Conversation Questions and Activities to Aid in the - Mark's ESL World

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Conversation Questions and Activities to Aid in the Learning of English
Arranged according to tense, topic, and levels of difficulty
By Prof. Mark McDowell, M.A. Mark’s ESL World ~ http://www.marksesl.com
Create Your Own Similes .....................................................................................................................86
Word Grab with Songs .........................................................................................................................87
Add a Word ..........................................................................................................................................87
Time Indicators ....................................................................................................................................88
Who am I?? ..........................................................................................................................................89
"Tic Tac Toe" or "Noughts and Crosses" ............................................................................................89
VOCABULARY ~ SOME VITAL WORDS IN KOREAN ......................................................................... 90
LANGUAGE FORMS (VARIOUS STRUCTURES) ................................................................................. 91
SOME COMMON VERBS ............................................................................................................... 93
GRAMMAR ................................................................................................................................... 95
Parts of Speech .................................................................................................................................95
The Three Part Sentence .................................................................................................................96
Word Order .........................................................................................................................................97
Types of adverbs and their placement in a sentence ..................................................................98
Tenses in English ..............................................................................................................................99
COMMON PROBLEMS AND MISTAKES ......................................................................................... 101
A, An, The .........................................................................................................................................101
Grammar Rules for ESL students ....................................................................................................102
Konglish Problems ............................................................................................................................110
Infinitives...........................................................................................................................................112
Summary of infinitives without to ....................................................................................................115
Use a Gerund or Infinitive? ..............................................................................................................116
Pronunciation Problems ...................................................................................................................117
Some Supplemental Grammar Issues ...............................................................................................117
Samples of Student Mistakes ............................................................................................................119
SPEECH IMPROVEMENT .............................................................................................................. 120
Confused terms ...............................................................................................................................121
Overused Expressions: ..................................................................................................................121
Try Using Tongue Twisters to help improve clarity ....................................................................122
Famous tongue twisters: ................................................................................................................122
CHRONIC PROBLEM AREAS -- WRITE YOUR MISTAKES IN THE APPROPRIATE BOX: ........................ 123
COMMON EXPRESSIONS AND IDIOMS .......................................................................................... 124
Greeting People ...............................................................................................................................124
I like it ................................................................................................................................................124
I don’t like it ......................................................................................................................................124
It’s easy .............................................................................................................................................124
Male / female things ........................................................................................................................124
I don’t believe it ................................................................................................................................125
Food ..................................................................................................................................................125
Philosophical ....................................................................................................................................125
How you feel ....................................................................................................................................125
Sleep .................................................................................................................................................126
Work ..................................................................................................................................................126
Exclamations ....................................................................................................................................126
Casual or friendly ............................................................................................................................126
Descriptions – Good .......................................................................................................................126
Descriptions – Bad ..........................................................................................................................127
Drinking .............................................................................................................................................127
Drugs .................................................................................................................................................127
Money ...............................................................................................................................................127
Irritated ..............................................................................................................................................127
Encouragement ...............................................................................................................................128
Non- friendly .....................................................................................................................................128
Death .................................................................................................................................................128
Miscellaneous ..................................................................................................................................128