Friday 16 January 2015

How do you deal with students that you can't stand because of their behaviour?
- they are a sign of your own insecurities? maybe
- others find them just as annoying as you do? yes!
- do they need to prove something to themselves? very possibly
- don't overreact, don't criticise them (much) to others but it's good to let steam out, don't hold it back.

Word formation FCE level





WORD FORMATION – USE OF ENGLISH FOR FIRST CERTIFICATE



Recommendations for doing these exercises at home. 

Don’t worry if you make many mistakes in your first attempt. You get better by repeating and repeating, but make sure you understand what you’re reading. Some of the objectives you should be aiming to with the practice below are to help you become familiar with words you didn’t know and to develop an intuition how to create derivatives.

-          Read the whole text once or twice and identify words you don’t understand.

-          Use google images or a dictionary to find out what the words are or mean.

-          Read text a second time, ensuring that you understand the meaning of words and identify what word type you need in each gap (noun, adjective, verb, adverb, opposite adjective?)

-          Do exercise and check the answers.

-          Cut and paste the text onto google translate or reverso and listen to it. Make you know how to pronounce words and sentences.

-          Do it all over again, two or three times.

-          Go back to this text in a few days’ time and do it over again.



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