Be my friend on Facebook

You can become my friend on Facebook at
https://www.facebook.com/brent.rodney.jones  

Writing about the weather.

Click on this link to go to the writing area.

Click here to See what everyone wrote.

How we can keep learning English when we go back home?

1.          Listen to English on TV, radio, Internet....for about 15 to 30 minutes every day.

a.     voanews.com, ted.com, cnn.com

b.      www.ManyThings.org 

c.      comedy is better than drama

2.          Find a few English speakers and talk with them once a week.  Skype.com RosettaStone.com

3.      Read the news online.  Google news,  www.bbc.co.uk

4.      Write using Microsoft Live – SkyDrive, Outlook   
         or use Google Drive and Gmail. There is spell checking as you type.

5.     To learn more grammar or definitions, use Google search

  define commuter

   English present perfect

   
for example youtube.com with www.engvid.com  

You should try Evernote and LastPass and SkyDrive.
These are great free tools.

Difficult to say

There are little sayings, often poems that are fun to practice, but pretty difficult to say quickly.

Tongue Twisters

From http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/en.htm

1

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

2

I wish to wish the wish you wish to wish, but if you wish the wish the witch wishes, I won't wish the wish you wish to wish.

3

I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!

52

How much wood could Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck, if Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood? If Chuck Woods' woodchuck could and would chuck wood, how much wood could and would Chuck Woods' woodchuck chuck? Chuck Woods' woodchuck would chuck, he would, as much as he could, and chuck as much wood as any woodchuck would, if a woodchuck could and would chuck wood.

104 RW Mid Term exam essay topics

Topics

1.       My Family

2.       Family vacation

3.       Sickness people have had in my family

4.       The qualities I want in a wife / husband

5.       Problems in My School

6.       Types of People in My family

7.       Weather: My country compared to USA

YouTube video on MODALS

Here is a good video on can, could, may and might.  These are callled modals.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaBH_huiJSM 

Improve Your English Listening Comprehension

Places to listen online:

·       Business news  http://www.bloomberg.com/video/

·       World news  http://www.cnn.com/

·       Voice of America special English – slow and with easy vocabulary http://learningenglish.voanews.com/

·       BBC – news and features http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

·       TED—interesting talks http://www.ted.com/

·       Listen to English (British) http://www.listen-to-english.com/

·       YouTube   this is one of many English teachers http://www.youtube.com/user/gngdoan/videos

·       Anglo Link website https://www.anglo-link.com/index.php?/online_lessons/video_lessons

Learn English by Listening

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