Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / May 2004

Hi, it's me again! :-)
This translation is really killing me! Chemistry isn't really my line -
well, at least not sewage and pollution control. Along with my computer
science I have a lot of medicine on my time table, but *not* this

(This article is talking about study habits.)
"... Then you should decide on good,regular times for studying."
What about this?
"...Then you should decide on good,regular time for studying?" or "...

On this links below I put cover letter. I am not in English so there
might be a lot of mistakes, but I don't see it.
http://galaxy.uci.agh.edu.pl/~wies/cl/CL.pdf
or in html

I hope I am in the right group for this question. I couldn't find any
other group that looked right on the server I am using, but if I messed
it up please let me know - nicely. :-)
I am translating a text from Germany to English and stuck with one

Hey folkes!
I am looking for technical or chemical terms that describe the removal
oder extraction of iron and manganese from water (not both at the same
time).

I looking for English course.  Do you know any course with I can listen
when I ride on bicycle.
I commute to work over 1h and I could listen from walkman, but I don't
know witch course is the best.

Sorry could you help me with this one as well?
The player is a Snooker player..   :-)
"..., but when you take your eye off the ball, you can miss anything."
Thanks a lot...

We are hosting a student from South Korean who would like to learn
English. We are looking for a good school for her to learn
conversational English.  She will be staying with us in Vancouver for
about 3 to 5 months and is looking for a good full time English course.

The last paragraph in John Steinbeck's _Of Mice and Men_ reads: Curley
and Carlson looked after them. And Carlson said, "Now what        
the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys?"    
Can you tell me what is meant by "What is eating two guys?" ?

My company, Racam Electronics, is currently engaged in designing a new
Language Lab and we are now looking for industry feed back on our
proposed design. We are seeking teachers, and other industry
professionals, who can spare 3 to 5 minutes to complete a short, on line

I've lived in US a few years ago as a AFS exchange student, and while I
still maintaning some good vocabulary and speech, my grammar is not doing so
well.
I have a reasonable level of English and I feel frustrated going back to

I hope I'm not violating any rules of this group with this post. If so, I
apologize.
Anyway, here goes: I made a website dedicated to English teaching and
learning. Teachers can create their own courses there, with lesson

I need to do some swotting on L2 learning / acquisition.
Could anyone suggest a reading list on the subject?  I'm looking for the
kind of thing you would have to read on an introductory course, at
university level,

today I was scolded in school (I am a teacher) for using the phrase "I
feel well" since it is forbidden to use an adverb after a sensory
verb, like feel.
However I still have the feeling that it is perfectly legitimate to

Can you tell me what cartoon casinos are? I searched the google search
engine for it and looked it up in a few different dictionaris in vain.
Those words were found in the following sentence.
What I'd always liked about Biloxi was the decay, the things falling