Listening

Now in you tube we find other very important tool for listening, it is the CC, that's to say, the video brings subtitles in English that you can follow  while listening. 

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From Obama speech

PRESIDENT BARACK Thank you. Thank you.

CROWD: Obama! Obama! Obama! Obama!

My fellow citizens: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors.

I thank President Bush for his service to our nation...

... as well as the generosity and cooperation he has shown throughout this transition.

Forty-four Americans have now taken the presidential oath.

The words have been spoken during rising tides of prosperity and the still waters of peace. Yet, every so often the oath is taken amidst gathering clouds and raging storms. At these moments, America has carried on not simply because of the skill or vision of those in high office, but because We the People have remained faithful to the ideals of our forebears, and true to our founding documents.

So it has been. So it must be with this generation of Americans.

That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age.

Homes have been lost, jobs shed, businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly, our schools fail too many, and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet.

These are the indicators of crisis, subject to data and statistics. Less measurable, but no less profound, is a sapping of confidence across our land; a nagging fear that America's decline is inevitable, that the next generation must lower its sights.

• Make your own questions of comprehension to your students 
  
  

The Article THE

Uses of The - When?

• When we know who or what we speak.
•     Example:  Do you remember the day we went to New York?
  
• When it is clear what we refer.
  Example:  Where is the shop your mother works in? 
• To refer to place names
    Example:  We visited the United States
• With plural nouns: seas, oceans, canals and rivers.
    Example:  The Pennines. 
• Place of amusement or emblem places. 
  
  
• Example:  We visited the Eiffel tower
  

  
  
• With the particle "same",
    Example:  Your dress is the same as mine. 
• With the particle "of"
    Example:  The house of Commons 
• Cardinal points: north, south, east, west.
    Example:  The south of France 
• Superlative Adjectives
    Example:  My dog is the best dog in the world 
• With the verb go +to: entertainment places (theater, film), medical consultants, legal consultants (lawyers, etc.), places that servant meeting point (airport, city center ...), shops (pharmacies, bakeries, etc) 
• Example: We go to the airport.  

When omit The

• Speaking  in general. 
• Television, meal hours, days of the week, months of the year, the ,the years,
  Example:  I don’t like what is on TV tonight. 
• They will call me next week.
• Before people names 
• With the verb go + to: work, school, university, college, hospital, prison, church, bed
• The verb go : home
• Place  names, there are some  exceptions.
• City names, there are some  exceptions.  

Grammar Exercise

Choose any text at the students’ level or a little above. Ask the students to put a ring around all the verbs, a box around all the plural nouns, ask them to underline the adjectives and double underline the adverbs. This can help students to understand the classes of different words and to understand the structure of sentences.You can do a similar exercise with different verb tenses.

Building vocabulary

How many words do you explain and teach to each class during a school year? How many do they actually learn? Improve your students’ active vocabularies by drawing a vertical line about 40-50 cms from the right hand edge of the board. Use this space to make a note of all new words introduced during a lesson. At the end of the lesson copy down the words and make the students do the same. Every two weeks use these words for a quick vocabulary or spelling test. Encourage students to use the new words in their writing and speech.

Vocabulary Exercise

Vocabulary Exercise

How often do these clothes have these things? Put a tick 4 for always, and a cross 7 for never, and a question mark ? for sometimes. Belt, collar, sleeves, pockets, lapels, buttons — jeans, raincoat, blouse, night dress, track suit, waist coat, gloves, sandals, sweater, scarf,

Ideas in English teaching/Learning

Many ideas in English teaching/Learning

Silent Listening

When your students have finished studying a video sequence, play it again with the sound turned down to zero. Ask the students to try to hear the dialogue inside their heads while they are watching the video. If the students need help gradually turn up the sound from time to time so that students can check that they are ‘hearing’ the correct dialogue.