What is a connector? We use them to express relationships between ideas and to combine sentences. TIME *WHEN *AFTER *BEFORE *UNTIL *SINCE *WHILE *ONCE *AS SOON AS *AS EXAMPLES: *WE CANNOT PLAY LOUD MUSIC AFTER MIDNIGHT *PLEASE TURN OFF THE LIGHT BEFORE YOU LEAVE *SHE WAS A DANCER WHEN SHE WAS YOUNGER CONTRAST/CONCESSION *BUT *YET…
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Existen muchas palabras que pueden tener varios significados y posiblemente te preguntes, cuál es la forma de identificar su significado. La respuesta es que dependerá del contexto de la misma. Sin embargo, aquí te mostramos algunos ejemplos de palabras que funcionan como sustantivos y verbos. Water Sustantivo: Agua Verbo: Regar Book Sustantivo: Libro Verbo: Reservar…
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Piensa en alguien de otro país tratando de expresarse en español. Por lo general, a causa de su acento, se sabe de dónde viene una persona. A menudo, es posible identificar rápido a aquellas personas cuyo idioma materno es el inglés por su forma de hablar. A veces se oyen un poco extraños o incluso…
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It’s believed that the English language is made up of more words than any other language in the world. While impressive, it’s not hard to believe when you look at the number of adjectives we have and the number of synonyms we have for each word. We English speakers like to describe our situation and…
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Si nos referimos al tiempo, utilizamos ‘in’ cuando nos referirnos a un tiempo no específico; del día, del mes, una estación o un año. Aquí hay algunos ejemplos: “I always brush my teeth in the morning.” “My birthday is in June.” “It’s always cold in winter.” “My brother was born in 1999.” Cuando hablamos de lugares, la…
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They have most likely studied English at some point in their lives and abandoned their studies – they are often referred to as false beginners. But every now and then, we come across an absolute beginner, someone who has had so little exposure to English, they can’t even handle the most basic greetings, verbs or…
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Los avances tecnológicos se han vuelto parte de nuestra vida cotidiana y herramientas fundamentales en nuestros día a día. ¿Quién no utiliza un ordenador, escribe vía WhatsApp por teléfono o ve la televisión hoy en día? Si bien la tecnología nos ha ayudado a cambiar la manera que utilizamos para comunicarnos los unos con los…
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As teachers our goal is to create successful autonomous readers. So that they are able to acquire meaning from what they read as well as to improve their level of English. From the power of reading according to Stephen Krashen, we learned that the demands have been increasing faster in the last ten years. As…
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1. Don’t study grammar too much This rule might sound strange to many ESL students, but it is one of the most important rules. If you want to pass examinations, then study grammar. However, if you want to become fluent in English, then you should try to learn English without studying the grammar. Studying grammar…
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As a student, I didn’t realize that “reading” and “writing” were skills that went hand to hand in English teaching. Even though one of them is a receptive skill and the other one a productive skill. Both skills cannot exist without the other. Due to the fact that those skills (reading, writing) have to be…
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