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Speaking skill: Pinpoint the location Airport 2
Speaking skill: Pinpoint the locations Approach: Describe the photo to your partner This airport diagram is your photo, the plane’s locations are different than the ones shown on your partner’s image. Talk to each other, describing what you see and compare to find these differences. Directions: A way something is moving/facing: The winds were blowing…
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Speaking skill: Pinpoint the location Airport 1
Speaking skill: Pinpoint the locations Approach: Describe the photo to your partner This airport diagram is your photo, the plane’s locations are different than the ones shown on your partner’s image. Talk to each other, describing what you see and compare to find these differences. Directions: A way something is moving/facing: The winds were blowing…
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Speaking skill: Pinpoint the locations
Speaking skill: Pinpoint the locations Approach: Describe the photo to your partner There are two different layouts of airports. You have one, and your partner has the other. To compare the pictures and find the differences, you must each describe their photo. In the end, draw a sketch that illustrates your photo image and your partner’s…
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Talking about Jazz
Talking about Jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States,in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime. Jazz is seen by many as ‘America’s classical music’. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression. It then emerged in…
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Look Ma’ no screen!
Origins of the cinema or movie-going Vaudeville shows: a type of popular entertainment of the late 19th and early 20th centuries that consisted of a series of short performances by singers, dancers, and comedians (people telling jokes) The little red school house. VERSE 1 Sometimes I think I was a little fool Back in those days, when I used to go t’ school When I was a kid, gee, how I hated That little place where I was educated…
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The simple past tense
The simple past tense The highway extends until it seems to reach the horizon, and it vanishes in the distance. The apparently remote background presents a sky packed with white clouds that contrast with the dark mountains. The clouds appear to grow in size as they approach the foreground of the photo. Another way to…
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Present continuous
Present continuous We have already talked about the simple present, which as its name implies is, actually, very simple to use: a piece of cake. Now, we will talk to talk about another present tense: we are referring to the Present Continuous. It is also known by the name of Present Progressive Tense. Examples I’m…
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Speaking skill: Photo or picture description
Speaking skill: Photo or picture description Approach: From the general to the particular Begin by describing the picture in general. What is the most striking aspect of this picture. That which distinguishes from any other picture and can be said in just a few words? Once you have formed the general descriptive sentence, begin…
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The simple present tense
The simple present tense The English language has several forms of present tense, the simple present tense, is one of these forms and is very easy to understand and to use. To form the simple present all we have to do is remove the word to from the infinitive of the verb (to cook,…
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What are verbs?
What are verbs? A verb is a word that is used to explain what a subject (a person, place, or thing) in a sentence is doing. A verb can also be used to explain what is being done to the subject. The Dallas Cowboys beat the Green Bay Packers today. The subject is The…