10 Verbs for Body Movement

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Simple Past/Past Continuous Tense - Activity

Simple Past/Past Continuous Tense - Activity

Fill in the blanks with the correct simple past or past continuous form of the verb in the brackets.

Trouble on the Mountain

Last year, during the vacations, Roy and his family (1)________________ (be) on a holiday when something terrible (2)_________________ (happen). They (3) ______________ (stay) in a chalet high up in the mountains. Each day, they carefully (4)____________________ (plan) a trek in the mountains. They prepared carefully because Roy’s parents knew that mountains could be dangerous. So, they always (5) ____________________(take) four things with them: water, food, a good map and a mobile phone.

Early one morning, Roy and his parents (6) __________________(get) everything ready and (7) ______________________(set) out on their walk. It was a beautiful day and the sun (8)_______________________ (shine) brightly in the clear sky. But as they (9)_____________________ (walk), it (10)  ________________________ (begin) to get darker and darker. Clouds (11) _____________________ (fill) the sky and then a fog suddenly (12) _________________ (fall). The fog got thicker and thicker, and in the end, they couldn’t see the path in front of them. 

Source: Topical Grammar Practice - Scholastic

Answers:

1. Was thinking 2. Walked 3. Were turning / turned 4. Slipped 5.fell 6. Told             7. Was moving 8.heard 9.Found 10. Was                     11.was shining                         12. looked

Linking Verbs - Beautify your sentences

Linking verbs are verbs that link a subject with the rest of the sentence. They don't show any action but state. It makes your sentences beautiful that's why some of the linking verbs are given below.

Linking Verb	Examples
Is	He is brilliant
Am	I am ill
Are	They are tired
Was	It was better
Were	Sara and John were friends
Be	It may be impossible
Feel	This doesn't feel right
Look	You look scared
Smell	The eggs smells rotten
Sound	Your plan sounds nice
Taste	The cookie tastes delicious
Act	Don’t act foolish
Grow	Some couples grow old together.
Stay	Who stays happy here?
Appear	He appears upset
Prove	Speaking proved you stupid
Turn	An apple turned black
Become	become a doctor
Remain	A child remained silent
Get	it gets night at 7 p.m
Seem	it seems great

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5 free Mobile apps for ESL Learners / Teachers

Oxford English Vocab Trainer
If you are learning English for work, in preparation for academic study, or you are working towards an English language exam like TOEFL or IELTS, this is a quick and easy way to expand your vocabulary – even when your English tutor is not there. You can even access popular word lists from Oxford coursebooks to continue your studies at home.

LearnEnglish Grammar by British Council
LearnEnglish Grammar is a top interactive grammar practice app designed to help improve English grammar accuracy. The app offers 1000s of questions to help practice and reinforce your English grammar skills.

WordWeb Dictionary
The offline audio English dictionary and thesaurus with synonyms, related words, and professionally recorded pronunciations.

English Grammar & Phonetics
Written by Professors. Learn English Grammar and Phonetics. Audios, Exams, Resources & Exercises. Download free Content and Audios. Study on your Mobile. Work on your PC/Mac. Print what you need.

Cambridge English 1500 Conversation
English Conversations with many topic to talk together. This app have more than 1500 english conversations to listening and practice. Practice everyday to improve your English.

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Think Like a Real Writer - A professional writer explained

The blog emphasizes the importance of telling rather than showing in your writing. Michael J. Quinn in his book, Writing Inside and Out, explains how specific details help to clarify your writing and orient your reader.

Take a moment to recall red marks all over the pages of writing that you handed in during your school career. In addition to all of those “SP’s”, “GR’s” and “Frag’s”, do you remember the words “Be Specific” and “More details needed”? Have you at any point considered what those words implied, or why teachers repeated them so insistently?

Consider for a moment how we learn about the world in which we live. Those of you who have young babies, brothers and sisters, think for a moment about how they learn about the world around them. Learning starts before we can talk. It really starts before we even breathe. What tools do we use for learning when we are in the womb and when we first leave its safety? Our senses are our tools. They reach out and rub against raw experience. Through hot and cold, light and dark, sweet and sour, smooth and rough, loud and soft we learn what we like and what we loathe. We learn to trust and to fear. We learn about danger and safety. As we grow older, we learn language. When we can name what we trust and what we fear, we gain the illusion of control. But experience remains our prime teacher. 

