Micawber is right, but have your own articles on hand in case the student doesn't bring one.  In fact, the odds are s/he will "forget" to bring one more often than not.  I'd find something related to his/her job, profession, or

TEFL is, in fact, a profession, although not all of the people working in it are professionals.  I think that being a "professional" means trying to improve one's own teaching through training, keeping abreast of developments in the

Your example is more of a zero conditional; another example of this is, "When/If you heat ice, it melts." Meaning it happens all the time. A first conditional has a future element, like your example, "If you are organized, it will

The various grammar books by Raymond Murphy are indispensable. This is also a good one: http://www.amazon.com/Intermediate-Grammar-Form-Meaning-Student/dp/0194343669/sr=11-1/qid=1165611390/ref=sr_11_1/105-8701105-5991640

I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor I Will - The Beatles I Will Follow - U2 I Will Always Love You - Whitney Houston When Will I Be Loved? - Buddy Holly / Linda Rondstadt When Will I See You Again? - Three Degrees All oldies, but I don't know

Barbara is correct. If you were saying "Springfield, where my father grew up, has a population... " you would then require commas, because your reader may not realize that Springfield is a place, and so the defining clause explains this. But "the

I would delete all except the final article "the"; and definitely remove the comma following the dash, which is unnecessary and wrong. The "not only" is good. The final product is: These people should not only be identified with the set of

Generally, we apply to a place/person, and apply for a thing/position/loan, etc. So you apply for a car loan at the bank; you apply to the loan department at the bank. There's also the use of "apply to" that means something is/isn't relevant.