... selected, remember that mental fitness — your ability to concentrate, to reason, to visualize, to imagine, to make decisions, to solve problems, and to think clearly and creatively— depends greatly ... selected, remember that mental fitness — your ability to concentrate, to reason, to visualize, to imagine, to make decisions, to solve problems, and to think clearly and creatively — depends greatly ... need to pay a visit to the mental gymnasium." Mack turned around and led Tom through a small doorway to a spacious, brightly lit room: Mack's mental gymnasium. On the walls were anatomical...
... enough; they need to be able to follow the ideas in English. The exercises in this part are designed to help students develop their ability to follow ideas and thinking in English. Part four: ... handle subjects related to written materials in English and to work with their English- speaking colleagues and partners. It is essential for them to acquire the ability to read English effectively ... students have to work very hard to gain knowledge of Englishto support for their jobs when graduating since they use English as main tool in their work. For the last several years, English teaching...
... forward to spending their weekends in a queue, waiting for a shop to open or waiting for a parking space at the furniture superstore.If you ever decide to visit Britain, you will need to know ... one person to make a queue. If you are alone at a bus stop, for example, don’t look to relaxed. Make sure that you are in the queue and look optimistically to your right. If you want to keep your ... p.47)Part two: Work in pairs and discuss the following topic(Students picked up one among the topics given)1. The best way to travel is by bicycle. To what extend do you agree with this statement?2....
... people use English everyday, it is not an easy task to measure the length of time they use English, and it is even more complicated to decide what kind of English it is. It may be business English, ... pronunciationFirst and foremost, we would like to justify the reasons for our decision to use continuous feedback to help first year students of Englishimprove their pronunciation, although the ... control.However, there is one factor that clearly can be improved so as to bring the most benefits to learners, which are motivation and concern for good pronunciation. According to Kenworthy (1987),...
... course for first-year English majors with the hope toimprove their pronunciation. That was the reason why I conducted this study “Using software toimprove first-year English majors’ pronunciation: ... study is toimprove first-year English major students’ pronunciation, not all aspects but only the basic patterns of intonation in common functions are included in the pretest. As for intonation ... The purpose of this study is toimproveEnglish pronunciation for first-year English majors at Hong Duc University. Specifically, it has three purposes as follows: - To identify students’ most...
... dialogue journals improve the quality of writing by helping non-native English speakers to establish their identities and voice in English. Beyond providing a written way to connect to the curriculum, ... Windwalker IRB Coordinator RE: New Protocol Approval IRB Protocol #: 10-09-117 Protocol Title: Using Dialogue Journals toImprove Writing for English Language Learners Review Type: EXEMPT EXPEDITED ... of continuation. Failure to receive approval to continue the project prior to the expiration date will result in Termination of the protocol approval. The IRB Coordinator can give you guidance...
... conversation samples.14. Listen to the tapes and practice to take notes regularly.15. Apply all the methods above in about 2 - 3 months, and you should always practice speaking English ... English. 11. Correct faults yourself before your friends or teacher do it for you.12. Study in pair or group is the best.13. Learn by heart the rules of English grammar, new...
... LinguisticsUsing Lexical Dependency and Ontological Knowledge toImprove aDetailed Syntactic and Semantic Tagger of English Andrew FinchNiCT∗-ATR†Kyoto, Japanandrew.finch@atr.jpEzra BlackEpimenides ... automatically acquired on-tology made by clustering words in a large corpusof unannotated text.We have chosen to use hierarchical schemes forboth the automatic and manually acquired ontolo-gies ... the automatically acquired ontology, showing the word applethe clusters tend to contain a lot of noise. Rarewords can easily find themselves members of clus-ters to which they do not seem to belong,...
... 2. Technique toimprove specific problems 40 2.1. Technique for English consonants 40 2.1.1. Technique to pronounce English stop consonants 40 2.1.2. Technique to pronounce English fricative ... some techniques toimproveEnglish pronunciation to Vietnamese, the aim of the study include: - To introduce the basic theories of English and Vietnamese consonants and stress. - To find out what ... with the top teeth touching the bottom lip. Therefore, the obstruction of airstream occurs because the bottom lip and the top teeth come together. The sound /f/, /v/ are referred to as labialdental...
... story aloud to yourself Tell the story over a few times refeering to your story notes, if necessary 44 Talking with students about their listening experience after the story has been told ... time to explore thoughts feelings about story characters and events. When a storyteller is ready to examine his or her storytelling style, the teacher might make arrangements to have the storytelling ... activities, they are taught according to specific topics in order to practise and improve the speaking skill. Therefore, they have more opportunities to widen and improve English speaking skill. 3.The...