“Be specific” and “More details needed”, remind you to refocus on experience. Think more about the nature of language. Consider for a moment a concrete noun, “desk”. As you read that word, some of you are thinking about your fourth-grade desk with the top that raised straight up. Others are thinking about a modern piece of office furniture, complete with computer and printer. Still others are thinking about an oak rolltop with intricate cubby holes in the upper-right hand corner. A reader will not be thinking of the same desk the writer has in mind unless the writer provides more details. The writer must be more specific. If communication is this difficult with a concrete word, consider how much more difficult it is with abstract words such as love, anger or frustration. When we write, we owe it to our readers to be as clear as possible. Clarity charges us to show not tell.

Example: Harper Lee uses the technique of showing not telling in her Pulitzer prize winning novel to Kill a mockingbird. She begins her paragraph describing Mrs. Dubose with the telling sentence “She was horrible.” Then she goes on to share the details that show her readers exactly what she means when she says “horrible”. 

“Her face was the color of a dirty pillowcase, and the corners of her mouth glistened with wet, which inched like a gladder down the deep groves enclosing her chin. Old age liver spots dotted her cheeks, and her pale eyes had black pinpoint pupils. Her hands were knobby, and the cuticles were grown up over her fingernails. Her bottom plate was not in” and her upper lip protruded; from time to time she would draw her nether lip to her upper plate and carry her chin with it. This made the wet move faster.”

DID YOU KNOW?
Learning involves taking risks. Take a risk. Share your write up with at least one other reader. Have the reader answer about what details does Lee use to show that Mrs.Dubose is horrible?

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Important Adverbs With Their Meaning

What is the vocabulary? and why is it important. Click here to read it.

IELTS Speaking Test Tips

It is never too late to learn and it is never too late to admire those who deserve it. Believe me you deserve the best but for that, working hard is a condition. 

When it comes to speaking especially for IELTS, it is not grammar, vocabulary, phonetics, or knowledge which plays more than your emotions, face expressions and confidence. The more you are nervous, the more mistakes you make. Improving your language does matter but along with boosting your confidence.

Many students take reading quotes or listening to motivational speech for granted. This is where they make it wrong. Anything that could drive your mind to studying or better confidence runs well in this scenario. 
Quotes and motivational speeches may be search on https://www.youtube.com

Tips For IELTS 7+ Band:

IELTS Speaking test is to judge your basic skills of conversing in English. The more you speak the better judgement examiner makes which results in good bands. Apart from confidence, remember these points to get 7+ bands.

1. Never say only YES or NO.
2. Give your answer as long as possible.
3. Try to show him as much as you can.
4. Short phrases are best in this scenario.
5. Don't add up unnecessary information.
6. Don't pretend like a native. Speech naturally.
7. Sound as if you were talking to your brother.
8. To get a good band, Learn to explain a life in general.

9. When you make a small mistake, simply say sorry and repeat the sentence correctly.

10. Ask a question if you don't understand. Don't answer without understanding essence of the question.

If you want to practise your speaking, take help from someone you are not friend of. If you are familiar with one who helps you for practice, you will not know how to answer stranger person and examiner would be stranger for you. Use internet to find who are going to appear in IELTS and ask for help you where you can help them either.

IELTS is jointly owned by the British Council, IDP: IELTS Australia and Cambridge Assessment English. So go for more info. to the following sites.

British Council:

https://takeielts.britishcouncil.org/take-ielts/prepare/free-ielts-practice-tests/speaking

International Education Specialists (IDP):

https://www.idp.com/indonesia/ielts/speaking-test/sample-questions/?lang=en

Cambridge Assessment English:

https://www.cambridgeenglish.org/exams-and-tests/ielts/preparation/

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5 Best Resources for ESL Teachers

Teachers are always looking for new new ideas and for that they love having found resources. Here we go with 5 sites for free resources for English teachers.

1. Cambridge Webinars for Teachers
Cambridge English webinars is a great way for teachers to stay up to date with the latest developments. The webinars provide you with invaluable information about Cambridge exams, and cover a wide spectrum of subjects, including effective teaching methods, tips to improve student engagement and online professional development to help you develop your career. Sign up!

2. IELTS Podcast
IELTSPodcast not only have some great tutorials about the IELTS writing section but an extensive vocabulary guide.

3. BBC Teaching English
BBC Teaching English offers a lot of resources, including many that focus on teacher development. Access an ELT research database, read research papers on teaching English.

4. Youtube
There are myriad of vidoes related to English available on this site. Many teachers and instructor run a channel where lots of ideas can be extracted to use in the class.

5. Pearson English Resource
Looking for some new materials to use in the classroom? Choose from a wide range of topics and access free classroom activities, worksheets and lesson plans to keep your students fully engaged.

