This has been the most common mistake in my students’ essays this term.
Gays should have the same opportunities than heterosexual couples.
♥ We use the same as or the same…+noun+ … as before a noun or pronoun.
Gays couples should have the same opportunities as heterosexual couples.
I’d like to visit Australia one day, just the same as you.
♥ We use the same that before a clause (subject+verb)
He was wearing the same clothes that he’d had on the day before.
I hope it helps you!
I have to admit, it’s more like a confession though, that very often I post about some sites that, I am fairly certain, are not very useful to my students. The reason behind these posts is that by having them published and organised into categories in my blog I make sure they are always handy and never lost to me.
Today’s post is not for you, dear learners(forgive my selfishness), but for us, English teachers.
This site lessonstream.org, is a great site for ready-made lessons. I’ve been following Jamie Keddie ‘s blog http://www.jamiekeddie.com/ for while and knew that he was planning to create a new site with new and old- edited material. And Wow! The site is just great and very creative. I love it!
So far there are 44 ready-made lesson you can browse by Language Level, Learner Type, Time, Main Activity ( Dictation: Running Dictation, Dictogloss, Picture Dictation, Speaking, Gap-filling, Collocations, writing…), Language Aims ( adjectives, tenses, passive…)Topic ( Money, school, jokes, love, food..) and Materials
Take over is a phrasal verb which,in this context means, to assume control. Look at the cartoon. Can you see how computers are taking over our family life?
Only this morning I was listening to a song called “When love takes over” by David Guetta ft Kelly Rowland. Wanna listen to it?
Only last week I had to deal with this issue in class when one of my students asked me.
“Does the word “team” take a singular or a plural verb?” and my answer was: “Both”.
There are some singular words in British English that can take both singular or plural verbs and pronouns depending on what you want to say about them.
Singular forms are used when we see the “team” as one thing, as an impersonal unit.
The team is going to lose
Plural forms are used when the group is considered as a collection of people doing personal things like taking decisions, hoping or wanting .
The team are full of enthusiasm (referring to every member of the team)
Group nouns which can be used with both singular and plural are:
party school staff team government jury family
public club class firm the BBC comittee
“police”, on the other hand, is normally used with a plural verb
The police were not able to find anything
Mixing traditional and modern teaching? What’s the right balance? That’s a hot issue and one I haven’t yet found the answer to but I feel that there’s nothing like the interaction between teachers and students or students among themselves.
In this lesson plan Focus on Films I’ve combined both traditional teaching and new technologies. I’ve even published one exercise Film Genres that I’d rather do with my students in class with them taking an active role in their learning process. You choose but what comes below is how I definitely plan to do it with my students.
I ‘ve prepared one set of blue strips of paper with the names of famous films and another set of green coloured strips with film genres. All in all I’ve written 10 strips of paper and then placed them on my table. Students will then come up to my table and do the matching exercise using blue-tack to stick the strips on the blackboard. I’m planning to revise by showing them only the films and then only the genres.
On the other hand, there is another exercise in this lesson plan where, if I were a student, I’d definitely choose to do using a computer and I’m referring to the brainstorming exercise we normally do on the blackboard. Well, I’ve had a lot of fun ( and also wasted a lot of time ) doing this brainstorming about films with this little application called Simple Diagrams, which I highly recommend (mainly because it’s free)
It must have been sheer luck that I bumped into this cool site only last week, just when I was gathering material to use in the FILMS lesson.
This site has been nominated as one of the 50 best sites in 2010 and it contains about 12.000 film snippets that can be searched by genre, director, props, setting…etc. Isn’t it just unbelievable that you can even choose Action and under this category choose whether you want a clip with a cough or a bump or a cry? Isn’t it just as amazing that you can choose the clip by Mood; do you want something inspiring,creepy or maybe funny?
The whole lesson, designed for intermediate students, comes with Vocabulary, Reading, Listening and Writing exercises. Click HERE to do it