Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / February 2004

My colleague at work asked me to publish a weekly report on a corporate web
site. Upon completion I responded to her message with just "done!" in the
message body. She replied me with "loads of thanks to you". Having never
heard of such construction I tried to correct her thinkning ...

I'm sorry for my English...
I come from Poland and I have one question to you.
Do you know how to say (in English) word sth like:
money-grubber/penny-pincher/jirk/parsimonious person/miser/scourage....

I read below sentences from "Knowledge News".
Today's subject was 'self-proclaimed'. - I guess :^)
=======================================================================
Q. After World War II, an American bombardier made it big with a 1961

hi, i've a language enquiry. How should i say, purpose to hold cash or
purpose for holding cash? In my english usage book says for +ing form
could be used to express the purpose of things, but i dont know
whether that thing concern only with tangible stuff or it also concern

We offer to you our courses of english in England.
With tuition, lodging and activities.
If you are considering an English course we can offer either a Standard (20
lessons, 15 hours) or Intensive (32 lessons, 24 hours) course.

I am interesting in text-to-speech apps currently -- you know -- when
you feed some text into program and it speaks it out. These apps
use so-called text-to-speech engine to work, which is the core
component, because the output voice quality -- the "realness" --

What's the difference between "twin room" and "double room"?
Thanks.

The pronunciation of "r" is very difficult for some asians, especially  r in
the middle of a word such as " murder". I am wondering how  ESL teachers
teach this pronunication in a graphic way.
Some book suggests that the tongue should follow the following action.

A school to his perspective customers:
"Our teachers are highly motivated *to* your success in learning"
or
"Our teachers are highly motivated *by* your success in learning"

I am a little bit confused with a sentence weather  I should use ' by ' or '
with ' here is the sentence.
he started his business with magneto production or
he started his business by magneto production

hi, i'd like know how to pronounce stamp coz the phonetic translation
of that word appears in several dictionaries as [staemp] but i asked
to some english people who say that they pronounce it as stamp.
The other word is odd, which phonetic translation is [a:d]but i heard

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask these questions; if it isn't,
please tell me where I should ask them.
Thank you.
Does "public school" mean exactly the same thing in Great Britain as it does

hello, i've got a couple of language inquires. How should you say? I'm
really interested in getting it before november or i'm really
interested to get it before nombere? what is the difference?
What is the difference between inquires and enquires?

for example:
The figure would be higher but for delays in the delivery of the planes.
Can I use "except for" instead?

hi, all,
I have encountered this expression:
'There wasn't so much a dime in the kitty'
What is the meaning of this experssion? (Full paragraph can be