | Starting the School Year Right Refine Your Discipline Plan And Classroom Procedures After summer vacation and time off, students often have a hard time getting back into the 'school' habit. Use the following to help you reconnect with your students. 1. Highlight Connections Between Your Class and Students' Lives Connect Your Class to Careers Help students make the connection between your course and possible careers by hanging posters describing the responsibilities of people in different jobs. Alternatively, give bonus points to students who call attention to a connection between your lesson and one of these jobs. Create an Interesting, Organized Classroom Environment Given contradictory needs or distractible students, gifted students, and visual/spatial learners, a logical way to decorate a classroom includes: Provide a stimulating display for students entering the room. For a few ideas on how to put this together, check out Classroom Decor and find creative ideas adaptable to middle and high school levels. 2. 3.
Great books for ESL students (40) Present Simple & Present Progressive: présent simple et présent progressif ou continu Notes Notez le 's' à la troisième personne du singulier du 'Present Simple'.Avant d'ajouter -ing, il faut doubler la consonne finale si les deux conditions suivantes sont remplies: le verbe se termine par une seule voyelle suivie d'une seule consonne,la dernière syllabe est accentuée, ou il n'y a qu'une syllabe. Pour savoir si la syllabe est accentuée, il faut consulter un dictionnaire. Emploi Present Progressive Le Present Progressive (ou Present Continuous) s'emploie pour parler de: ce qui se passe maintenant: I'm reading a page on the Internet at the moment. Present Simple Le Present Simple s'emploie pour parler de: ce qui est toujours vrai: The sun rises in the east. Le Present Simple est aussi employé pour les verbes d'état, c'est-à-dire les verbes qui font référence à un état mental, émotionnel, etc. Il est à noter pourtant que certains de ces verbes peuvent avoir une signification autre que celle qu'ils ont lorsqu'ils sont considérés comme des verbes d'état. Pratique
Teaching Telephone English - Telephone English Lesson Plan Teaching telephone English can be frustrating as students really need to practice their skill as often as possible in order to improve their comprehension skills. Once they have learned the basic phrases used in telephoning, the main difficulty lies in communicating without visual contact. Telephone English poses a special problem for English learners because of the lack of visual clues used when speaking. Practicing telephone English in class can also seem rather artificial as exercises generally ask students to practice speaking on the phone through role-plays sitting together in small groups. This telephone English lesson plan focuses on creating a more realistic telephoning situations to encourage students to practice authentic telephoning situations. Aim: Improving Telephoning Skills Activity: Role playing using office telephone lines Level: Intermediate to advanced Outline: Review phrases used in telephoning.
Best Young Adult Novels, Best Teen Fiction, Top 100 Teen Novels It's almost a cliche at this point to say that teen fiction isn't just for teens anymore. Just last year, the Association of American Publishers ranked Children's/Young Adult books as the single fastest-growing publishing category. Which is why we were only a little surprised to see the tremendous response that came in for this summer's Best-Ever Teen Fiction poll. And now, the final results are in. Selecting a manageable voting roster from among the more than 1,200 nominations that came in from readers wasn't easy, and we were happy to be able to rely on such an experienced panel of judges. Summer, like youth, is fleeting.
