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Common mistakes – Think or Thinking

EnglishGoes Team — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 04:30:34 +0000

In this lesson we focus on differences in meaning when the verb “think” is used in the simple present and present progressive. Level: intermediate.

This free English video made and presented by Jennifer, an American English teacher who is famous on youtube.com

TOEFL Speaking question 6 part 1 (4 samples)

EnglishGoes Team — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:50:38 +0000

Here are 3 samples of the TOEFL ibt Speaking question 6. In this question, you are asked to summarize a lecture on an academic topic. From my experience as a teacher, this is one of the hardest questions in the entire test, as it puts your note taking abilities to a test. You have to make sure that you take as much notes as you can, so that when the time to prepare comes, you have a lot of material to work with. As wit all the other questions, you will only hear the lecture once, so it is imperative that you take notes. Most of the time, the lecture provides you with two examples, studies, life experiences etc. Your job is to summarize 1: The main idea of the lecture 2: the two examples provided by the lecturer. 3: Some of the supporting details provided by the professor. You should also try to summarize by paraphrasing the content of the lecture. That is to say find other ways to say the same thing as the professor did. This is supposed to demonstrate your ability to retell information using your own words. So in other words, don’t repeat integrally what the lecturer has said. I wish you the best of luck!!!

Here is the link to the PDF speaking scoring grid
www.ets.org/Media/Tests/TOEFL/pdf/Speaking_Rubrics.pdf

It will give you a good idea of what they use to grade you

Reporting conditional statements

EnglishGoes Team — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 02:46:25 +0000

In this video you will learn something about the reporting conditional statement presented by Jennifer, an experienced ESL teacher. She has a great free series of ESL learning English on youtube and ESL cafe.

Topic: Reporting conditional statements. This is the sixth video in a series of lessons on reported (indirect) speech. Level: High intermediate to advanced.

Reported Speech (Yes-No Questions) – Grammar

EnglishGoes Team — Sun, 06 Jun 2010 09:31:34 +0000

In the following Video, we learn about a point of English Grammar: Reported Speech with Yes-No Questions. Reported Speech is one of the tricky English grammar rule for ESL learner from all over the world.

Articles – Places and Geographical Names

EnglishGoes Team — Sun, 30 May 2010 08:00:03 +0000

Topic: Using articles with places and geographical names. In Part 1, guidelines are presented to help learners understand the use of the definite article (THE) and the zero article (no article) when referring to places and specific geographical locations. Part 2 will summarize the guidelines and offer more practice.
This video is made by Jennifer – Who has great experience in ESL teaching.

English Vocabulary – Connotation

EnglishGoes Team — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 14:35:59 +0000

Vocabulary practice for the ADVANCED English language learner. In this lesson I explain the importance of knowing connotations (word associations), and I offer exercises to check your understanding. This is PART ONE of a lesson in two parts.

English Grammar – Phrasal Verbs & Compound Words

EnglishGoes Team — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:17:17 +0000

Topic: Compound words (nouns and adjectives) formed from phrasal verbs. Special attention is given to the pronunciation of the compound words (stress patterns).

Level: high intermediate to advanced

Free English Grammar Lesson 2 d – Conditional

EnglishGoes Team — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:46:16 +0000

This is the fourth lesson on conditionals. In this lesson we turn our attention to unreal conditional statements in the present time. Level: high intermediate – advanced.

Free English Grammar Lesson 2c – Conditional

EnglishGoes Team — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:41:11 +0000

This is the third lesson on conditionals. In this segment we look at conditional statements with “unless.” Level: high intermediate.

Free English Vocabulary – Lesson 5 – Colors

EnglishGoes Team — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 23:28:29 +0000

Free English Lessons for learning English vocabulary with American teachers.
Learning English Vocabulary expression is free for the advanced English language learner. Lesson 5 topic: Idioms and sayings related to colors.