I’ve been telling teachers to use timelines for as long as I can remember, but, strangely enough, they used to play a lesser role in my own classroom practice. I believe this has a lot to do with my baffling inability to make sense of anything that bears the slightest resemblance to a map or a diagram. But some years ago I decided that it was time to put away my fear of shapes and patterns and dust off my old, long-forgotten verb tense timelines.
Language awareness
Common collocations: majority
If you look up the word majority in a good English-English dictionary, you’ll find lots of different adjective + noun collocations. But, according to corpus data, which adjectives does majority tend to attract? Watch this short video and find out. Follow me on instagram for more: @luiz.otavio.barros
Interesting pattern: be + not without + noun
Textbooks sometimes overlook common language patterns that every advanced student should know. Case in point: be + not without + noun. Watch the video and pay attention to the corpus data and the examples: Follow me on instagram for me: @luiz.otavio.barros
How do you pronounce the word ‘effects’?
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