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How to Write A Book Review

What is a book review?
It is a form of criticism in which a book is merely described or analyzed based on content, style, and merit.

How To Write A Book Review:
1. State essential information, like title, author, kind of book.
2. Introduce any review by a summary of the book. Keep it simple and short.
3. Break down the summary. Show the most important aspect of the book.
3. Don't retell the entire story.
4. Decide what the author tried to show.
5. Point out the strengths and weaknesses.
6. Discuss the style of writing and cohesion, clarity, and use of precise words.
7. You may challenge the opinions and explain why you disagree with them.
8. Analyze whether the book suited its intended audience.
9. It should be between 50 to 1500 words.
10. Find similar books and make comparison.
11. Rate the book “out of five/ten” route.

Remember that the way to create a book review depends on the genre. Different genres mean different ways adopted to present it. Fiction and Non-fiction books are reviewed differently.
For an idea, read real book reviews, Visit Here 

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5 Methods of Teaching English Language

English has more than 400 millions native speakers, and 750 millions non-native speakers. It is only a survey conducted by different institutions. Accurate figure of E-L speakers around the world cannot be made definite because numbers are increasing every day. The more time passes, the more speakers join the circle.
There are countless number of methods to teach a language and it can also be created for a specific situation. Some of the methods are given below.

1. The Direct Method
This method is used in teaching foreign languages in which learners are refrained from using their mother tongue and use only the target language. In this method, experience and expression, words and phrases, idioms and meanings, rules and performances through the teachers' body and mental skills are used to demonstrate the real meaning. it focuses on vocabulary building.

2. Audio-lingual Method

This method is same as 'the direct method' but is used to focuses on specific grammar teachings. It emphasizes the teaching of listening and speaking before reading and writing.

3. The Lexical Approach

This method focuses on the idea that, rather than have students memorize lists of vocabulary, they would learn commonly used phrases. They are made able to produce lexical chunks e.g. by the way, out of my mind etc.

4. Task Based Language Learning

The idea of this approach is task completion. Tasks are set by the teacher and students are expected to draw on their pre-existing knowledge of English to complete the task with as few errors as possible.

5. The Grammar Translation Method

In this method, students learn grammatical rules and then apply those rules by translating sentences between the target language and the mother language. It has a major flaw that translating whole text or word for word will not enable learners to speak or create spontaneous output.

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What Writing Piece? Articles VS Blog Posts

Articles and blogging (blog posts) are not the same things but sometimes used interchangeably. 

Let's see what are the differences between an article and a blog post?

An article:

1. An article is made in any traditional or digital publication and has nothing to do with reverse chronological order.

2. An article conveys information, facts, news and written in a straightforward, objective tone.

3. An article is usually written in third-person, and don’t encourage readers to participate.

4. An article tends to explore a topic in more depth.

5. An article is written with clear and structured sentences.

A blog post
1. A blog post is made in a blog in reverse chronological order.

2. It is written in the first person and sometimes personal in nature.

3. A blog post invites readers to comment, participate, get involved.

4. Blog posts are in an informal language and may also use short paragraphs.

5. Blog posts may focus on evolving ideas.

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Usage of "Have" As A State Verb

"Have" is much more important than thought by the students of English language. To make your fluency and accuracy come true, one needs to clear the concept of the verb. 'Have'. What goes first are the forms of the verb.

Have - Had - Had - Having - Has.

Some of the most important ones are given below.

Have:

It is used to talk about;

1. Illness (with a name of).

e.g, He has a fever.

2. Ownership.

e.g, We have a car.

3. Hold.

e.g, Who has my mobile?

4. Quality.

e.g, He didn't have tall height.

5. Relationship.

e.g, He is my brother.

Roman:

"Have" ki English me bohat ehmiyat hai. English bolne me thek aur taizi use usi wakht mumkin hai jab 'Have' ko sahi se samjha jaye. Sab se pehle "Have" verb ki forms dekh lein.
Have - Had - Had - Having - Has.
"Have" ke both saray istemal hain jin me se kuch intehai ehem yahan diye ja rahe hain.

Have:

Iska istemal in chezen ke liyein hota hai;
1. Bimari (ka naam).
e.g, Use bukhar hai.

2. Malkiyat.
e.g, Humare pas car hai.

3. Ke pas hona.
e.g, Mera mobile kis ke pas hai.

4. Khasiyat.
e.g, Uska qad lamba nahi tha.

5. Rishta (ka name).
e.g, Wo mera bhai hai.

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