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How to Use Many, Much, A lot of, and Lots of - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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The four expressions "many", "much", "a lot of" and "lots of" are widely used but often confused. Let's take a look at their differences and when to use which expression correctly.
The word "many" is used with countable, plural nouns in questions and negative sentences.
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"Much" is used with uncountable nouns to indicate a large quantity. It is mostly used in negative questions or sentences.
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A lot of means a large number of amount. It can be used for countable or uncountable nouns (negative, positive and question).
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Quantifiers in English - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ A Lot Of, A Few, A Little, A Bit…
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What are quantifiers? We use quantifiers (A Lot Of, A Few, A Little, A Bit…) when we want to give information about the number of something: how much or how many. Let's take a look at it below.
Quantifiers form a sub-category under determiners. They are adjectives or phrases that answer two possible questions:
1. How many?
2. and How much?
For example: a few, a little, much, many, most, some, any, enough, etc., are quantifiers.
Quantifiers that describe quantity include a little, none, a few, etc. Some of these are used only with:
Countable nouns – These are the nouns that answer the question "How many?"
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Main Points of Teaching Grammar ITTT - TEFL Blog
Elizaveta Pachina
Teaching Ideas
Grammar has for all time been vital to teaching a foreign language. It was even tantamount with teaching a foreign language. However, for some time after the increase of communicative language teaching the grouping of grammar in the curriculum was fairly vague. Some linguists declared that it was not essential to teach grammar, that it would expand robotically. Nowadays it is widely established that grammar is a vital resource in with language communicatively.
What does grammar teach?
When focusing on a grammar formation the educator considers the following:
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Top ESL Weather Vocabulary List - ✔️ ✔️ ✔️ ITTT
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Teaching weather vocabulary early on in an English course is a great idea because it is something that the students can practice on a daily basis. Especially during daily warm ups, teachers can always ask about the weather and weather vocabulary comes in handy during other activities too.
During your usual warm up, try and get the students talking about the seasons. Then, ask students what season they like best and see if anyone can explain why. This is a great way to elicit some of the weather vocabulary you plan to practice during the lesson. When certain vocabulary words come up, write them on the board. Depending on the level of your students, you can also talk about different activities people do during particular... [Read more]
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Teaching multiple tenses might sound frightening as teaching a single tense can sometimes be a challenge on its own. However, while it might seem difficult the first time you try it, it isn't as daunting as you would think. When teaching more than one tense at a time there are two main factors to consider: which tenses to teach together and what language level you are teaching.
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I have been working in China as an English teacher almost for half a year. When the outbreak began, I decided to stay in China. At first, I thought it would be like a seasonal flu quarantine back in my country, Ukraine, when schools are closed for just a week or two. However, the situation got worse and I realized that it might be safer to stay inside my city than to go through the train stations and airports.
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