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By Kenneth Beare, About.com Guide to ESL since 1997

Practice English Using Twitter!

Wednesday March 11, 2009
What's Twitter you ask? Twitter is a tool that you can use to send messages of up to 140 characters to a group of followers while you also follow others. It's a great tool that works with any device that you use to connect to the Internet. The messages are short, and easy to read. It's the perfect platform to practice English structure, idioms and phrases!

I've started a new Twitter page and I'll be helping students practice their writing skills on a daily basis - except weekends of course! The time needed is short - a few minutes a day. Here's an introduction to the project.

Comments

April 4, 2008 at 8:39 pm
(1) Cristina says:

I think your idea about twitter page is great!!
Iīve read all of it and written down some expressions I didnīt know. Very interesting, go on please.

April 8, 2008 at 1:22 pm
(2) Susan says:

I didn’t know about Twitter until I read your About… email. I’ve always been glad I’m on your list. Twitter looks great; I’m going to look into more ways to use it. Thanks!

April 8, 2008 at 2:37 pm
(3) Karina says:

Thanks About.com for these english lessons, they’re so great i always read what you send me to my email ..

April 8, 2008 at 4:12 pm
(4) Perlina says:

I have read all and I noticed that I did not know those Idioms. I hope they are useful. could you add audio? because I don’t know how to pronounced for example ” hemming and hawing”

April 8, 2008 at 6:44 pm
(5) esl says:

Unfortunately, at this time I can not add audio. However, I hope to be able to do this very soon!

April 9, 2008 at 11:45 am
(6) rituwazirchand says:

interesting| may join the twitter group.Seems like a facebook where u can post anything&get in touch with friends

April 10, 2008 at 4:56 am
(7) kartik says:

my english is getting better day by day your lessons are awfully great .thank you

April 11, 2008 at 2:16 pm
(8) prinluu says:

I hope I can improve my writing skill and using idioms with Twitter page. Thanks for the new idea!

April 12, 2008 at 9:40 pm
(9) Luz Helena says:

I could not download the program, can you explain me, please. Luz Helena.

April 28, 2008 at 12:42 pm
(10) bishnu khadka says:

I think it will be very usefull to me to learn english language from this way.

June 18, 2008 at 2:26 pm
(11) Dean says:

it’s a great idea! We’ll pass the tip along to our Kantalk user, too. Thanks!

November 11, 2008 at 2:13 pm
(12) Muhyadin haji says:

Thanks alot Mr keneath,really your platform is so out of world to read and understand.i really got scores of Idoem and more from your “break of the news” of english newsletter.
Hoppe to fetch more.

Thanks alot

January 10, 2009 at 4:01 am
(13) Afsaneh says:

Thanks a lot for all the E-mails that you send. I have some grammatical questions & I want to know where I can ask them! Could you help me by that?

January 14, 2009 at 1:57 pm
(14) tartoshy says:

thank a lot , I really admire this link and I hope you support us more with how to deal types of learners in the classroom.
Regards,
Tartoshy

January 15, 2009 at 10:45 am
(15) esl says:

It’s best to ask grammar questions on the lounge at:

http://forums.about.com/ab-esl/start/?lgnF=y

March 17, 2009 at 11:53 am
(16) Maria Gonzalez says:

Incredible site! I use it on a daily basis and my adult students are getting great results from it.

April 1, 2009 at 9:34 am
(17) saad says:

thank you for mr. Kenneath

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