Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / September 2004

It is now the case that to apply for British Naturalisation you need
to have either passed ESOL Entry 3 Level (or better) or some sort of
equivalent.
Unforunately the IND website neglects to say what are acceptable

Is this the first handheld pronunciation diagnosis system?
  www.readsay.com/pro.htm
"The ReadSay PROnounce System listens to reading out loud and diagnoses
pronunciation.  This can help learn to read and speak English.  The

i looking for information about english idioms connected with animals
ORGIN.

Could someone, please, help me determine wors functions (Subject, Object,
Predicate, Adverbial, Complement to subject, Complement to object) in these
sentences???
Thank you.

I am already in Europe and I am not TEFL certified, but would like to
find work as a teacher, tutor, or language school assistant. Anyone
know where I can take the weekend course? Preferably in Central
Europe? I am currently in Munich. Thanks.

I teach English in the Netherlands. Our school uses the "Tune In" method,
which we will have to continue to use for another couple of years. I am
looking for the address of the publisher (SMD Educatieve Uitgevers) or for
copies of the audio CDs for Volumes 2 and 3 (for ...

Which is gramatically correct?
"I feel badly for the family."
"I feel bad for the family."
My feeling is that the former is correct.

"that that you do not know" in italian is "ignoto" but in english?
There is a word for "that that you do not know" ?
Thanks.
PS: "ignoto" is not "unknown"

I have a question to you.
when I read English book, sometimes distance is in the singular or
plural form.
It is hard to know what kind of situation I should use distance as

googling "all Lombard Street to a China orange" I found the definition "long
odds"
or "heavy odds"
but what those mean? high probability or low probability?

We are hiring home-based ESL teachers.
Contract job. If you are an English native speaker and
pronunciation is good and clear, and you have free time, you are
qualified.

can anyone tell me which old english poem has a line that goes
something like: man's life is like a bird that flies in through one
window and flies out of another?
thanks.

I read this one in high school 30 years go. (Required reading). Can't
remember name or author.
Female narrator talking about a boy she knew who was one of the few people
she had ever met with *integrity*. He was chopping wood to earn $ to buy his

Can someone please help me review a paper draft? I have spent more than four
months in writing it, but I know there are lots of grammatical errors in it
because of my English writing capability. It's a 5000-word technical paper
related to signal processing and power systems. I do ...

Hi friends, I am back,
I am studying the pronunciation of past tense, I found these rules:
1. If the final sound of the word is voiced, add /d/
2. If the final sound of the word is voiceless, add /t/