Monday, 10 November 2008

What is your opinion about using blogs to learn English?

I believe that it is a good way to learn English because is funner; I enjoyed the experience of learning English . I realized that the use of blogs is very useful to the students because they will have the opportunity to learn from their own mistakes.

Summary about parts of speech.

One of the classes into wich words are divided according to their grammar, such as noun, pronouns, verb, adjetive, adverbs, conjunctions, prepositions, interjection.
Examples:

-This is my dog . he lives in my house. We live in chillán. (Noun)
-I was very surprised that they gave me such a lovely gift. (Pronouns)
-She likes basketball.(Verb)
-My mother knows your mother. (Adjetive)
-She ate too fast. (Adverbs)
-I can either take music or art next semester. (Conjunctions)
-We went to school on monday. (Prepositions)
-Ouch! that hurts! hi! how are you? well, I don't know. (Interjection)

10 websites( parts of speech)

1)http://www.arts.uottawa.ca/writcent/hypergrammar/partsp.html
2) http://eslus.com/LESSONS/GRAMMAR/POS/pos.htm
3) http://web2.uvcs.uvic.ca/elc/StudyZone/330/grammar/parts.htm
4) http://quizlet.com/set/176036/
5) http://www.cftech.com/BrainBank/OTHERREFERENCE/GRAMMARANDPUNCTUATION/PartsSpeech.html
6) http://www.ucalgary.ca/UofC/eduweb/grammar/course/speech.htm
7) http://www.shared-visions.com/explore/English/parts.html
8) http://www.englishclub.com/grammar/parts-of-speech_1.htm
9) http://www.eduplace.com/tales/help.html
10) http://www.eslflow.com/grammarlessonplans.html

Why grammar is important for a EFL Teacher?

It is important because Teachers of English have to know the language that they will learn. Grammar is the essential tool for teaching a second language also you have to know about punctuation, pronunciation, etc. The correct use of grammar is what that your students required for learning well.

Quiz 2

Answers:

1. If she comes to visit.
2. He would help the poor more.
3. They would have moved to Santa Monica.
4. If you leaves her.
5. We will have to go inland.
6. You will get a shock.
7. If you had asked me for help.
8. If you don't speak clear.
9. If she had been in your position.
10. If you had discovered what he had known.

Quiz 1

Answers:

1. We will go to lunch
2. If I have a lot of money.
3. I take her to school by car.
4. I would have bought you some flowers.
5. He is going to pass the exam.
6. If I were you
7. If he not work harder.
8. If she had stayed.
9. If they had had the money.

Tic-Tac-Toe

I found the Tic-Tac-Toe very interesting for teaching English to the students specially children enjoy games a lot. Conditional tenses are difficult to teach even in some cases bored so, you as a teacher have to find the appropriate strategy for teaching conditional lessons.