It is not surprising that one can have an idea and fail to find the correct words to put it down on paper. Suppose one is writing about an emotional experience‚ for instance. It may be difficult or even impossible to bring out the intensity of feelings so that the reader can feel them too‚ or explain the impact that they had on the character who felt them. Few writers can find the right words to explain
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Once I changed my attitude toward everything‚ I recognized my world‚ my future and myself. It happened when my friends and I had almost finished our last academic year and were invited by our lovely and friend like teachers to an amazing trip‚ to Issyk-Kul‚ the pearl of Kyrgyz land. About five of my best friends and I were going to the breathtaking places of our motherland where we decided to have an unforgettable days of our life. It was usual shiny day when we were about to leave our lyceum and
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LESSON PLAN 1 Theme: Classroom texting Level: Beginner Objective: Practice speaking and writing Time: 45 minutes Skills: Writing‚ speaking Background grammar: Use of relative clauses Preparation: Make a vocabulary list about movie types: romance‚ comedy‚ drama‚ western‚ science fiction‚ thriller‚ horror‚ animation‚ documentary‚ musical‚ action‚ adventure‚ fantasy. Procedure As a warm up‚ write the list on the whiteboard and ask students about their most liked and disliked
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worked really hard to get to where I am today. My family only spoke Spanish to me so I wasn’t able to learn English. My oldest sibling growing up didn’t speak English either. When I started elementary school I started to learn to learn the language. Everything was difficult for me‚ but throughout the years I got better in speaking‚ writing‚ and reading. At my school there’s programs for English Learners‚ which helped me with my speaking. It was
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My Summer Vacation One of my favorite family traditions is summer vacation. Every summer without fail we go on vacation‚ and we stay there for at least a week. For the past five years we have been going to Disney World with our family that lives in Los Angeles. He is my cousin Ricardo‚ he lives with his wife and his 1-yearold daughter. I like them because they’re nice‚ cool and funny. It has turned into
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It seemed to be the longest bus ride on which I had ever been. Every passenger had the same terrified look on their face. Each one of us seemed to be thinking the same thing. Asking ourselves‚ "Do we really want to go where this bus was taking us?" We all knew the destination ‚ and thought we were ready to go there. Many of us had visited this place‚ or places like it in our imaginations when we had played as kids. Was it a dream come true‚ or nightmare? The welcoming committee was
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woke up one sunny morning to find my grandpa sitting on the edge of my bed. I was curious as to what he was doing there‚ but then grew excited when he informed me that I was ready to learn how to ride a bike without any training wheels. I had been riding with training wheels for almost a year and felt like I was ready to take the next step in growing up. Even though I had some doubt‚ my grandpa and I went outside and took the little wheels off my bike. Following my bike’s transformation‚ it was time
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For my Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) meeting assignment I attended an AA meeting held at Annunciation RC Church in Paramus. I was a bit nervous before coming in to the meeting. I had my own personal feelings towards alcoholics for some time. I had a few relatives that dealt with alcohol with some of their lives. Like most families from my background‚ talking about alcoholism just never happened. It was something that was kept secret and never discussed. My religion tells us that drinking any kind of
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The Importance of Games in an ESL classroom Presentation by Ana Faísca‚ Cláudia Ludovico and Elisabete Martins CURSO DE COMPLEMENTO DE FORMAÇÃO SUPERIOR EM ENSINO DO INGLÊS NO 1.º CICLO DO ENSINO BÁSICO Spoken English I Professora Sílvia Roda Couvaneiro Instituto Piaget‚ Almada March 2015 INTRODUCTION Children learn best when the contents are relevant to them and when they can connect new learning with old learning. Finding connections between the new and the old learning can be challenging at
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sheltered instruction‚ teachers simplify the language without watering down the content‚ and use scaffolding strategies to communicate meaningful input in the content area to ELLs (Wright‚ 2015‚ p. 92). Wright (2015)‚ states that “the main purpose of ESL instruction is to enable Ells to develop their proficiency in English by mastering the skills of listening‚ speaking‚ reading‚ and writing to the extent that they are able to use the English language appropriately and effectively for
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