Discussion Groups / ESL Teaching / October 2005

I work in a company that produces teaching materials for English
teachers and students in schools in Turkey. Some of the teachers who
use our materials are native speakers, but the vast majority are Turks.
I have a question for non-native English speakers who are teaching

Hi,everyone!
In order to communicate with others,how can i express the meanings of
following sentences:
I am a beginner and my major is computer network security.

Someone in this group may already have asked the question below, but
I've been wondering. I was nosing around in one of the topics here (on
teaching in Italy) and noticed a teacher complaining that he had to
learn formal grammar in order to teach English. A long-term participant

So rests the sky against Earth.  The dark still lake in the lap of the
forest.  As a husband embraces his wife's body in faithful tenderness,
so the bare ground and trees are embraced by the still, high, light of
the morning.

    I just wonder is there a list of 20,000 most frequently used English
words? I think my vocabulary is around 15,000 and I have no problem
reading English literature in general.  However, from time to time I met
unfamiliar words, so I think maybe I should simply spend sometime ...

I wanted to pick up these languages:
Japanese - learnt it for a few years
French - learnt it for 2 years in school
Korean - exposure via K-Pop culture

Need help with these sentences. What's wrong and why?
Everybody is entitled to their opinion.
Why is it you always have the biggest of the two apples?
Thanks.

Seldom do I see anyone, anymore, use "because" in everyday, informal
writing. More often I see "cuz" or "cos".  This irritates me. Exactly how
acceptable are these usages, if at all?
Another question is: Are the sentences above and the current sentence

I am trying to settle an argument and need a clear explanation between
"yes-no" question and "true-false" question.
I know one is an auxiliary verb question and the other is a statement
but I am having problems explaining and proving this to a year 4

Help me solve this arguement with my GF. The old 'apostrophe' addage!
I know that it replaces the 'i' for 'it is' and it replaces several other
letters in various words. I HATE it when folk use it incorrectly in
PLURALS.... Sausage's - Grrrrrrr. I also know that it is used to ...

We're going to launch our first online training module for ESL teachers
at http://www.eslsociety.com in the next week or week and a half.
The best part is, it will be free!
We'll be using a proprietary software that's separate from the website,

It drives me crazy.
"further" does not mean "farther"
RE

I just came across "forecasted" in a publication, and it does
seem to be written that way intentionally, and not a mistake.
I would have thought "forecast" is the only possible form.
Is "forcasted" considered correct ? And if so, is it correct

Resisting death, over-breeding, hoarding and gorging are expressions of
biological drives that are, under natural conditions, one-sided because
the control is provided by the environment.  Regenerative mechanism
within the organism may normally be controlled at the environmental