... Second Edition Writing Better English FORESLLEARNERS This page intentionally left blank Second Edition Writing Better English FORESLLEARNERS ED SWICK New York Chicago San Francisco ... anyone else for any inaccuracy, error or omission, regardless of cause, in the work or for any damages resulting therefrom McGraw-Hill has no responsibility for the content of any information accessed ... Set a standard of quality for yourself and conform to it Use the Answer Key not only to check your work but also to find suggestions for how to write appropriate sentences for any of the exercises...
... demanding for the students Furthermore, the teachers can use the information gained at this time to make specific lesson plans for the remainder of the listening lesson on that particular topic Activities ... advance what the listening passage concerns The four kinds of pre -listening activities help to activate students' prior knowledge, build up their expectations for the coming information and sometimes ... Pictures Before Listening I have used this many times with younger learners because they are good at reading pictures If you want to check whether the students can name some of the items in the listening...
... learning-based approach Therefore, we constructed a large-scale tense/aspect corpus from Lang-8,3 a social networking service forlearners of foreign languages ESLlearners post their writing ... both sentences, we use the feature main-clause for the verb phrase pours, and sub-clause for the verb phrase rains along with the feature conj:when for both verb phrases Regarding p-tmod, we extract ... errors We used Stanford Parser 1.6.9 for generating syntactic features and tense/aspect tagging 4.2 Classifiers Because we want to know the effect of using global context information with CRF,...
... for breakfast./The boys want to have cereal for breakfast My sister can be home by 6:00 P.M./My sister wants to be home by 6:00 P.M They can travel to California./They want to travel to California ... Gutierrez can carry the groceries for her./Mr Gutierrez wants to carry the groceries for her You stay in bed all day I try hard My brother is a little late We find a room for the night Ms Brown gets ... be kissed by her Is the fence being built by Max? The map was forgotten by her brother Unit Subjunctive Mood 8-1 8-2 10 She demands Forrest return home by 5:00 P.M The man suggests you wear a shirt...
... McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc Click here for terms of use 116 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Formed with no- Formed with not Positive Form none no one nothing nowhere never* ... two forms One form begins with no- (except for never and neither), and the other consists of not followed by another word When these words are not negative, they have a special positive form ... kind of Whose parents ? What sort of man would ? 114 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Andi told me what It’s hard to believe how The accident happened when How much ?...
... millennium G There are special rules for abbreviations for time B.C and A.D are always capitalized B.C is used for eras or years that occurred before Christ A.D is used for eras or years that occurred ... Companies, Inc Click here for terms of use 100 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Note that words that end in -ful, -less, and -ing use more and most to form the comparative ... that the subject—not the prepositional phrase—determines the form of the verb 94 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Singular Subject ϩ Plural Object of the Preposition...
... English Grammar forESLLearners When you use an adverb that shows that an action is done frequently (often, sometimes, always, usually, every day, etc.), you should use the habitual form of the ... change as well Following are the irregular past tense forms of some commonly used verbs: 30 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Infinitive Past Tense Infinitive Past Tense to ... Just like other perfect tenses, it has two formations: one for a habitual or frequent action and one for an action in progress or incomplete The structure for a habitual action is will ϩ have ϩ past...
... Companies, Inc Click here for terms of use 10 Practice Makes Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Just like nouns, adjectives can follow the predicate They most often come after forms of the verbs ... add to or for before the indirect object noun or pronoun The indirect object becomes the object of the preposition to or for Place the prepositional phrase after the direct object For example: ... Perfect: English Grammar forESLLearners Subject Pronoun Direct or Indirect Object Prepositional Phrase I you he she it we they me you him her it us them after me behind you for him from her in it...
... say about Listening: Research Implications for the Classroom Foreign Language Annals 17 (1984) 331 Oxford, R., Research Update on L2 Listening System 21 (1993) 205 Wipf, J., Strategies for Teaching ... research that listening comprehension is quite a complex process of receving information, analyzing information then applying the information It should not be denied that, much listening indeed ... have an opportunity to develop specific competence framework forESL students for each skill: listening, speaking, reading and writing for university students in other studies References [1] [2]...
... Adult ESLlearners have countless daily opportunities forlistening and speaking in English as they interact as workers, family members, community members, and classroom learners Some listening ... This packet of listening and speaking activities contains just a few of the hundreds of activities available for classroom instruction The activities are directly tied to two of the listening/ speaking ... purpose forlistening is identified and shared with learners the listening “text” is supported by visual clues the listening activity requires a response that o indicates comprehension of the listening...
... valid only for attendance in the school district or institution identified on the authorization 42 • • ESL Learners: A Guide forESL Specialists Provincial Funding forESL Students for whom ESL funding ... competence.3 for more information, see Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages, Inc ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students Alexandria, VA: TESOL Inc 1997 ESL Learners: A Guide forESL Specialists ... Assessment for English Language Learners: Practical Approaches for Teachers (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1996), p 77 Analytic Oral Language Scoring Rubric • • • • • • 20 ESL Learners: A Guide for ESL...