PDF error correction slides with answers and explanations. For classroom use.
Building a Framework for Explaining Things
Recommended steps and materials to help students deliver an oral explanation on topics of their choice. PDFs included.
Language Instruction: Like Candy or Like Medicine?
Back in 1964, Mary Poppins sang on screen, “Just a spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in the most delightful way.” I’ve sometimes thought about this balance between the sweet and the bitter in language learning. Not every step in the process is a snap, nor do birds chirp merrily on the windowsill…
Building Confidence and Accuracy with Irregular Verbs
Recommended listening tasks to build confidence and accuracy with the simple past forms of irregular verbs. (PDF inlcuded)
Plucking the Blooms of Poetry
Suggested activities based on Emily Dickinson’s poem “A Light exists in Spring” (PDFs and JPEGs included)
Snacking on Syntax
Practice fixing common errors at the sentence level. Classroom slides included.
The Acoustics Is or Are? Practice with Aggregate and Collective Nouns
PDF and JPEG classroom slides to practice collective and aggregate nouns.
Gaining Comfort and Confidence with Collocations
Classroom slides to practice collocations with prepositions
A Step-by-Step Guide to Grammar?
A set of classroom slides with 15 exercise items targeting the formation of compound modifiers.
Subject-Verb Agreement: Beyond Simple Sentences
Lack of subject-verb agreement is a common mistake, but errors in judgment with subject-verb agreement extend to inconsistency with reference words and combinations of indefinite articles with plural nouns. Doubts center around the concept of number. These additional mistakes can span two or more clauses. For that reason, I’ve created a writing task that goes…
How to Fix Awkwardly Worded Sentences
A 12-question exercise to work on syntax.
Developing Writing Skills Beyond Sentences
Help students learn to identify weaknesses at the paragraph level. Classroom slides included!
