Southern Ontario Cooperative of ESL MinistriesLessons on grammar, pronunciation, etc.
By Tom McCormick I have been noticing a change in the use of English, even by native speakers. Have you? Sometimes the changing forms come up in ESL sessions. What to do? What do you do? One school of thought teaches the ‘correct’ forms, then also informs the students of the ‘changing’ forms—sometimes kind of […]
By Linda Reed Most of us don’t realize we’ve signed up to teach grammar when we sign up to teach English. We often just love Internationals, and perhaps teaching. We feel called and we care. But, clarifying the words that form contractions, conjunctions, or consonant pronunciation—we’re often not so sure. What if we could provide […]
What words do your Chinese-speaking students have most difficulty with? Perhaps you thought of ‘walk’ and ‘work’; ‘bit’ and ‘beet’; and pronouncing words starting with a consonant cluster like ‘drape’ and ‘French’. Here are some articles on common errors of Chinese English speakers: 10 English Pronunciation Errors by Mandarin Speakers Chinese Pronunciation Problems in English […]
By Carol Blake Does grammar make you nervous? Do you wonder if you know enough to be able to help your students with their grammar? Let’s take pronouns, for example. Can you explain when to use who or whom? You and I or You and me? You can Google these issues fairly easily and find […]
These resources have been generously donated by Pam Cousins and reflect her many years of dedicated teaching, especially teaching pronunciation. Speaking Clearly Self Study and Teacher’s Guide Speaking Clearly Student Book Speaking Clearly Audio files
Pronunciation is important! Here are some links to useful and interesting sites and documents that can help you help others with their English pronunciation: http://international.ouc.bc.ca/pronunciation/ (Includes complete Workbook and mp3 files for each unit to download.) Don’t miss this one…with x-ray video of the mouth: http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/index.html http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/contents.html http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/contents.html http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/ http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/stuff/english-pronunciation.html
Hi ESL associates, If you haven’t noticed, one of the areas that many ESL students struggle in is “phrasal verbs”. Here’s an excellent site that captures some of the more often-used ones. (Just click on a letter in the alphabetical menu on the left of the web page and it will give you a list […]