| Global English Learner Resources | |
As a global English learner, you are interested in communicating in English. American or British culture and their inflections are not so important to you because you just want to communicate in English. You may communicate with people from a number of countries and things like idioms, phrasal verbs and slang are really not that important to you. Here are some recommend resources to begin getting the most out this site for your style of English learning.
01/07/00-Setting ESL Objectives
04/13/99-Basic Business Letters
03/02/99-Global English
11/02/00-Grammar Terminology
Grammar Resources
01/12/01-English Tenses Timeline
This timeline tenses chart provides a handy visual reference sheet to English tenses and their relationship to the past, present and future. Included you will find active, passive, simple and continuous forms positioned according to their occurrence in time.
Knowing exactly what you want is half the battle and can dramatically improve your learning curve.
A guide to the basics of writing business letters including common salutations, requests and an example letter.
An introduction to the issue of the importance of the emerging "Global English" approach to English learning.
This feature presents an extract with a follow-up guide giving examples of the most important grammar terminology. By quickly reviewing this reference sheet, you can quickly brush-up your or your class' understanding of key grammar terminology, while at the same time reviewing some basic grammar concepts.
Handy one page with links to all the most important grammar resources on the site.
