Dear All, The TESOL Electronic Village Online is again offering 11 6-week free online courses (Jan 16 - Feb. 26, 2005). Registration has just started. "For six...
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judithmoleuk
Jan 7, 2006 6:51 am
People might be interested in the following new publication: Deaf and Multilingual - A practical guide to teaching and supporting deaf learners in foreign...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 13, 2006 1:00 pm
A look on the internet tells me that an uncountable noun can never be preceded by "a/an". So, how does that square with my achieving "a good knowledge" of...
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Rita Baker
lydbury85
Jan 13, 2006 2:20 pm
Just a suggestion - but could it be elliptical - a good 'amount / degree of'' knowledge? Rita...
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Marianne Dorléac
marianne_dor...
Jan 13, 2006 3:41 pm
Well I think that when there is some sort of *precision* involved, the uncountable must be preceded by a/an. Some jam --------------> a large quantity of jam. ...
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Russell Kent
russkent321
Jan 13, 2006 3:47 pm
Dear List Members, This is a plea for help on behalf of some Dutch university physiotherapy students whom I have as language students. They are going to...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
Jan 13, 2006 4:06 pm
... You write: "A look on the internet tells me that an uncountable noun can never ... 1. Beware of all rules (about most things, not just grammar) that use...
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MCJ
omarjohns
Jan 13, 2006 4:43 pm
... Uncountable nouns are grammatically plural. Thus we say (sing) a chair the chair (pl.) chairs the chairs (pl) salt the salt Note that no article is...
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Michael Morrissey
mdmorrissey
Jan 14, 2006 6:04 pm
For years I have been marking "medicaments" wrong (medicine, drugs), until yesterday I student pointed out to me that it is in the Longman dictionary, which...
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Marianne Dorléac
marianne_dor...
Jan 14, 2006 6:30 pm
Well you can have our "médicaments" , we have your "week-ends" ! Michael Morrissey <mdmorrissey@...> a écrit : For years I have been marking...
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MCJ
omarjohns
Jan 14, 2006 7:11 pm
... It is in Chambers too. I've only ever heard it in French. According to Chambers, it is particualy used to refer to linaments and balms. I would probably...
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Anne Fox
foxdenuk
Jan 15, 2006 11:18 am
I see a certain similarity of approach between Dogme and this free six week course starting January 16. Registration closes today but thet are often flexible...
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christian2966
Jan 16, 2006 7:51 am
Hello everyone, My name is Christian and I am an english teacher in Chile. I got a Macmillan catalogue some time ago and I am very interested in the book "700...
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Jeff Bragg
jeff_bragg2001
Jan 16, 2006 3:32 pm
I think most native speakers would use 'medicine' or 'medication' to refer to an orally-administered drug. 'Medicaments' sounds very Franglais to me, but, as...
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vonmarrviii
Jan 16, 2006 5:43 pm
Hi Christian, I've never worked with this book myself, but one of the school managers I work for swears by this book. If you'd like to hear a more concrete...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 18, 2006 8:14 am
Hi One of my students is currently studying a Pre-Master's Course. As part of her assessment, she has to write a research proposal (and a dissertation) about...
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Graham Stanley
bcgstanley
Jan 18, 2006 5:48 pm
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:11:07 +0000 From: "Diarmuid Fogarty" <dfogarty@...> Subject: Help required Hi One of my students is currently studying a...
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mark6359
Jan 18, 2006 8:22 pm
Just thought I say thanks to Dogme. I've just had an observed lesson in which my students brought in stuff they thought would be interesting for the class and...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 19, 2006 10:16 am
Thanks to Mark too for redogmetizing dogme. Perhaps we can take Mark's point up about certain activities being more conducive to scaffolding and volunteer a...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 19, 2006 10:18 am
Dogme listening? One of my classes is hosting a seminar every week, with a different student or students in the driving seat. They post up the details of what...
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Peter Hanley
peterhnly
Jan 19, 2006 10:47 am
Yes, nice to get back to classroom practices... Mark, When asked by my boss how I intended to teach listening, I replied that "They can listen to me, no?" And...
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Jane Arnold
blancuchi2002
Jan 19, 2006 12:16 pm
A somewhat similar situation to Diarmuid's - I have had a class this term called Speaking and there was a fair amount of listening too - some fairly normal...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Jan 19, 2006 1:26 pm
Peter's right with 'They can listen to me' - they can also listen to each other. And we can listen to them - we're all in it together - listening and ready to...
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djn@...
dnewson2001
Jan 19, 2006 2:37 pm
Peter recently wrote: "Other than that I encourage people to listen to radio as much as possible-Not even necessarily paying attention but just having it on...
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jackamandy
Jan 19, 2006 3:13 pm
Hello. I teach ESOL and I was just wondering if anyone can help me reconcile 'teaching unplugged' with the setting and achieving of National Curriculum...
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Luke Meddings
luke@...
Jan 19, 2006 4:19 pm
I think that if you were 'jumping on any interesting language that comes up,' in the phrase du jour, and the students were thoroughly engaged, and you were...
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Marianne Dorléac
marianne_dor...
Jan 19, 2006 4:24 pm
I found that listening to the BBC and RECORDING some of it, then replay it as many times as needed to transcribe what is heard is a great help (and this is the...
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Marianne Dorléac
marianne_dor...
Jan 19, 2006 4:34 pm
Unplugged does not mean unprepared ! Get to know your students, their interests, be prepared to talk about yours in details, in order to trigger interest and...
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Diarmuid Fogarty
diarmuid_fog...
Jan 19, 2006 4:36 pm
Hi Jackamandy I think that there is somebody on the list who is in the same context as you, so if they can remember who they are, they might have more useful...
