martes, 6 de abril de 2010

TIme Management

This video will us to teach time management as Da vinci was an example of time management

jueves, 29 de octubre de 2009

Unless

When I was studying "Unless clauses" for the first time, I had a little problem because I used a word unless in the simple translation, that was the reason why it turned diffculty for me to do some exercises. Then, I learned that translation is better to be used as the last resource. Thus, I learned that UNLESS = IF NOT in the conditional clauses.
In the following video, Jennifer will help us up giving some explanation and examples to work with Unless clauses.


Conditionals

I was looking for some information about If clauses or conditionals to help my students understand a little bit more of the subject.
Maybe there are some tips that can help students apply the usage of the grammar point in their daily English speaking.
Jennifer is good teacher who owns this video " English with Jennifer" and there are others that help you review grammar that you work with your students, she wants to give not only theory but also exercises for you to practice and see if you have acquired the new language.
I hope you enjoy it.


jueves, 13 de agosto de 2009

Gerunds and the different functions in English

When I was studying translation at the university , a friend of mine used to tell me that all the verbs go with "ed" because that was the way the nuns of her school taught her (actually, I don't think so, poor nuns). Obviously, I laughed because sometimes her writing made sense, but some other times it was terrible and the final grade was as bad as the "ed" ending of her grammar new rule. It was one of the reasons we didn't let her write any of our English tasks. Thus, when I start teaching English for the first time, I had to manage the use of the "ed" and "ing" endings. I had to understand it in one way that lets me teach in a practical and useful way, so my students could understand and manage it in their daily use.
I saw this video that might help a little bit to clear up the use of the "ing", because in English many verbs go in the ing form but not all of them are actually verbs, they can be adjectives, nouns, etc. Enjoy this video, it could help you up.

lunes, 9 de febrero de 2009

How to write an essay

In the following video, you can watch a very good explanation of how you can write an essay. It is explained how to write an essay paragraph by paragraph, from the introduction to a conclusion, It explains the organisation of the introduction and the distribution of paragraphs according to the thesis sentence or statement. It says that an essay must be interesting in the introduction to call the attention of the reader. Never do you answer the question of the essay in the introduction. Make your point of view interesting to the readers.