English GRAMMAR

Descriptive grammar(definition #1) refers to the structure of a language as it is actually used by speakers and writers.

Prescriptive grammar(definition #2) refers to the structure of a language as certain people think it should be used.

This is a vocabulary resource book for teachers of teenage and adult learners at upper-intermediate and lower-advanced levels.

15 units with answers

Teaching writing, TB

Why teach writing?
- Reading Improvement
- Required Communication
- Influence Others
- Thought Clarification ...

Things you can do to improve your students, TB

Children learn the letter by its sound and not its name

- Each sound has an action

- These sounds are introduced in groups of letters that sound different from each other to avoid confusion, eg: s, a, t, p, i ,n

 

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Teaching Vocabulary, TB

The importance of teaching vocabulary items

1- to provide students with a tool that will allow them to become independent readers.
2- to pronounce and understand new words they encounter as they read.
3- to qualify them to communicate with their teacher in English.
4- in reading, writiting , and discussion lessons teachers are required to introduce new vocabulary items .

Therefore, they have to have the suffifficient skill to present those new words.