Wayne, There is a set of Student Performance Level Descriptors designed for adult ESL students in the U.S. and broken down into ten levels in PDF format at ...
Thank you for the report back as we often try to give information and may never get feedback on what was useful and what didn't seem to pan out. Can you share...
john pullen
j_pullen@...
Aug 1, 2005 10:28 am
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Student Levels The characteristics below are the skills students have mastered upon the completion of the level. Beginner: - the alphabet -...
Calum Sutherland
calumn1@...
Aug 1, 2005 10:29 am
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[Please forgive the cross-posting. - dk] This is just a reminder that we will be having a mini-seminar with Dorothy E. Zemach, a successful author of English...
... Hi all, I was reading the China living list digest about business and vocabulary ecc. There was an article in IHT recently about Globish. Multinational...
nevin@...
Aug 1, 2005 10:30 am
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Hi Wayne! I did a little "Googling" on this, as most of my assessment sheets and info that my teaching group (I went 2002-2004) gave me also sit in a closed...
Hi All, Thank You for being here! LIST RULES ... 1. *Friendliness first* - this is a public list, avoid attacking anyone - emails sting so easily. be kindly...
TEFLChina@yahoogroups...
Aug 2, 2005 1:57 am
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... person with ... A child of 5 has around 5000 word families. Some of them may be of little use outside the 5 yr old environment but this does seem to ...
"So a Frenchman has started an idea called Globish, in which any person with a vocab of 1500 words can comm effectively with any other person with roughly the...
Actually the idea of a universal language of about 850 words and simplified grammar was promulgated be an Englishman named C. E. Ogden in 1930: Basic English...
... My personal present favourite are the leather belts sold in the department store here. All richly presented in a nice box and gold fabric with the legend -...
Stephen A Jenkins
stephenajenkins@...
Aug 3, 2005 7:29 am
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... Dave's right but the downside is that to get that near 100% communication there are many occasions when the speaker doesn't even attempt to get something...
Hi, "There are many references in the archives of this list to a set of European descriptors."" We just had 9 months in Italy. Europe has CEF, Common European...
nevin@...
Aug 4, 2005 7:34 am
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Friends, Several of you have asked for more detail regarding our program. I thought a reply to the list might open this up for feedback. I went with a...
Hi, I say he's invented Globish because the article said he's patented the word, but of course the idea is older, as you say. I also had some interesting...
nevin@...
Aug 6, 2005 5:09 am
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... Reply: As a Yank (at my Chinese Univ)I have worked with text books (and tapes) published from all the major english speaking countries. I have no...
I'm American I have to say that I have used British Texts (English File for example) as supplementary teaching texts in US, and would not mind teaching a...
Actually I have learned a considerable amount of British English and how it applies to other countries in usually a mix. I have made my own word lists and ...
"We had a broad range of proficiency so we often translated the morning lecture into Chinese. Some of the students were struggling to understand the basic...
djmcdaniel
djmcdaniel@...
Aug 7, 2005 5:22 pm
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Frank: Actually I have learned a considerable amount of British English... Moi: This puzzles me. How much specifically British English is there for an...
I once said to a British friend at a party, "You've got a rugby game to go to in the morning, don't you?" He 'corrected' my tag question by saying, "Haven't...
... Not much really. It's easier for us Brits since we use US and Brit English and are familiar with quite a lot of US vocab already. We use terms like truck...
... Interesting. But I suspect this may not happen with all tags for present perfect in US English. How about: You've made a mistake, don't you? You've got a...
I have been using the Video search function at Yahoo.com and by searching on "business" I have come across some interesting things. One site has dozens of...
... "You made a mistake, didn't you?" ... "You have a car, don't you?" ... "You have a train to catch, don't you?" ... "You have a train to catch, don't you?" ...
Nelson Bank
natlunla@...
Aug 8, 2005 3:33 pm
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John Wakefield: I once said to a British friend at a party, "You've got a rugby game to go to in the morning, don't you?" He 'corrected' my tag question by...
... Ouch! all of these sound real strange to me! You've = you have, therefore the question tag is 'haven't you?". You're = you are, therefore the question tag...
I'm having a bit of bother with this word "kindly". I have never used this word before but since coming to China I am beset with it like marauding mosquitoes...
[Dick wrote:] ... Like I said, obviously US and UK Englishes treat sentences with "have got" as having a different auxiliary. You are British, so you naturally...
... For some fun last winter I taught my girlfriend how to describe the weather in colloquial English. What began as "Bugger me, it's bleeding cold, innit. ...
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