Do you want to learn the English language?This blog is a collection of English lesson plans for all levels of ESL/EFL students. This will help the viewers in reading, writing, listening, grammar, speaking, and pronunciation skills.
I'm Teacher Jet,an English Online Tutor. My Skype ID is imteacherjet.
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ESL learners can learn a lot from reading tweets, news, and songs. Example is the phrase "I can't help but.."
Can't help - can't avoid, resist, or stop doing something
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Can’t help but phrase comes from two other phrases can’t help —ing(This means - "I can't keep myself from —ing") andcan't but (This means - "I can't do anything except"). Socan't help but means "I can't keep myself from doing anything except,___
Usually, we don't want our weaknesses to be known.
Do you? I don't.
When I was preparing for my job interview after graduating college, a friend helped me how to answer this tough question: "What is your greatest weakness?" . She suggested these: " I'm a perfectionist" or " I'm hardworking and I do a lot of overtime work". After some job interview failures, I sensed that interviewers were not fulfilled with my answers so I needed to ask help from the experts.
This 1 minute video prepares us on how to be honest in job interviews, and not to give a strength disguised as a weakness.
ESL learners , " What Is Your Greatest Weakness?"
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P. S. I want to say my hello to an ESL learner Ruben who's currently looking for a job in Gloucester
( pronounced as GLOS-tər) in Gloucestershire, (GLOSS-tər-shər) England.Good luck to your job hunting!!
Claire Danes, an American actress,recently did a film based on the life and work of Temple Grandin and won her first Emmy award. When she was interviewed by CNN, she said " It's very out of body"
IDIOM for today:
It's very out of body - You can say this when you experience something as if you are outside of your own body and that you can watch what is happening to it or when you can't believe that something happened.
This afternoon, I received an e-mail from a previous student.She said that she misses me. Her name's Annie and what I recall about her is that she was my favorite student years ago in an English camp.
Watch this video as she teaches us about a simple tongue twister.A tongue-twister is a phrase or a sentence that is designed to be difficult to articulate properly.Practicing tongue-twisters would enhance your pronunciation skills.
Here are some tongue-twisters:Enjoy!
I thought, I thought of thinking of thanking you.
Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
How much wood could a wood chuck; chuck if a wood chuck could chuck wood.
The thirty-three thieves thought that they thrilled the throne throughout Thursday.
If you notice this notice, you will notice that this notice is not worth noticing
"When a doctor falls ill another doctor doctor's the doctor. Does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctor the doctor in his own way or does the doctor doctoring the doctor doctors the doctor in the doctor's way"
Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
if Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
wheres the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
Agricultural Store.You might be wondering what kind of products do they sell in that store.No, you can't find craft, fashion, or cultural-products there. Agriculture means the production of food and goods through farming. The key word is FARMING. Therefore, agricultural store supply farm equipment,seeds, chemicals and all manner of farm related items. An ESL learner named Andy from Korea had no idea before about the English terms of most of the products that he sells.
Watch this video as he learns and teaches us some ESL vocabulary words.
New Words To Study:
1. Herbicide - a chemical substance used to destroy or stops the growth of plants, especially weeds/grass
2.Fertilizer - food for the plants/ something that you add to soil to make it more productive
3.Grafting tape - a kind of tape that you use to join plants
4.Pesticide - a chemical used to kill pests, especially insects.
