We sneaked into the school’s darkest classroom. We shut the door, made sure the wooden blinds were securely closed, turned off the light, switched on a single torch and began studying Slender Man themed conditional sentences.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/204034371/Unconditionally-Slender
So much fun. 🙂
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Lesson Plan Ideas:
http://www.eds-resources.com/edcommas.htm
-This lesson plan is designed for junior high and high school students on identifying and applying commas correctly in sentences.
http://www.myenglishteacher.net/usingcommas.html
– Discusses the importance of commas
*After introducing commas to students, we use sentence strips and elbow pasta to identify where students need to use commas correctly.
Videos:
http://www.brainpopjr.com/search/?keyword=commas
– This provides you with two videos on commas (with clauses/ with lists and adjectives)
– These two videos explains the correct ways to use commas
The final lecture is a recap, with some long-term predictions for English from McWhorter. The predictions are cool, and I won’t relate them here, but leave them for him to explain on the recording – which I highly recommend. This is the second time I’ve listened to them, and they are well worth the time. Anyway, I’ll combine my thoughts on the second last lecture with the last one here, as I don’t have all that much to say.
Texting, and all other forms of digital communication, is the development of a casual, informal style of written English. It’s not the disintegration of language any more than casual conversations and friendly chat were. I think most people recognize this, apart from the message board complainers and Andy Rooney who seem to think language reflects some sort of unchanging standard.
So, explains McWhorter, there are the four types…
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Celestine Chua
Here is a mistake that is made a lot, so please have a good look at the difference between kind of and kinds of. When you speak about kind of with more than one thing, you need to use kinds of with an s. If the thing that is described is more than one, you also need to put an s after this word, too. For example: I have different kinds of pens.
Let’s study a few examples:
What kind of pen do you use? I use different kinds.
What kind of fruit do you like? Oh, I like many kinds of fruits.
Another example:
This cafe has the kind of design that I like.
More than one kind of design was used in the new museum.
We get all kinds of children at our nursery school: quiet children…
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When you say there are plenty of cats in the street, it means there are enough cats, or more than enough (= too many).
If you say that you have plenty of money in your bank account, you’re in a good position. It means you have enough money.
If you go on a picnic and you’ve taken plenty of food, it means you won’t be hungry.
So plenty means enough or as much as you need.
Please note you can use plenty with the singular and the plural. So with one thing or with many things.
See for yourself what the difference is:
Singular: There is plenty of flour in the cupboard.
Plural: There are plenty of pencils in the drawer.
By the way, there is an idiom that says: “plenty more fish in the sea” or “there are plenty of fish in the sea.” When do you say this?…
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Students often complain that the way people speak in the street isn’t the same as the way they learn to do in class. So in this post I just tried to think what words and expressions I’d use to invite someone out. In the most natural/informal way possible..
Obviously you could go for the standard question ‘Would you like to go to the cinema tonight?’. Nothing wrong with it, but how about trying one of these alternatives which sound a bit more ‘informal’?
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English by Luka 