Wow, we speak English!

Δευτέρα 15 Οκτωβρίου 2018

Internet Friends around Europe say hello

My fifth grade students created these lovely posters

saying hello to their internet friends in many European languages!

Can you say hello in these languages?
And what a fantastic wordcloud they make!

Class E1

Class E2

Κυριακή 14 Οκτωβρίου 2018

Famous English Proverbs

Proverbs are defined as "short expressions of popular wisdom".

They convey the meaning in a concise, right to the point manner.

"Practice makes perfect" is one of my favourite proverbs

that I keep repeating to my students.

Actions speak louder than words.
What you do is more important than what you say

A picture is worth a thousand words.
An image can tell a story better than words

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
What is “beautiful” is different for each person.

Honesty is the best policy.
It’s always better to tell the truth than it is to lie.

Knowledge is power.
The more you know, the more powerful you can be in different areas of your life.

These and many more with their definitions can be found
in a comprehensive list in this link by engVid.

There is one for almost every situation!!

Πέμπτη 11 Οκτωβρίου 2018

How many verb tenses are there in English?

How many different verb tenses are there in a language like English?
At first, the answer seems obvious — there’s past, present, and future.

But it isn't quite that simple.

In this TEDed lesson, Anna Ananichuk explains how thanks to something called grammatical aspect, each of those time periods actually divides further.