I'm sorry, but I cannot think of any word to define the mistake with 'alloweded'-- it is just a slip of the tongue, it seems to me. No exercise is needed; just explain to the student what has happened (the student has duplicated the -ed ending in

David schrieb: David schrieb: I find the last sentence incomprehensible, if ... could interpret for those of us who don't come Yorkshire. Well, even the trolling "blue sow" managed to pick out that I'd made a transposition error

I am sorry that I'm not writing to you in our beautiful mother tongue, but I want also other people to understand. Being an experienced student of English, I can tell you that what is common, is not always considered correct and the other way

Is this what you're after? Maybe be too TEFL-ey/basic for your audience (sorry if you've thought of these already) - clean up our board: after a particularly messy lesson, work with students to organise the board into a set of clear notes

If you think about the meanings of "allophone" and "phoneme," you'll realize this is an impossible request. What "others"? Hmm, sorry if my request was unclear. By "others," I meant what are the possible

No, sorry. Will La Salle do? This is a common toponymical element in the Chicago area. Probably some French explorer/fur trader or such. The proper AmE pronunciation is /l@'s&l/ ("la Sal") (as in Didn't need no welfare state