AzarGrammar.com - Teacher Talk
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AzarGrammar.com - Teacher Talk
5y ago
Richard Firsten is a retired ESOL teacher, teacher-trainer and columnist
Oh, so you think there’s a typo in the title, do you? Well, no, it’s written that way deliberately. And why shouldn’t it be hop-hip instead of hip-hop? The way you’ve reacted to the title, you’d think there’s a rule or something about this. Well, guess what. There actually is!
Way back some 6,000 years or more, there was a language which linguists now refer to as PIE, Proto-Indo-European. It was the mother tongue which gave rise to what we now call the family of modern Indo-European languages, from Hindi and Farsi in the ..read more
AzarGrammar.com - Teacher Talk
5y ago
Kristine Fielding teaches ESOL at Lone Star College in Houston, Texas.
The word “get” is hard to get.
It does not have a set definition. It frequently embraces new meanings as technology requires, expanding and enveloping to absorb new semantical shapes, much like a boneless sea creature manipulating its form to acquire a new source of food.
Its ubiquitous use proves how flexible the word is. Not only does the word “get” have multiple meanings by itself, it is also used in a variety of phrasal verbs. An ESL/EFL student trying to communicate with native speakers in authentic settings can become ..read more
AzarGrammar.com - Teacher Talk
6y ago
Kristine Fielding teaches ESOL at Lone Star College in Houston, TX.
Maybe I’m not as old-school as I thought.
Back in the day, I was a staunch supporter of the Class Presentation, believing it was a sign of a Good Teacher to require one from all students. A Good Teacher helps her students iron out a presentation, demonstrates how a rubric works, and then dutifully sits through hours of student speeches, making a tally mark here or there on her grading sheet.
For good or bad, times have changed. Lately, I have been reflecting on the value of class presentations and wondering if they are worth t ..read more