Phuongninh  +  140575 Thu, 22 Sep 05 03:15 PM thanks for reply. I think your idea is a little too right. But we should teach to speak and listen english besides to write. My district will be a grand resort (like Lasvegas). So they should speak english. I have taught them with music, games, physical energy suchas danse,jump, run but I failed. I'll follow you by teaching them with the similarities. Phuongninh Joined on Mon, Sep 19 2005 hcm New Member 09 phuong Speak English

	pieanne  +  140590 Thu, 22 Sep 05 03:42 PM From/with song lyrics, maybe. Also having them introduce themselves, tell about their hobbies, their interests... From adverts, like: what did they just say in the scene before the pic, how is the situation going to evolve... What would they write in a blog? Create some kind of class-blog? With some grammar lessons in between, of course - alas for them! - . These are just suggestions, I don't know the level of your students. pieanne Joined on Thu, Jan 20 2005 South of France ...But I'm Belgian! Veteran Member 7,517 I'm glad to help, but I'm not a native! And please excuse my typos... Grammar

	Phuongninh  +  141031 Fri, 23 Sep 05 03:41 PM It's very nice of you to give me a reply. What a great pleasure of mine to receive your advice! I'll pay attention to similitary. But I'm still unclear about some passive interference between two languages. I cannot remember entirely but there is something about semantic, linguistic, phonetic, etc... Suffix ic may be derive from latin, greek. For example: Pedantic, Atlantic, Romantic, Exotic, Idiomatic, Arabic. Why don't people say identic ( identical) similic ( similarity). Could you help me to answer this question or show me an address of web about this problem? Phuongninh Phonetics

	Phuongninh  +  141037 Fri, 23 Sep 05 04:03 PM thanks for your suggestions... they will be advices for me: music, play, club... are very interested for them. picture, poster, flashcard are very important. I have met a Belgian who went alone in my district to research about environement. He is really a heros because there is monkey island in the Cangio forest. As you know, my district is a green lung of Hochiminh city. This Belgian is very nice, he helps us to practice vocabularies a lot in a very special situation. You, too. Phuongninh

	pieanne  +  141040 Fri, 23 Sep 05 04:05 PM Thank you. I guess Belgians are very inventive...     pieanne

	LanguageLover  +  141134 Fri, 23 Sep 05 10:31 PM As to your question about the affix -ic , well, language works in different ways and makes use of different methods of word formation. Not all the words derive the same way, have a closer look at your mother tongue and you'll see for yourself. There are different reasons for that, you can read a book on morphology to get a better perspective. One reason is the fact that not all the borrowed words are entered the language at the same time, or from a single source. An alternative affix might had not been present at the time the word was borrowed or invented! An affix can die, lose its productivity, at some time, .... And the situation is the same amongst all the languages, just they adopt their own way of working things out ....  Hope that my explenation makes the understang of the word formation easier for you. Cheers, LanguageLover Joined on Fri, Feb 25 2005 Contributing Member 1,507 The similarities among the languages are more than their differences! Affix, Morphology

	Phuongninh  +  141332 Sat, 24 Sep 05 04:25 PM Your name rings a bell. In VietNamese we have : "godautre" It means. Beat on the children's by a rule. Could you take care of the childen who can't remember anything besides "Thanh love Lan (the boy's name and the girl's name).they write everywhere they can, on the wall, the table the blackboard, the window or the door. Always the mistake s of the 3rd person of singular. They can't answer the question "Which grade are you in? from a personal assistant of Room to Read though they are in grade 9. They can only circle correctly the words A, B, C, D in multiple choice or underline the suitable words (may be they glance to the right and to the left) Phuongninh Underline