Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / August 2004

Could you, if possible, repost your latest reply. It was flushed from my
news server before I got a chance to read it. Been away from the groups
lately. I can see the header but I cannot access the actual article.
"Bad article number" is the server's reason.

This is a strange book but it's a scream!  
Here's the book page:
http://www.abacus-es.com/sat/
See if you can guess from the index (below) what it is all about.  

My tutors told me to stick my tongue tip between my teeth to pronouce the
'l' in shoulder. It seems weird for me and I am skeptical.
Do you put your tongue between your teeth or just touch the ceiling of your
mouth to pronounce 'l'? The later way is how I did before.

http://www.sunherald.com/mld/thesunherald/living/9347623.htm
Using the comma correctly is often a matter of tempo
Not long ago I ended one of my scholarly dissertations with an
admonitory word: "Let us think upon these things, and go in peace."

Sometimes I see English texts that might look something like:  "...and
then the actor [Mr. Smith] said..." which makes perfect sense.
And then, all of a sudden, texts may appear that might look something
like:  "...the director said that [Mr. Smith] instead should go

I went to the link given by Django Cat,
http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/about.html#
and I click lounch English library ->liquid->[l]
The picture on the left shows the tongue touching the ridge of palate.

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Christian homestay is available for female students.
The House:
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In a popular chinese newspaper here in Hong Kong, there is a debate of
English usage going on. I do not know who is right or wrong, so I'd like
to have people here to comment on it.
This is a first issue:

Hi, all,
Second issue:

recently I have written a poem for my newborn son - in English -
though this is not my native language.
Could you please glance over it to look for big mistakes as to the
grammar etc?

are Montessori educators and have created a series of books for young
children to read at home or in school, and then have the second
experience with a cd-rom of the same story.  I would like some more
8-12 sentence stories aimed at a young child 3-7 years old where they

I have a doubt, What is the correct way to pronounce 'age'?
I have heard people to say the final syllable like the first syllable
of 'cheap', but according to dictionary it must sound like the first
syllable of 'just'.

Who was the first man who wrote this?