Teaching students how to use video at home
One of the best ways to take advantage of video in the ESL classroom is to offer students a host of techniques that can be used outside...
Verbs in the Universe of Discourse: Lesson 04: Making questions, making negatives
Here's a new video from the Verbs in the Universe of Discourse series, this one about how to make questions and negatives in English....
Verbs in the Universe of Discourse: Lesson 03: Pronouns as Verbal Prefixes
Hey. Lesson 03 here of Verbs in the Universe of Discourse. This time I discuss the pronoun, not as a separate entity, but rather as a...
Verbs in the Universe of Discourse: Lesson 02: One / Two / Three, Simple Verb Conjugation
Hello again. Here you've got Lesson 02 of the Verbs in the Universe of Discourse series: One / Two / Three, Simple Verb Conjugation....
Verbs in the Universe of Discourse: Lesson 01: All verbs in English are compound verbs
Hey all. As promised, here is Lesson 01 in the series of videos that accompany the ebook "Verbs in the Universe of Discourse". I do hope...
Verbs in the Universe of Discourse: Training video 00, Introduction
Hey all. So, still in the process of migrating material onto the blog from older attempts at the blog on other sites. On the other hand,...
English pronunciation for the ESL learner
By using a comprehensive approach towards teaching English pronunciation, the teacher can create a basis for many of the tasks in the ESL...
Pronunciation: Is or Is not
Hey all. Allow me a rhetorical convention here: I can not overemphasize the importance of pronunciation as a basic part of your ESL...
Sentence structure and substitution techniques in language learning
Most languages have a basic structure that can be recognized, learned and taken advantage of when learning to speak them. This structure...
Challenges in large ESL classes
A challenge is a difficulty that stimulates the person who faces it. A large class is more difficult to define. This could be from six to...