Let’s start working on the grammar .
Let’s continue with a bit of Oral Practice. Make sure you use the verb Prefer when you answer.
Pronunciation of some adjectives ending in -ed
If you were one of my students, you would know that one of my favourite words to use in class in EASY- sometimes I say easy peasy, but I guess it sounds the same to them. In fact, I only realized I said it so often when I saw my students looking at each other with half a smile on their faces and it got me thinking. I put two and two together and realized that, carried away by my enthusiasm, I might have been overusing the word a bit. Well, nobody is perfect! The truth is that English grammar is easy to teach and easy to understand, but pronunciation is quite another matter.
Pronunciation!!! You can only sympathise with students when after years of teaching them how to pronounce the -ed ending of regular verbs, they suddenly find words such as naked, which they automatically pronounce /neikt/. You might not believe me, but almost feel like I need to apologize and this is one of the few times when I need to say … Ok, this is not that easy!!
The thing is that some adjectives ending in -ed have a special pronunciation and the -ed is not pronounced /t/ or /d/ but /id/. Let’s have a look at them
To make matters worse, aged is pronounced | eɪdʒd | when it means years old ( my grandmother, aged 93, is a very smart person) or when it is a verb but, when it is an adejctive it is pronounced | eɪdʒid |
♥ All the young men went to fight in the war; and only the aged | eɪdʒid | and infirm remained behind.
Other adjectives ending in -ed follow the rule for the pronunciation of the -ed ending, ie, pronounced /id/ only after /d/ ot /t/.
Keep posted!
Sentence Your Dictionary: a great help
Hello everyone! I hope you have a happy Monday!!
In this blog I have published a handful of links to different dictionaries and today I want to share with you one I’ve been using quite a lot lately. Yourdictionary.com has a lot of
tools to help you understand and use a word .
It provides the user with simple and clear definitions, synonyms, quotes where the word is used, the etymology of the word…etc, but the tool I like best and the main reason why I keep coming back to this dictionary is the SEE IN A SENTENCE tool, because very often, to understand the meaning of a word you need more than the definition. Seeing how the word is used in a sentence, seeing how the word is used in a context is a great help for the non-native speaker.
I seriously wish I had so many good dictionaries for free when I first started studying English. They would have made my life so much easier!
Word of the Day: Roast and Baked
Hope you are having a great week!! I can’t complain!! Apart from a visit to the 
hospital and another one to the doctor to have my wrist bandaged I can say that , all in all , it’s been a great week so far.
I understand you might be a bit tired of reading about food , but that’s what I am teaching and that’s where my brain is focused right now. In fact, I have just found a video in youtube to add to the growing list of food related posts. Keep poted !!
Today I just want to point out the difference between these two words which are very similar and therefore raise doubts
♥Both are adjectives
♥Both mean cooked in the oven
♥Baked is used for bread, cakes and most sweet things, and also fruit and vegetables.
♥Roast means cooked with fat, and is used especially for meat and potatoes.
LinkengPark: a nice site to practise Listening
Happy Monday to you all! And no, I am not being ironic here,
I sort of “hate” Mondays like everybody else in this planet but today I am going to share a link with you that is going to help brighten your day, especially if you like English as much as I do, or if you happen not to like it so much, yes, let’s say it, I know there are some few people out there who don’t give a damn about learning this language but still…. they need to. So.. for both, here we have Linkengpark, a great site to help you improve your listening skills.
I learned about Linkengpark from the sweetest person on earth, Maria Artime who, when seeing its potential, didn’t hesitate to share it with me. I thank you María. It is really helpful! Linkengpark is a very nice site to practise Listening. It offers lots of different Podcasts (6 minute English, English at work, BBC how to, ESL stories…), Audiobooks (Pride and Prejudice, Roald Dahl ….)and Videos (English Vid, CNN Students News, Reuters…) with transcript so you can also practise pronunciation. You can choose your level, from Elementary to Advanced .
A great site which I’ll be visiting very often. I hope you do, too. 
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