A Bilabial Plosive in English is either /b/ or /p/ sound used at the beginning of a word as in boy or toy. Or, indeed bilabial and plosive. Some more minimal pairs with b and p include: bat - patbail - palebar - parbig - pigbillow - pillowbelt - pelt These sounds can...
Teacher Talking Time (TTT) is the amount of time the teacher talks in the classroom. It pays to make this as little as possible. Look at this typical TEFL classroom dialog: Teacher: Jimal, what's your favorite TV show? Jimal: Er... Teacher: Baywatch? American Idol?...
Author: Betty Schrampfer Azar; Stacy A. Hagen Publisher: Pearson, Longman Details: paperback; 3rd Edition; pub. 2005 ISBN: 0131849379 This full student book with audio CD and answer key offers concise, accurate, level-appropriate grammar information with an...
We use Demonstrative Adjectives to talk about specific examples of a noun. These are a kind of determiner. The demonstrative adjectives are: this that these those Although these look exactly like the demonstrative pronouns, when placed in front of a noun they function...
When using conditionals, it is sometimes difficult to know when to use the First Conditional and when to use the Second Conditional. This article looks at how to choose between the two types, and which is best to use. First or Second? Generally speaking, if you...
Adjectives normally tell us more about nouns e.g. {adjective} + {noun} rich + people poor + men Adjectives as Nouns However, we can also use an adjective as a noun by using this pattern: the + {adjective} We use this to talk about a group of people: The rich get...
American English - often abbreviated to AmE - is a variant of the English language, spoken mainly in the United States. About two-thirds of the world's native speakers of English live in America and speak this variant. English was introduced to North America by...
The Vocabulary is the collection of words in a language. In English there are estimated to be roughly 1,000,000 words in the language; this is a huge increase on the 50,000 words available in Old English. These words are generally derived from one of several main...
Task Based Language Learning (TBLL) is basically geared towards the students performing a particular task. In the ELT classroom this might: ordering a meal asking directions discussing a film preparing a job application It's all about getting the students focused and...
This article looks at the Position of Adjectives in a phrase. In English, unlike many other languages, adjectives generally come before the noun they describe: {adjective} + {noun} These are called attributive adjectives. brown wall young girl And so on. We can...
