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• Charades 2

  Published: July 30, 2007, 9:15 pm

  Tags: Vocabulary Any, Questions Asking, Sentence Making, Present Progressive, Warm Up, Verbs, Role Playing, Actions

  Aims: -ing verbs From Three Wise Monkeys Materials: none Three Wise Monkeys gives a number of different ways to use this activity to practice various ways of using verbs in different tenses. HINTS: Use with a high-energy class only. Try for warm-up. Go to this activity

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• Facebook 'Is' No More [Ontology]

  Published: November 20, 2007, 5:50 pm

  Tags: Faaaaacebook, Facebook, Ontology, Verbs

  Don't worry, you'll still be able to poke anyone you like, but soon Facebook will stop forcibly conjugating "to be" for you. Right now, Facebook's "status" feature automatically places an "is" in...

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• Difference Between "Hear" and "Listen"

  Published: January 2, 2008, 6:27 pm

  Tags: Dictionaries, Regular Verbs, Vocabulary

  Many of my ESL students are confused about when to use the verb "hear" and when to use the verb "listen." I wonder if this may be because in other languages (at least Spanish--escuchar), the same word is used for both English words."To hear" is used when a sound comes to your ears. For example, I hear loud music coming from next door. Or, I hear

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• linking verb - photos

  Published: April 18, 2008, 2:52 am

  Tags: Galaxy Closest To Milky Way, Haiku, Linking Verbs, Galaxy Closest To The Milky Way, Verb

  and hopelessly are the adverbs. ... read moreHim Alone: Singer needs better publicistSuch errors in objective versus nominative case most often occur when two nouns or pronouns appear after a preposition or verb. ... read moreSpeak Out: Call from a distant cousinA Harvard boy sure knows his linking verb needs a compliment, not an object, I

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• Learning Spanish Online

  Published: May 19, 2008, 8:18 am

  Tags: Spanish Language, Blog, Conjugations, Dictionary, Exercises, Grammar, Habla Hispana, Language, Learning, Online, Pronunciation, Resources, Spanish, Speakers, Translation, Verbs, Vocabulary

  The best method for learning Spanish is total immersion in the language. However, you might not have the time or the money to take an extended learning holiday to ramp up your Spanish skills. And while there are some excellent software programs and sets of CDs that you can purchase, the Internet has a fantastic array of free language learning

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• List of Irregular Verbs

  Published: July 12, 2008, 12:00 pm

  Tags: Irregular Verbs

  I've added an Irregular Verbs List to my main website.This may be helpful for English language learners (and many native-English-speakers--including myself!) when using some verbs in the Simple Past and any of the Perfect tenses.I'll try to turn it into a pdf so it's easier to print out just as soon as I remember how to do it!--end--

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