Présent simple - What time do you wake up? - I wake up at 9.30 am Principaux emplois : vérités permanentes, actions répétitives/habituelles; sentiments Syntaxe : Ajoutez un -S à la 3ème personne du singulier. Si le verbe se termine par un -y précédé d'une consonne, le -y se change en -ies Exemple (verbe : to wake up / se réveiller): I wake up You wake up He/She/It wakeS up We wake up You wake up They wake up Négation : Utilisez les auxiliaires DON'T ou DOESN'T (3ème forme du singulier) I don't wake up at 9.30 am She doesn't wake up at 9.30 am Le 's' de la 3e personne du singulier vient se greffer à l'auxiliaire DO, pas au verbe. Question : Utilisez DO ou DOES (3ème forme du singulier) Do you wake up at 9.30? Le 's' de la 3e personne du singulier vient se greffer à l'auxiliaire DO, pas au verbe. Réponses : Do you wake up at 9.30 ? EXERCICE: Mettre les verbes au présent simple
Lesson Pronunciation Practice Stress and Intonation - Focus on Pronunciation Skills - Improving English Speaking Abilities - Stress and Intonation Improving English Stress and intonation refer to the "music" of speaking a language. Which words are stressed and the intonation you give when speaking can add subtle changes in meaning. Understanding and practicing the different types of common stress and intonation and English will help you or your students improve their English skills, as well as improve overall English pronunciation skills. I am often surprised at how focusing on the "stress - timed" quality of English helps students improve their pronunciation skills. Students often focus on pronouncing each word correctly and therefore tend to pronounce in an unnatural manner. By focusing on the stress - timed factor in English - the fact that only principal words such as proper nouns, principal verbs, adjectives and adverbs receive the "stress" - students soon begin sounding much more "authentic" as the cadence of the language begins to ring true. Aim: Improving pronunciation by focusing on the stress - time nature of spoken English Outline:
Basic English Conversations Basic English conversations help beginning learners build basic English skills. Each conversation group includes a few short conversations introducing basic English phrases. These short dialogues are ideal as models for beginners to begin speaking English. IntroductionsTelling the TimeGiving Personal InformationIn a ShopIn an AirportAsking for DirectionsIn a Motel / HotelIn a Restaurant If you are a beginning level English learner. Ask students about their experiences in the situation featured in the dialogue.
Konversation - Englisch Lernen Online Wenn man bei der Gastfamilie, Bekannten, Freunden oder Geschäftspartnern im englischsprachigen Ausland zum Essen eingeladen ist, ist man vielleicht etwas gehemmt weil man befürchtet etwas Falsches oder Unhöfliches zu sagen. Damit euch nicht vor Schreck das Essen im Hals stecken bleibt, nenne ich euch hier die wichtigsten Floskeln. [ Zum gesamten Artikel "Dialoge: beim Essen" →] Irgendwann verlaufen wir uns alle einmal. Besonders leicht passiert das im Ausland. Damit ihr in solchen Fällen wisst wie ihr nach dem Weg fragen könnt, habe ich euch hier einige Formulierungshilfen aufgelistet. [ Zum gesamten Artikel "Dialoge: nach dem Weg fragen" →] “..na, du weißt schon .. die dings.” Wenn man ein Gespräch beenden will und dann plötzlich nur noch rumstottert, weil einem nicht mehr einfällt, wie man sich richtig auf Englisch verabschiedet, kann es schnell peinlich werden. [ Zum gesamten Artikel "Dialoge: Begrüßung" →]
Konversation - Englisch Lernen Online Wie oft musste ich zu einem Kind schon sagen “Vorsicht!”, wenn es etwas Unüberlegtes tun wollte. Es ist wichtig zu wissen, wie man sich in solchen Situationen ausdrücken muss, denn eine Warnung kann für einen Anderen lebenswichtig sein. Dieses Wissen wollen wir Dir in diesem Artikel vermitteln. [ Zum gesamten Artikel "Dialoge: Jemanden warnen" →] Hilfe brauchen wir alle irgendwann einmal, deshalb hier ein paar schnelle Tipps, wie Du am Einfachsten jemanden auf Englisch um Hilfe bittest. [ Zum gesamten Artikel "Dialoge: Jemanden um Hilfe bitten" →] Stellt euch vor, ihr habt euch im Urlaub verletzt und müsst zum Arzt. Wenn man bei der Gastfamilie, Bekannten, Freunden oder Geschäftspartnern im englischsprachigen Ausland zum Essen eingeladen ist, ist man vielleicht etwas gehemmt weil man befürchtet etwas Falsches oder Unhöfliches zu sagen. Irgendwann verlaufen wir uns alle einmal.