Resources for Teachers: Assessing Student Needs

Assessing students’ English learning needs and goals is important for both teachers and English learners themselves. Here are some helpful articles: Why are You Learning English? (interactive quiz, with follow-up suggestions) Setting…View article…

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ESL: 10 Differences Between a Good Writer and a Bad Writer

Ten Differences Between a Good Writer and a Bad Writer
About 2,500 years ago, Socrates posed the question in Plato’s Phaedrus: “What, then, is the way to distinguish good writing from bad?”A collection of thoughts from different writers on the subject  View article…

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ESL: 6 Reasons to Study English

David Crystal’s Six Good Reasons to Study the English Language
Some books about the English language are cleverly written–playful, humorous, and all too often littered with inaccuracies. At the other end of the shelf are the formal linguistic studies–heavily footnoted,… View article…

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Mission News: From Brigada Today

Brigada Today
1.       YOUR OPINION ON THIS ARTICLE ABOUT AFRICA NEEDING MISSIONARIES? –
Here’s an article by an atheist pointing out that, in his opinion, Africa would be made better by missionaries. Would you take a moment to read the article and comment on it? What’s your opinion about this atheist’s conclusions? (Thanks for the tip about [...]

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ESL: Visual Dictionaries

Visual Dictionaries
Saturday February 21, 2009
Using visual dictionaries are a great way to improve your vocabulary. Here on the site, there are four visual dictionaries that provide pictures and example sentences:Sports
Food
Animals
Professions
From ESL.about.com http://esl.about.com/b/2009/02/21/visual-dictionaries.htm

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Easy English Downloads

Let’s read again that living story of His birth, His life, His death…and beyond.  The book of Luke, written in EasyEnglish using simple words, will help us all to understand what lies at the heart of Christmas.
There are two new items on our website which you really must look at!  “The King who did [...]

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English Lesson of the Day

Echo Effect
The “echo effect” is when a slogan or jingle get’s into everyday talk. Advertisers love to get people to incorporate slogans into regular conversation.
Echo effect examples: Wendy’s “Where’s the beef?” or Miller Beer’s “I love you man!” Nike’s “Just do it!” These brand slogan reverberated in pop culture and infiltrated our everyday conversations.

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English Lesson of the Day: Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving Reading Comprehension
This holiday feature includes a Thanksgiving reading comprehension with difficult vocabulary explanations about the history of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving followed by a Thanksgiving reading comprehension quiz. …
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ESL Word of the Day: textrovert

Textrovert
1. One who feels an increased sense of bravery over texting, as opposed to in person.
2. One who will often only say what they really feel over text messages.
 
Kelly: “So how’d the conversation go with Bill last night?”
Wendy: “Ah he’s such a textrovert. We didn’t make any progress until I went home and he [...]

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English helps

Theological Word of the Day
Aaronic
AARON’IC, a. Pertaining to Aaron, the Jewish High Priest, or to the priesthood of which he was the head.
English Lesson of the Day
 
Tense Review Chart
This overview chart shows the positive, negative and interrogative (question) forms of all the principal tenses in English with a brief description of the principal usage. The [...]

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