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So…how can we make it nice and simple for our students? Make it visually attractive: Charts, tables & Colours HELP- AND ALWAYS connect them to the other parts of the sentence! For instance, for the lower levels: STRUCTURES FOR YEAR 1 CSE: Question Word(s) Auxiliary 1 Subject: Who/What Lexical (V- V-ing V-ed/en/) Rest: What [...]
English Auxiliaries are ESSENTIAL, NICE, and ORDERLY. Keep them simple and in good company! Part 2
In the previous post THE FIRST PART OF A SET OF THREE, we showed why English Auxiliaries are ESSENTIAL in ways that Spanish Auxiliaries are not. Now we are going to: Showed why there is no future tense in English. FINALLY, in the third part: : We’ll hint at possible ways of helping our students [...]
English Auxiliaries are ESSENTIAL, NICE, and ORDERLY. Keep them simple and in good company! Part 1
In the previous post we: Showed why there is no future tense in English. Indicated thatthe English verb phrase cannot be understood properly, nor will we be able to interact with others in English, if we do not have it clear in our minds that there are two main groups of verbs: Lexical Auxiliary To [...]
Why Spanish has a Future while English does not.
As we know, English has two terms: “Time” to refer to the concept we use to measure the succession of events, situations, etc., and “Tense” to refer to the grammatical category of verbs expressing time nuances. Spanish, on the other hand, uses the same term, “Tiempo”, to refer to both distinctions. The distinction and, particularly, [...]
Our Mutual friend: A homage to C. Dickens
Charles Dickens Esta entrada es una revisión y actualización de enlaces de la que fue publicada por primera vez el 14 de Febrero de 2015, una semana después del 203 aniversario del nacimiento de Dickens. El día de su cumpleaños, el 7 de febrero de 2015, fue cuando se puso en marcha la primera versión [...]