Daily Archives: December 11, 2012

About London/Britain

http://www.londontopic.co.uk/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehzH4GuBCVA&feature=related http://abmp3.com/download/8490079-london-bridge-is-falling-down.html http://projectbritain.com/

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Asking the Way Vocabulary

http://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/words/asking_the_way_vocabulary.htm

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LESSON PLAN: ‘Ready for Action-Recycling’, Author: Maria Tzotzou

LESSON PLAN: ‘Ready for Action-Recycling’ *Recommending an alternative to  unit 5 of the E’ class coursebook entitled ‘Ready for action’ which is thematically related to the Environment (cross-curricular link: Environmental Studies). PRE-LISTENING STAGE (5-10 min): The teacher – activates Ls’ … Continue reading

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Romeo and Juliet BIOPOEM (by Anderson 2002)

Romeo and Juliet: BIOPOEM Purpose of this strategy: This strategy helps students examine character traits of fiction or non-fiction characters. Particularly, it helps students consider how an author characterizes figures within a piece of literature and construct or clarify understanding … Continue reading

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Romeo & Juliet for Kids

http://www.amazon.com/Romeo-Juliet-Kids-Shakespeare-Can/dp/1552092291#reader_1552092291

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Reviewing Error Analysis: the significance of EFL learners’ errors and hints for ELT practice

In ELT (English Language Teaching), errors help us realize how learners process the foreign language and develop underlying systems of rules. The speech that EFL (English as a Foreign Language) learners produce is a direct reflection of the rules which they have internalized, that is, of their underlying ‘competence’ in the foreign language. This assumption, though, is not always justified, since learners may also make errors which don’t result from any underlying system but from superficial influences. The purpose of this paper is to review error analysis matters by discussing briefly first the main influences which cause EFL errors and by pinpointing the most significant EFL error types focusing on internal learning processes, while, at the same time, we attempt to explore the relevant error hints for ELT. Continue reading

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