Using Word Collocations, Idioms, Figures of Speech, or Collquial Phrases

Ever wondered if you were using that new phrase you heard correctly? There is a way to check with a corpus searching tool. These databases are usually used by researchers within the field of corpus linguistics, but they are also great for English learners wanting to try out new phrases or correct word order errors.

This is a video introducing one of the corpus at http://corpus.byu.edu/

Dining Out Phrases

ORDERING

I'll have...
I'd like...
Could I have...?

SUGGESTING

What about...?
How about...?
Try the...

COMMENTING ON THE FOOD

It looks good.
This is so good. How's yours?
It doesn't look very...
What's that? What are those?

Image via Wikipedia

Signs and Notices Lesson

Please view the video and tell me which is the most interesting or confusing sign you saw.

Words for Zero

Practice with zero- nought and nil.egg on Aviary.

If there is an error playing the file, click the text below the mp3 widget

1: Like my new shirt? It cost me nil.

2: You got it for nought? (Usually Americans will say nothing?)

2: Yeah, a third of the people that went to
Kohls yesterday had received a buy one
get one free coupon in the mail.

2: Basically, one out of three people that
visited the store were only their to get
free merchandise.

(*Other words used to describe zero are zip, zilch & nada(Spanish))

Lesson on pronouncing the short i

Listen to the song the hear to difference between /i/ /I/



Did You Feel The Mountains Tremble?

Did you feel the mountains tremble?
Did you hear the oceans roar?
When the people rose to sing of
Jesus Christ the risen one

Did you feel the people tremble?
Did you hear the singers roar?
When the lost began to sing of
Jesus Christ the risen one

And we can see that God you're moving
A mighty river through the nations
And young and old will turn to Jesus
Fling wide your heavenly gates
Prepare the way of the risen Lord

Open up the doors and let the music play
Let the streets resound with singing
Songs that bring Your hope
Songs that bring Your joy
Dancers who dance upon injustice

Did you feel the darkness tremble?
When all the saints join in one song
And all the streams flow as one river
To wash away our brokenness

And here we see that God you're moving
A time of Jubilee is coming
When young and old return to Jesus
Fling wide your heavenly gates
Prepare the way of the risen Lord

Lesson on Numbers

Numbers Practice with Centigrade and Celcius.egg on Aviary.

Directions: You will be using page 43 of your lesson to complete these exercises.

Write the score of 14 to zero using another word for the word zero (See page 43).

How many ways can you say the number 103 in writing?

What is this number in written form (word form) 43/56? (See page 43)

Let's practice with the words Celcius and Centigrade which basically have the same meaning. If your house is -25० Celcius (Sell-see-us)
it is negative twenty-five degrees Centigrade (Sen-ti-grayde) and that is freezing!

Go to http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html
1. Click the word "monophthongs".
2. Click the word "front".
2. Finally, press the symbol "I" and practice saying this vowel sound with the video. It is the one with which you struggled a little.

Ordinal Numbers - A Reading

Reading_on_Numbers.egg on Aviary.

I suppose my life will be very different from now at forty. People in their forties have a lot more responsibility. I do not remember what I was like in my twentieth year of life, do you? I can't really imagine what I will be like in my thirtieth year, much less my 90th, can you?

After you listen to the dialogue. Play it a second time and read along with the speaker. And then go back to practice "-th" at: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/frameset.html
Again click on these symbols (under "fricative) and see if you can match the video these symbols: ð and θ
*If you have a small hand mirror use it while practicing.