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    Books that can help you improve your English
    Reading is an excellent way to improve your language skills. But you have to be willing to take your time with it and choose a book that will actually help you improve your language. For example, I once taught a student who loved to read, but she was reading a Dan Brown book and when I asked her if she understood all of the vocabulary in the book, she said no, she used to just skip over those parts. So she wasn't really learning anything. My advice would be to either keep a dictionary close by so that you can look each word up, (even better still, something that has a voice recording so that you can also hear how the word is being said) or don't choose a book that's too advanced for you, start with something simple.

    Here are some great examples of books that come highly recommended by most ESL teachers:

    <ol><li>Roald Dahl books such as Matilda, The BFG, Charlie and the chocolate factory and many more awesome reads. </li><li>The Harry Potter series</li><li>The Hunger Games series</li><li>The Maze Runner series</li><li>Thirteen Reasons Why</li><li>The Divergent series</li><li>A Wrinkle in Time </li><li>The Chronicles of Narnia</li><li>Where the Wild Things Are</li><li>Murder on the Orient Express (If you're looking for a bit of a challenge)</li></ol>

    These are just some suggestions, I'd love to hear from ESL learners though. What books have you read, loved and learned from? :)




    July 8, 2020
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    I agree with Susanne, but it would mostly be in the past tense so it would be better to say "I tried to call Tom yesterday, but the call was rejected or he hung up on me" OR you could just say "he didn't answer the call"
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    July 8, 2020
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    Hi Sasha, Correspondence is correct, some people call it a thread like an email thread for example, but in my opinion correspondence is the best.
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    July 8, 2020
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    The best way to say this is "like yours" if you want to use 'as' you could say something like "the same as yours" but personally I still feel that like is better and easier.
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    May 13, 2020
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    English movies to watch
    Watching English movies is a great way to learn English and improve your vocabulary (as long as you don't have the subtitles in your language). Here are some of my suggestions for good movies that can get you started:
    <ul><li>The king's speech - this could be a bit difficult to follow at times so I would only recommend this to those who have a good vocabulary and are looking to improve their pronunciation. </li><li> Despicable me 1, 2 and, 3 - Most animations are excellent for beginner to advanced English students, they are easy enough to follow and they're usually only an hour and half so they don't have very complicated plots. I'm suggesting the despicable me movies, but there really are so many to choose from. </li><li>The fast and the furious - If you don't really like animations, then you can also try some action movies like that fast and the furious franchise. Actions like these or even Olympus has fallen are pretty clear and easy to follow. </li><li>The jungle book - Live-actions movies are very popular nowadays and they are really great options for the whole family to enjoy.</li></ul>

    It's important that you choose something that you would enjoy, because you would pay more attention to the details of the movie then. See if you can add English subtitles instead of your language, that way you can read the words and hear them being said at the same time.

    What are some of your favourite English movies to watch?
    May 5, 2020
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    Neither are 100%, but they're very close. You can say "these deals do not derive from the need of money from a company" You could also say, "These deals do not derive from the rising need for money of a company" however when you say it like that the sentence is a little awkard and might be a bit difficult for many to understand exactly what you're trying to say. A rewording will make the sentence clearer and and easier to understand.
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    May 4, 2020
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    Wow those are quite challenging sentences, I'm very impressed. Well done!
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    April 30, 2020
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    (a). he buys six apples , she eats six apples, I can say that she eats as many apples as he buys. YES (b). the number of people here is as many as that of dogs there. ARE AS MANY AS THAT OF THE DOGS. (c). you make as much money he steals form your home. YOU MAKE AS MUCH MONEY AS HE STEALS FROM YOUR HOME (d). you love her to as such extent to whichTom does, which is just well because she is so ugly that I don't like her. YOU LOVE HER AS MUCH AS TOM DOES (EASIER) OR TO THE SAME EXTENT AS TOM (e). I ate his three apples ,but he spent as many days on trying to steal as many my radios. BUT HE SPENT AS MANY DAYS TRYING TO STEAL MY RADIOS (f). you beat the pig three timeS , I beat the drum twelve times , so I can say: you beat the pig two-fourth as many times AS I do the drumS. (g). Tom knows two girl friends of Jack's, but she knows twenty boy friends of Lily's. That is to say, she knows ten times as many boy friends of Lily's as Tom does girl friends of Jack's. YES
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    April 30, 2020
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    Talking about network teaching

    Due to the spread of new coronavirus <s>pneumonia</s>, the school can not start normally. Therefore, we can only use online <s>the way of network </s> teaching to complete our <s>the</s> teaching tasks <s>of</s> for the semester. <s>The process of new things need to adapt</s>, It takes time to adapt to new things and online teaching <s>the new network mode also</s> has many problems in the early stages<s> teaching</s>. Teachers cannot<s> play</s> demonstrate course material, they cannot adapt to the empty classroom. I wasn't used to it in <s>at</s> the beginning of my online course. Because each class needs to <s>do</s> have different software, but also needs to check in before each class. No paper books, only electronic textbooks, it is not convenient to take notes. After a while, I began to like online teaching, because the presentation of information is <s>more</s> richer and more interesting than the usual classroom, it will grab my interest <s>attract me</s> more, so that I can participate more actively in the classroom, through (Lianmai?) and typing <s>to</s> the answer to the teacher's questions, network teaching has improved my classroom efficiency.
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    April 30, 2020
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    Your writing is very good. Just a few small mistakes, well done!
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    April 28, 2020
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