American-English was British-English, except that it was altered significantly by all of the various influences (immigrants/languages from other countries) that learned to speak it in America. Everyone in the UK knows how to communicate in English

can someone please help me to correcting my work. i know there are many grammar mistakes please help me ,.i am posting my work here Lesson / Activity a) Objective To learn and enforce new basic words according to the level of the

Those examples made your answer even better. English phonetics is the most interesting thing I've ever heard. When I started to learn english, I thought it was easy. Now it's my favourite hobbie. "If it's hard, then diserve to be

Welcome to EF. You can ask grammatical questions on this forum. There are several other forums for discussions, problems in pronunciation etc. You could start by learning that all words which are names of languages are capitalized in E nglish:

Peter Groves filted: If you utter a fully released /d/ in "handbag" (hand-bag) you're using a spelling pronunciation, which is normally a result ... been an everyday practice for a few centuries. Of course this doesn't quite

Native speakers of English don't, unless dictating to children. In ... or "handbag" (which in rapid speech is indistinguishable from "ham-bag"). I'm English and have just a vestige of a "d" in handsome and a

This debate really seems to be about two different things, spelling and pronunciation. The letter w (and y) is often used with other vowels (and sometimes alone as well) in spelling to reperesent a vowel sound . In the words hi and by , the letter

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 a word has one or two syllables it's usually spelled with "s" in both I've never heard any such rule. The only one I know is "did it originally, or through derivation via Latin ... in -izein". You are the first

Don Myers wrote on 20 Nov 2004: Teachers tell students to practice reading. Students then run across many words they've never heard pronounced. As they see the ... quickly pick out the word in a list be helpful even though there is no meaning