Effortless English A Kiss huge: adj. very very big Carlos buys a new car. It's a very expensive car. It's a huge, blue, fast car. While driving down the street, Carlos sees a girl on a bicycle. She has long blond hair and is beautiful. He yells to her, "What's up?" What’s up: a greeting, “hello” ignores: v. doesn’t listen to She ignores him. How’s it going: a greeting, He yells, "How's it going?" “How are you?” She keeps going and ignores him. keeps: v. continues That’s it: idiom
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marikinacatholicschool@mcs.edu.ph ------------------------------------------------- S.Y. 2014-2015 A Narrative Report “With English we can become Heroes” Everything starts with a plan. As early as August we started planning this whole thing. We started with the theme; we decided to focus on heroism since that was the year of the laity and so we come up with the theme: With English we can become Heroes. We also decided to retain all the previous activities from last year’s celebration and we added
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has changed from Greek, to Latin, to French, and eventually to English. English is the simplest and easiest language in the world. Some languages, like Japanese and Chinese, are quite simple yet, they have complicated scripts. If Chinese Language is written in Latin manuscript, it will have a potential to be the universal language. In the case for “Universal Language” the simplicity and easiness weren't the reasons to make English as a Universal Language. As I said earlier about Chinese language
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4.2 Books focused on SC pronunciation Let us look at the titles written in English first. The number of textbooks and teaching materials concerned solely with SC pronunciation is quite small. Huang (1969) is limited to simple descriptions of the articulation of particular consonants, vowels, diphthongs, and triphthongs, accompanied by sketches of vocal organs, adding explanation of tones (note that Huang uses the IPA symbols in comparison with various romanization systems including Pinyin). Dow (1972)
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To teach this paragraph to English Language Learners in this particular classroom may not be an easy task. The main reason for is because a significant number of students are at the Intermediate CELDT. For that reason I will begin with vocabulary instruction. This will help students to have a basic understanding of the content and in the words of Zwier, (2011) “tools for understanding and for communicating meaning in our content areas” (p. 188). Then I will continue with a Read-Aloud. This will
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Министерство образования и науки Республики Казахстан Кокшетауский государственный университет им. Ш. Уалиханова An Outline of British Literature (from tradition to post modernism) Кокшетау 2011 УДК 802.0 – 5:20 ББК 81:432.1-923 № 39 Рекомендовано к печати кафедрой английского языка и МП КГУ им. Ш. Уалиханова, Ученым Советом филологического факультета КГУ им. Ш. Уалиханова, УМС КГУ им. Ш. Уалиханова. Рецензенты: Баяндина С.Ж. доктор филологических
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Psychology Project 1 The Change of The English Language Dmitry Shkolnik Tesst College of Technology In the course of human language, it becomes necessary for people to create or redefine, words or phrases to express an object or an action; and to assume, among society, the acceptance and usage of these words and their definitions, in one’s own language, or idiolect. A decent respect to the opinions of mankind, requires that Americans should recognize slang adopted into
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Marisa Barbera Mrs. Rosenwasser AP English 3/13/12 A Critique of the Use of Language For many, language represents a unifying force between people. For instance, a man and a woman are sitting on a bus in Barcelona; complete and total strangers just sitting. The man is a college graduate from Argentina, the women a local school teacher. They have absolutely nothing in common except for the fact that they both speak Spanish. The man and woman ultimately strike up a conversation about the
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Damien Cowger English 3080J 10 April 2013 Something Awful: Would You Tell the Truth? I found “Something Awful” to be a very enjoyable story. This story was about three couples who got together, Mark and Beth, Joe and Sally, and Elaine and Jack and decided to play a little game. The couples were sitting around at Joe and Sally’s house drinking alcohol and passing around joints even though two of the couples had children there. I felt like this added to the story due to the fact it showed their
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2/3/2015 My Experience of English Learning As leaning English for almost fifteen years, I have to say I had a lot of experience of learning this language. Yes, I studied English for fifteens, it’s been a long time, but I still can’t speak English fluently. Honestly I don’t think my English is close to “fluently”, I think my English still can describe as “broken” or “fractured”, just like Amy Tan’s mother. The good news is I can feel my improvement, and maybe in years, my English would no longer be “broken”
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