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Top Reasons Why Rules of Pronunciation are Extremely Important for Teachers - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
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Many ESL teachers have never even heard of phonetics or phonology, yet they use these aspects of speech naturally when they speak. Phonetics and phonology are two areas of linguistics that study the sounds of language. Phonetics focuses on individual sounds, while phonology studies the features and combination of sounds (McMahon, 1-3). There are two reasons why ESL teachers need to know phonetics and phonology: first, it helps them to conceptualize English in a way that their students can understand; and second, it helps them to address their students' difficult pronunciation problems.
Why Students Suffer from Pronunciation Issues?
Lack of Subject Knowledge
Sound Awareness
Teacher as a Role Model
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Countries and Adjectives Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Countries and nationalities online worksheet for ESL students. This worksheet helps your students with country and adjective descriptions.
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20 Degrees of Adjectives - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here are the 20 most used degrees of adjectives with comparative and superlative. This is a great sheet to hand out to any English student.
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Comparatives Adjectives Worksheet - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's a fun worksheet to practice adjectives and comparatives in English.
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Adjectives and Adverbs Crossword Puzzle - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great crossword puzzle to practice adjectives and adverbs with your ESL students.
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The Correct Order of Adjectives in English - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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When you use more than one adjective, you have to put them in the right order or it will sound very strange. Do you say, "I want a big black cat" or "I want a black big cat?" Let's take a look at infographic below.
So, do you say, "I want a big black cat" or "I want a black big cat?"
The first one is correct.
Why?
If "big" is size and "black" is color, then it should come first because size is number (2) and color is number (5) on the infographic above.
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Adjectives Ending in -ed and -ing - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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What are the differences between adjectives ending in -ed and ending in -ing?
These adjectives describe the characteristics of a person, thing or situation. It causes a feeling, for example:
The books are boring.
These adjectives describe a feeling or an emotion. It is how we feel about something, for example:
He is bored.
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Comparative Adjectives Crossword Puzzle - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great crossword puzzle to practice comparative adjectives with your ESL students.
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Adjectives Opposites Word Search - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great word search activity to practice adjectives and their opposites.
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Adjectives and Adverbs Grammar Quiz - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This grammar quiz is perfect for ESL students practicing adjectives and adverbs in their ESL classes.
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Adjectives for Describing People in English - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Having the ability to describe people’s appearance and personality using adjectives is an important part of learning English. Below we look at a range of descriptive words with example sentences.
In everyday life, English speakers use adjectives to describe people’s appearance and/or personality in many different situations. When presenting a lesson to your students on this topic you will need to cover a wide range of words for them to learn and practice using activities such as role playing. The list of adjectives above and the example sentences below should give you some ideas when planning your lessons.
Examples for using adjectives to describe people:
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How Good Classroom Management Depends On Exemplary Teacher Behavior - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
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When a class is managed well, there is a minimum of disruptions that distract from learning. This is more of an issue in a class for children, as opposed to adults. Nevertheless, in all classes, maintaining the comportment of the group to facilitate learning is the objective of sound classroom management techniques. Furthermore, it is also important to develop cordial and friendly relations with learners on an individual basis, and with the class as a whole. Having a rapport with students, and creating a classroom community that is based on shared rules and norms that are understood and reasonable for everybody, is an essential part of classroom management. When accomplished, this creates a classroom culture that students feel safe and welcome in. This... [Read more]
EFL Opposites Crossword Puzzle - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's a fun EFL crossword puzzle with adjectives and their opposites.
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Opposites EFL Word Scramble - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's a fun EFL word scramble with adjectives and their opposites.
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Tefl reviews - English Grammar Overview Parts Of Speech Adjectives - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
Moving further down our list of parts of speech, we have our adjectives. Adjectives modify or describe nouns. Basically, they give more information about the noun. Here, we've used a noun such as chair. It could be any old chair. It's only the noun. If we want to describe the noun, we need to use an adjective before it. So, I could say "I have an old black leather chair". Here, we have to be concerned about the adjective order. In this instance, I started with age, as age typically goes before color and then I use the color to go before the material. This is a certain pattern. Depending on the adjectives you want to use, you always have to use certain patterns to which you'll need to be aware of when teaching your class. Another way to describe a noun is by showing possession. We... [Read more]
Opposites EFL Word Search - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's a fun EFL word search with adjectives and their opposites.
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EFL Word Match Opposites - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Here's a fun EFL worksheet to match adjectives to their related opposites.
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What Really Is the Role of the Parents in Education? - TEFL Blog
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It goes without saying that parents are the first teachers to their children, thus, education begins at home. Mothers and fathers together with school personnel may set up a perfect environment for a child's balanced learning.
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1. Be a Role Model
2. Read books together
3. Encourage active learning
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Antonym Twins - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a fun worksheet about adjectives and their antonyms. Students match each word in Twin Tom with its opposite in Twin Tyrone.
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English Pronouns Grammar Crossword Puzzle - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This is a great crossword puzzle to practice the different kinds of pronouns (possessive adjectives and pronouns, subject and object pronouns) with your ESL students.
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How did you feel...? Board Game - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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This board game focuses on adjectives to describe feelings. Students practice describing how they felt the last time certain things happened to them.
Give each pair of students a copy of the game board, a dice and two counters. The students take it in turns to roll the dice and move their counter along the board. When a student lands on a square, their partner asks them the 'How did you feel...?' question on the square, e.g. 'How did you feel the last time you had a difficult test?' The student then answers the question by describing how they felt the last time the thing happened to them. Their partner should then ask the student follow-up questions to continue the conversation and gain more information. The first student to... [Read more]
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