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The verb 'to get' is used in many senses in English and can be confusing at times. Here is a list of the top ten uses of 'to get' with simple explanations and example sentences. Of course, these are not all the senses of 'to get'. In fact, there are many phrasal verbs with 'to get'. This list is meant to give intermediate level learners the main senses of this important verb.
There are five different types of adverbs. This feature explains each of the five adverbs types, adverb spelling and adverb placement, as well as exceptions to the rules.
"The Twisted Doors" is an excellent contextual language learning package for native English speakers wanting to learn Spanish or French which may also be used to provide contextual learning to native Spanish or French speakers.
This guide provides a overview of phrasal verbs including a discussion of separable and inseparable phrasal verbs.
Here is a guide to the four basic types of pronouns: subject, object, possessive and demonstrative. This overview provides a simple introduction for beginners or a quick review for other level students.
It's the new language going round the Earth - Texting. What is it? Well, it's those acronyms such as 'URT1' (Translation: You are the one) which young people (and some old) are using when sending SMS messages, speaking in chat rooms or sending e-mail. Here is a resource for English learners that provides a definition and an explanation in simple English.
This Special English Dictionary contains about 1,500 words and makes an excellent vocabulary goal for intermediate level learners.
Two new vocabulary quizzes focusing on people. The first is a quiz about people and the role they plan in our lives. The second about people and their character.
If you are a business English teacher, this book is a highly welcome resource that provides everything needed to successfully include the Internet into lesson plans.
Does the way you speak English affect what people think about you? The answer is most definitely 'yes'. This article focuses on the role pronunciation and dialect plays in the way English is spoken.
Students read about various teen problems and then use modal verbs of deduction to understand the problem in groups. Students follow-up by offering advice on what should be done to resolve the various problems.
Fill in the blank with the proper term from the arts and entertainment world.
You might have noticed that the homepage has changed styles. The homepage is now a 'blog'. Here is an introduction to the advantages of using blogs and feed readers for English learners and teachers.
The IELTS exam is one of the most popular international exams for academic qualifications in English (similar to the TOEFL). This guide points you to all the FREE resources available on the Internet to help you prepare for the exam.
I've got to be honest, I sometimes throw around terms like 'base form of the verb', 'reported speech' and 'phrasal verb' as if there were common, everyday words. Here's a quick quiz you can do with the class to check if you they really do understand.
Guest Article by John Baker: How effective is group work, and what are some of the strategies we should be using to make sure group / pair work makes for effective learning time?
Guest Article by John Baker: An interesting look at the dynamics of using argumentation in the classroom with a large number of example activities providing activity description and a short discussion of the outcome of each activitiy.
Guest Lesson Plan by John Baker: The first part of the lesson uses collaborative methods in an oral fluency and grammatical accuracy activity where students use deductive reasoning to discover the rules associated with past simple construction. The second part of the lesson is an oral fluency exercise which utilizes the past simple tense and apologies to focus on empathy and dialogical reasoning.
Guest Lesson Plan by John Baker: The lesson focuses on a story about a medical student who was badly injured in a car accident when a drunken driver hit her. During the lesson, students work collaboratively in the pre and while reading stages focusing on comprehension activities surrounding the text.
There are a number of alternate forms used with the conditional. This features focuses on variations in standard conditional sentences.
Tic-Tac-Toe games are a fun way for students to practise their English while enjoying some competition and reviewing. Three versions are included: Conditional Forms, Question Forms, Time Expressions.
Understanding poetry in any language is challenging, here is basic introduction to poetic devices used in poetry written in English (as well as other languages).
This intermediate level lesson focuses on introducing and / or reviewing defining and non-defining relative clauses. Exercises include a recognition and punctuation drill as well as a text expansion exercise.
This upper level conversation lesson uses statistics as a starting point for students to interpret information and draw their own conclusions. This lesson is especially useful to encourage students to not only repeat information they read, but develop their own opinions.
These vocabulary quizzes focus on important colloquial 'pair phrases' such as 'by and large', 'by and large', etc.
This review quiz touches on a wide variety of past tenses forms and is ideal for upper intermediate to advanced level review.
This review quiz touches on a wide variety of future tenses forms and is ideal for upper intermediate to advanced level review.
This lesson uses an imaginary biography to get students asking questions and speaking about completed accomplishments (present perfect) and duration of activity (present perfect continuous) in contrast to the simple past.
If there is one thing that young English learners and ESL classes have in common around the world, it's their passion for playing video games. Taking cue from this passion for video games, this lesson is devoted to getting them to talk about video games - but in English!
A number of quizzes on this site are interactive and difficult to print out. Now, you can go to this page to print out these quizzes for in class use.
Certain verbs are followed by certain prepositions. Minor mistakes made in the choice of these prepositions is quite common, even among advanced level students. Check your accuracy with these advanced level quizzes.