... this
global economy is increasing at a rapid rate. The
ability to speak, read, and write two or more lan-
guages is a great advantage in the job market.
Economic:
When the native language is maintained,
important ... EnglishLanguage Learners
Chapter 3 At -a- Glance
Chapter 3 is filled with practical, research-based instructional strategies that are
recommended for use with Englishlanguage learners. As you ... can read,
you can read. This ability transfers rapidly to other
languages you acquire. If the goal is second language
literacy, a rapid means of achieving it is building
reading ability in a...
... Functional-Notional Approach stopped teaching grammar and
started teaching more practical phrases and vocabulary for everyday life and social
situations. Students learnt spoken functions such as asking ... Definition
According to American and British proponents, Communicative Language Teaching is an
approach that aims to (a) make communicative competence the goal of language teaching
and (b) develop ... meetings. Approximately half the teachers
surveyed have access to a cassette player at school, one quarter to a DVD/CD player and
one-fifth to a computer. Access to materials for preparing visual aids...
... sincerely grateful to Mr. Đinh Tấn Bảo and my colleagues of Foreign
Languages Department, Quang Ngai Teachers Training College for their attention and
encouragement.
I am appreciative of all those ... ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
First of all, I would like to express my deep gratitude to all my teachers at College
of Foreign Languages, Vietnam National University-Hanoi for their valuable lectures. And ... Techniques for language teaching 6
1.4. Summary 6
Chapter 2: An Investigation into the Current Performance of English Teaching and
Learning in Junior High Schools in Quang Ngai Province 7
2.1....
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The following languages are available in the Colloquial series:
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*Portuguese...
... there are a number of compre-
hensive and reliable works readily available on the TEFL market,
and at a reasonable price.
I have made sparing use of the IPA phonetic alphabet (and in a
broad rather ... them.
regular verb – a verb that forms its past simple tense by adding -ed.
relative clause – a clause that adds information about the main
clause in a complex sentence: The man we saw yesterday
is ... people learn English all over the world, and they all manage
pretty well with the spelling, because the more contact you have
with the language, the easier it is. If you approach this aspect of
English...
... like vanilla ice cream?
A
DRIAN
: Yes.
G
ERRY
: What about strawberry?
A
DRIAN
: Yes.
G
ERRY
: What about chocolate?
A
DRIAN
: Yes.
G
ERRY
: What about lemon?
A
DRIAN
: No.
G
ERRY
: And what about ... Then he wants to ask
the same about other people – he says What about Gerry and Adrian?
and What about Justine?. We use What about . . .? to indicate that
we’re asking the same question as before. ... what’s her
name?
S
HAMIRA
: That’s Helen. And the man sitting with her . . .
K
ATH
: I know his name – that’s Adrian, isn’t it?
S
HAMIRA
: Yes – he’s our boss.
Language point 6 – possessive adjectives
Between...
... my yacht – Really?
Norman’s bought another horse – Really?
Chocolate is an aphrodysiac – Really?
More than a billion people speak Chinese – Really?
Stuart adds Like me! to say that what Rosemary ... you?
R
OSEMARY
: I teach in a primary school.
Language point 9 – a /‘an’ and ‘the’
In Dialogue 9, Rosemary says I teach in a primary school – she uses
the
INDEFINITE ARTICLE
with the noun because ... Lisa – ______
We use the
DEFINITE ARTICLE
the when talking about something that
has already been mentioned, or that we know about anyway:
James is taking a
taxi to the airport
Tom works in an
office...
... ______
a place an owner a time a person
a choice a thing
a reason a way/method
Language point 16 – mine and
yours
In Dialogue 7, Fred says That’s mine, meaning That’s my latte.
Look at these ... common
WEAK PRONUNCIATION
otherwise.
Here are some that we have had already – if you have the cassettes/
CDs, listen again to the Dialogues we have had so far and see if you
can hear the weak pronunciations.
Full ... [–]
Stephen speak Russian play the piano
James drink coffee speak Russian
Oliver wear glasses drink coffee
Jenny play the piano wear glasses
Language point 14 – forms of the verb
There are five main forms...
... Language point 20 – phrasal verbs
A
PHRASAL VERB
is a
VERB
+
ADVERB
which together have a special
meaning. For example, carry on in Dialogue 4 means continue – it
has nothing to do with carry.
Phrasal ... important thing about phrasal verbs is that they
often (though not always) have a meaning that is different from the
separate meanings of the verb and adverb. For example, turn up
means arrive ... give let find make
and the
ADVERBS
that go with them to make phrasal verbs are
usually adverbs of place or motion:
about away in over
across back off through
along by on under
around down out...
... eggs
2 ____ teabags 12 ____ newspaper
3 ____ loaf of bread 13 ____ melon
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Language point 24 – ‘did’ auxiliary
We have already seen do as an
AUXILIARY
in the present simple
(Language point 12):
Do
you ... places where you can sit down and eat a meal
pub – place where you can sit and drink alcoholic drinks and eat food
railway station – place where trains stop
could do with – need
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A
SSISTANT
: ... is always countable! Another word for tin is can, which is used in the UK
particularly for drinks. For an explanation of uncountable and countable nouns,
see Language point 23 below.
Language...