Reporting Verbs in English

Reporting Verbs that are followed by that: Examples: Direct Speech: "The report needs to be edited" Reported Speech:  He said the report needed to be edited. Reporting Verbs: He found that the report needed editing. Direct Speech: "I deserve a second chance." Reported Speech: He said he...

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Speaking Phrases Unit 7

Write a sentence using your assigned phrase.We should probably...Don't you think we ought to...Let's just...It seems to me...Look at it this way...If we...then...If we were...--------------------------------------ELENALook at it this way, I´m sure you would like to know the truth about what happened.BERTAIt seems to me easier to go to work than stay at home.JOSE D.Don't you think we ought to buy tickets...

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English Vocabulary Unit 7

Quizlet Games behind bars in prison colleague co-worker fundamental an essential part, basic get away with not be caught or punished when you have done something wrong illegal against the law imprison put in jail legitimate lawful,...

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Incorporate Writing and Vocabulary into Class Wiki

Creating the wiki for my classroom was easy, the harder part was figuring out how to incorporate it into my class.  The first way I used it was to post lesson vocabulary, grammar explanations and resources.  Then I began having students post their writing.  But it was still not achieving...

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Aprendiendo Ingles con Canciones

En estos videos del autor Jason R. Levine, con nombre artistico de Fluency MC usan el rap para mejorar el ingles.  Atraves de canciones el estudiante puede desarrollar sus destresas de gramatica, vocabulary, listening y pronunciacion de una manera divertida. Por ejemplo tiene uno que muestra la diferencia entre "make or do." Lo bueno es que tiene subtitulos de colores, poniendo enfasis en las...

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Los mejores sitios en Youtube para aprender ingles

English Lessons 4U - la profesora tiene un sentido del humor medio raro, pero sus clases son muy claras y especificas. English with Jennifer - muy buena profesora. Da muy buenos ejemplos y intenta ilustrarlos lo mejor que se puede en un video.  Aqui os dejo un ejemplo sobre gerundios e infinitivos. Selva Ingles - muy buen sitio si estas empezando con el ingles pues la profesora hace...

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Increase Your English Students Reading Confidence

Increase their reading confidence as well as their English skills. There is no greater motivator than success. As part of my reading project I am exploring the use of leveled readers in the acquirement of English.  I have been using them since the start of this academic year.  At first I was unsure how it was going to be received by my students, especially my adult classes. But I spoke...

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How to Set Up a Class Wiki

To set up your class Wiki you need to choose what platform you will use.  There are several free ones. WikiMatrix is a great online matrix that lets you compare all the wikis available depending on what your needs are. Or you can click here for a comparison of the different wiki providers. I used wikispaces.com because when I started it was the one I knew more about. To start I signed...

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3 Sitios que necesitas para aprender ingles

Hay muchos recursos en internet para aprender inglés algunos gratis otros que cobran. Algunos valen la pena y otros no. Estos tres me gustan mucho por diferentes razones. Spanish Dict Este sitio está muy bien si apenas estas comenzando a aprender inglés. Me encanta porque tiene muchas opciones la que más me gusto es la de Aprender inglés con videos. También me gusta que te tienes que inscribir,...

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Wordpress Better Option for Blog Privacy

Wordpress Since privacy is important to my English learning students I decided to look into Wordpress.  The one thing that had led me away from Wordpress in the past was that you couldn't add your own template, unless you got a paid membership which is not cheap.  If you are using it as a business blog, it would be worth it, but for your class, it's not.  Since the free templates available...

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Bloggger for English Class Not Really Private

Blogger Well after having spent time trying to figure out how to make my English class Blog on Blogger private I came to find out that it's not really private.  In the settings, as I wrote on Setting up a Blog... you can make the selection so that only readers you enter are able to read your blog.  Well, in reality in Blogger it is not really accurate.  The truth is, is that people...

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Go For Your Dreams

Source: justfindit4u.com via NextStepU on Pinter...

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Opportunities for Blended Learning

I like this infographic because the idea of doing a Blog and Wiki came from trying to explore blended learning. I think there are a lot of possibilities for blended learning. Education is changing. People's living situations are not what they used to be. People are looking for educational opportunities...

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Teachers Are Using Blogs and Wikis

35% Have students and/or instructor-run blogs  22% Are involved in creating or maintaining Wikis. From trying out both,so far, I have gotten a lot more out of the blog than the wiki. It makes me wonder why more Teachers are using blogs than wikis? What has your experience been with Blogs...

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Work Vocabulary

Exercises and Games catch on (v.) become popular; understand come up with (v.) to think of; to produce. an idea / a plan / a suggestion etc. cut back on (v.) reduce figure out (v.) find the solution to (a problem or question) or understand the meaning...

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Mysteries Vocabulary

Practice and Games devoted dedicated document record in detail evidence information and facts that help prove something incident a single distinct event witness someone who sees an event and reports what happened authority an expert whose views are...

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