Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / November 2004

I am surprised to find that "out of" has the meaning same as "because
of". See the sentence:
They joined the orgnization out of interest.
It equals:

Rany boskie, pierwszy raz w moim freelancerstwie spotykam się z "czymś" o
czym tylko słyszałem w teorii - chyba miałem szczęście, bo dotąd albo
przekonywałem klientów do swoich wizji albo... nie musiałem przekonywać bo
mi ufali.

A student recently asked about the phrase, "approach to doing smth."
Our case was, "What is your approach to dealing with this problem?"
How would you explain the use of "to" followed by an
-ing form? I was thinking of the following explanation:

hello, first time here :)
"Fancy abusing is not a crime" - is this sentence correct?
Thanks for any suggestions.

Dear Django Cat,
As we inquired about using "forum" or "newsgroups" in language class at the
univerisity, this newsgroup was recommended to us. We will try to flag our
comments with an "EES" subject line. Unfortunately, the computers in the

Teachers tell students to practice reading. Students then run across
many words they've never heard pronounced. As they see the word, they
mangle the pronounciation. How important is it to first be familiar
with the pronounciation of a word before learning its meaning?

The sentence is :
The plane is coming in to land.
I cannot understand the form of "come in to". How here comes "to"
after "in"?

I'm french and I will soon make a UK site and i'm searching a person who got
ICQ or MSN for
help me ponctually to correct some words or sentence that are not in a good
english ... just one or two question per week i will not bored you I promise

Hi Friends,
My Chinese name is Guochun Zhang. Could you help me find a good
English name which has similar pronunciation to my first name Guochun,
read as ['guo 'tsun].

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

Dear Students of "English in Everyday Situations,"
Is there any one activity in class you like most? Is there one you would
suggest changing? As this is a new course, I am interested in your
constructive comments.

Dear Angela,
The last year i have lived in Rome. The first time together with a really
italian family. One time at the beginning i wanted to do me some noodles. So
i have taken a big Topf? with water and into the water i have taken oil and

why is it so hard to teach SOV EFL students that English is a SVO language?

i don't know what to say.
Sorry Ina

at the moment I´m working on my diploma thesis. Beside writing the thesis, I
have to publish an english paper.
Last week I had a question on grammar and every person, I asked in my
working group, wasn´t sure about the answer. Unfortunately I coulndn´t find