Ice Breaking: Hangout With Monkey
A boy with a monkey on his shoulder was walking down the road when he passed a policeman who said, "Now, now young lad, I think you had better take that monkey the zoo." The next day, the boy was walking down the road with the monkey on his shoulder again, when he passed the same policeman. The policeman said, Read More: Ice Breaking: Teacher's Pest "Hey there, I thought I told you to take that monkey to the zoo!” "I did sir, today I'm taking him to the cinema", the boy answered. Adopted from Have a Laug…
Ice Breaking: Teacher's Pest
It is July. The sun is in the sky. It is very hot. Catro is tired of class. He wants to be at canteen. He can not sit in his seat. He can not stop talking. While the teacher writes on the board, Catro gets up and talks to a friend. The teacher, Mrs. Zootec, hears the noise and says, "Catro, sit down and be quiet", Catro sits down. Read More: Classrool Language: Starting Class Mrs. Zootec continues with the lesson. Catro gets up and talks to another friend. "Sit down and be quiet", says Mrs. Zootec. She is very annoyed …
English Presentation Skills
To be able to do a presentation effectively in English, you will need to learn some skills and the appropriate expressions. The skills in English presentation cover your ability to open and close the presentation, signal the different parts of the talk, use presentation aids, and handle questions effectively. The following slide will help you to understand the stages so that you increase the ability to make presentations
Personal Letters
Personal letters are generally written to people who you know in your social or family life such as friends from school, pen pals or family members. Personal letters are great because you can be casual and conversational, writing in a talkative, chatty manner. You can even use slang or abbreviations. Personal letters fall into a number of subcategories such as Apologies letter, Thank you letter, Personal reference letter, Congratulations letter, Invitations letter, and Condolences letter. They differ from formal types in that they can be…
Classroom Language: During The Lesson
Classroom language can be an invaluable way of promoting English as real communication, student involvement in the lesson, and active language learning skills. According to Doff, Teach English: A training course for teachers ( 1988), most of the language we need for organizing the class consists of simple expressions which can be used again and again. Getting everyone’s attention Listen to me, please Be quiet/Quiet down, please Silent, please Can I have your attention, please? Could you all listen to me, please? Would you …
Classroom Language For Students
Classroom language is a good beginning step for encouraging students to feel comfortable in a foreign language and for them to begin to “think” in that language. The goal is to get students to react in English, rather than in mother tongue. The more times they use English, the comfortable they will be. Here are some useful phrases you can encourage your students to say English 1. Permission Can I come in? Can I go out? Can I borrow _______________ ? Can I change seats? Can I go to the toilet/restroom Can you repeat that, please? C…
Classroom Language: Ending The Class
The goal of an English teacher is to use as much of the target language as possible. One of the most frequent ways that language is used in the daily routines refers to classroom language. Here are useful phrases that are often used to end the lesson. Feel free to use these or other that you find. 1. Not time to stop The bell hasn't gone yet. There are still two minutes to go. We still have a couple of minutes left. The lesson doesn't finish till five past. Your watch must be fast. We seem to have finished early. We have…
Classroom Language: Starting The Class
Classroom language is the routine language that is used on a regular basis in classroom. Knowing this language reduces the amount that students are forced to use their mother tongue and increases the amount of the target language they are using; it makes the language classroom environment more authentic. 1. Greeting Good morning/afternoon, everybody. Hello, everyone. Hello there, Anggie. How are you today? How are you getting on? How's life? How are things with you? Are you feeling better today, Santi? How are you this morn…
Question Tags
Question tags are short questions used at the end of a sentence. We form a question tag with an auxiliary verb and a pronoun Functions and examples 1. We use tag questions to confirm information. This meal is horrible, isn't it? That film was fantastic, wasn't it? 2. We use tag questions when we are already sure of the answer and just want confirmation (falling intonation with the tag question). 3. We use tag questions to check information. You haven't got a piece of paper, have you? You don't know whe…
Quizzes and Crosswords
The quiz plays an important role in motivating students to work hard for gaining more knowledge. Lets see how well you know English. This should be interesting... Crosswords Nationalities Professions Quizzes Telling The Time WH-Questions Personal Pronoun Simple Present Tense Present Continuous Tense Quiz - Adjectives ‘ –ing’ vs ‘-ed’
Direct and Indirect Speech
There are two ways to convey a message of a person, or the words spoken by a person to other person. We may quote the actual words of the speaker. This method is called Direct Speech. We may report what he said without quoting his exact words. This method is called Indirect Speech or Reported Speech. Rule For The Change of Pronouns Pronouns of the First Person in the Reported Speech are changed in indirect Speech to the same person as the subject of the Reporting Verb. Pronouns of the Second Person i…
Offering things and service
It is common that English speakers make offers in conversations in order to be polite and helpful. When they do so they use these expressions: Offering Shall I (verb1)……….? Would you like me to (Verb1)………..? Would you like ………? Accepting an Offer Oh yes, I’d love to. That sounds nice. That’s very kind of you. Oh, thank you. Yes, please Refusing an Offer I’m sorry I can’t. I have to … Oh, I’d love to, but I don’t think I can’t. It’s all right. I can.......
Expressions Of Greetings & Leave Takings
In our daily life, we often need to greet someone, to introduce ourselves and other person and to express thanking. That’s why you need to learn this unit. It will be beneficial for you to get along well with people around you, either today or later when you get into the world of work. Formal Greetings Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Hello, how are you? Responses Hello. Hello, good afternoon. Good evening. I’m fine. Thank you. Very well, thank you. Informal Greetings Hi, how’s life? What’s news? How’…
Introduction to Memo writing
A memo should be between 150 and 200 words long and requires the following information: • Who is the memo to? • Who is the memo from? • What is the memo about? • What is the date? This information should be positioned next to the appropriate headings as in the example below. A job title may be added after the name of the sender (and/or recipient). Memo To: From: Subject: Date: ------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------…
How To Make Fried Banana
INGREDIENTS : 1 ripe black-skinned plantain or 4 small finger banana (make sure that the banana is sweet) 1 egg 1 tsp. sugar 6 Tbs. flour water a pinch of salt vegetable oil for deep frying STEPS/INSTRUCTION : Place flour in a deep mixing bowl. Make a well in the middle of the flour, and add egg, sugar and salt. Add water little by little. Whisk vigorously until batter is evenly smooth for coating and not too thin. If it is too thin, add more flour. Peel plantain or banana and cut in half lengthwise and then cut again with 4-…
Offering Something
Offering Something Responses Would you like Some drinks/food? Would you care for coffee? Why do not you have Some mint tea? How about having fun? May I offer you ...? Yes, please No, thank I do not drink coffee Thank you, I'd love to Oh, no
Consulting
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Outdoor Idioms
Idioms are a type of formulaic language. Formulaic language consists of fixed expressions which you learn and understand as units rather than as individual words. Idioms are fixed combinations of words whose meaning is often difficult to guess from the meaning of each individual word. You will also sound more natural and fluent if you can use idioms in everyday conversation or informal writing. Be careful not to use too many, though!
Preposition of place
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Consultings
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