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Hello to all, I believe that to learn English depends of the interest of individual and depending of the English knowledge you wanted to learn. like for instance, if you want to speak English all you have to do is to listen very carefully to some tools such as CD, DVD, tapes etc. either audio...

I think before teaching vocabulary, we need to choose active and passive vocabulary. For passive words, we only realize and don't spend a lot of time to explain them. Students will research themselves by looking up in the dictionary or guessing from the context. Thus, we have to define which word...

I think Communicative approach has a relation with other methods. When I began to learn English, my teacher used to explain vocabulary and grammar from a text, then we mimick her to read it. Before teaching, she had an introduction which was very interesting. She had a good accent of a speaker of...

This is a good subject for the Vocabulary section, not for here. Antonyms for hollow: Full, solid, convex (hollow also means "concave")

Learning antonyms help you increse your own vocabulary!!

This time around, we deal with antonyms. I'll begin by posting one word - North. This is followed by the pair, "East or West"? Each pair has to be made up of two words with exactly opposite meanings. Hopefully this will be a vocabulary-building exercise and a fun game at the same...

Hi Jeff, this question is truly wonderful as it tests both your vocabulary and grammar The key to solving it is to read the question very very carefully. It gives to clues , Firstly the gramatically clue nevertheless. The adverbial phrase "nevertheless" is used to join two clauses with a...

Hello Jeff Is it a TOEFL vocabulary quiz? For me it's extremely difficult. Some words are rarely used in everyday English. I didn't know "disparage"(=belittle/discredit: antonym of 'flatter'), "egregious" (=very bad) and "scathe" (=damage). Furthermore this quiz seems to demand some knowledge of...

Creating little scenarios - or should I say scenarii - is a wonderful idea, it can enhance your imagination as well... Here's an address I was given here in EF: http://www.synonym.com/synonym/index.php Once you've got a word, you'll find there synonyms/antonyms which will help you get new and...

Hi Friend, Truely agreed what CalifJim said. Reading is vital to enlarge our vocabulary and knowing the right combination of english structure. Typically I'll be surfing through the net (reading news, acquiring information, attaining knowledge etc etc) while 2 to 3 helpful...