Multiple-Choice Questions are a tried and tested method of checking how much your students know. This article looks at the practical side of things for TEFL teachers: writing a good question and preparing your students for multiple-choice questions in exams. Before...
Finnish is spoken by the majority of people in Finland (92%) and ethnic Finns outside of Finland. It's one of the two official languages of Finland (along with Swedish). It is related to Estonian and a few other minority languages in the region. Finnish uses the Latin...
Sometimes we can have a sentence with 2 objects. We call these the direct objects and indirect objects. In sentences with 2 objects, the subject gives the direct object to the indirect object: {subject} + {verb} + {indirect object} + {direct object} I + bought +...
A paragraph is a collection of one or more sentences. It is used to group ideas in a piece of writing or text. A paragraph, then, is part of the structure of a text: 1 or more words > 1 or more sentences > 1 or more paragraphs = text There's no standard...
Commas are used as part of the punctuation system of English. This article describes how and when we use them. Talking generally we use commas in two main ways. First, to separate lists of words or similar items in a sentence: He was a big, bad, bald, belligerent,...
The British government wants to introduce more formal grammar tests to schools in the UK. However this is being countered by the main teachers' unions who say it is an attack on teachers. The British government wants to introduce more formal grammar tests to schools...
TEFL/TESOL in Uruguay Located on the southern border of Brazil along the Atlantic coast and bordered by Argentina to the west, Uruguay is an attractive prospect when it comes to teaching English in South America. Economically, the country is in a great period of...
Venezuela (or officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela) is a beautiful country in the very north of South America, looking onto the Caribbean. It is a very urbanized country with most people living in the capital city of Caracas. It has large reserves of oil...
¿Hablas español? About 470 million people do! In fact Spanish is the second most popular first language in the world (after Mandarin; English is third) and also the third most popular language on the internet (after English then Mandarin). As a first language it is...
Simply put, Corpus Linguistics is the study of language using computer programs which analyze millions of lines of texts held in a corpus (pl, corpora). To begin with masses of samples of language are collected: from newspapers, books, transcripts of the spoken word,...
