By Vocabulary, Synonyms

Re: I Want To Be Fluent English Speaker How Please?

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...

Re: What makes English so difficult to learn?

As a native English speaker (well perhaps not entirely native, I was born in Russia and immigrated to the U.S. at the tender age of 7) I would have to say that apart from the obviously difficult aspects of the English language such as tenses, an unorthodox phonetic system employed in the language...

Re: Vocabulary questions

Doll wrote: Hello everyone, I was doing a vocabulary test and I couldn't solve a few questions. Unfortunately, I don't have the key. I hope you will help me. Thanks in advance. Here are the questions: 1- Not only did she ..... from Christianity to Islam but she also changed her...

Vocabulary questions

Hello everyone, I was doing a vocabulary test and I couldn't solve a few questions. Unfortunately, I don't have the key. I hope you will help me. Thanks in advance. Here are the questions: 1- Not only did she ..... from Christianity to Islam but she also changed her name before...

Re: Is there a synonym list available as text file?

I have a new application for auttocorrect, which is normally used to instantly correct common spelling errors such as changing teh to the. You may also know that you can add your own entries and even add abbreviations. When I type "fi", for instance appears on the screen. fe = for example; st...

Re: schools

Saska wrote:didn't know where to post this ... Can someone explain to me, the meaning of the words in Br. Eng and Am. En? state school = funded by the state elementary school = primary/junior school - ages 5-11 years secondary school = senior school - ages 11-16+ comprehensive...

Re: improve / increase

Yes Tanit, you can expand your vocabulary. Knowledge: information, facts, skill, wisdom, learning, know-how...many possible synonyms depending on context of use.

Re: improve / increase

Vincent Teo wrote:Can i say, (a) Reading helps to improve / increase my vocabulary. Yes, and you can also 'build' your vocabulary, for example. (b) Reading helps us in vocabulary. Your first sentence is better. What is the similar meaning of "knowledge"? I don't understand your question. ...

Re: How To Teach Vocabulary

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...

Re: Communicative English

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...