The English teachers voice

While your TOEFL Listening score measures many different factors, from your understanding of the prompts to your ease with English, there are a few tips that will serve you well on each and every task! Here are some helpful TOEFL Listening tips and tricks for achieving a higher score on test day. Pay Attention to Intonation Recognize the intonational rhythm of English. You don’t have to study intonation as much as you would for  TOEFL Speaking . However, knowing the  tones of important words and sentence transitions  is key to understanding what you hear. Distinguish Between Sounds Be able to hear and recognize the sounds in English. You don’t need to study every sound as intensely as you would for spoken pronunciation. But you should make sure you can hear the difference between slightly different but distinct sounds in English, such as “d” and “t,” “b” and “v,” “l” and “r,” etc. Practice Paraphrasing and Inferring Meaning As you listen to TOEFL lectures, con...

  Did you know that dice can be a great way to increase motivation and spice up boring lessons and exercises in class? Dice can be bought at any dollar store in the US  in a pack of 10 for $1. I’m sure that they are also cheap in other countries. Because of the unpredictable nature of dice, there is something interesting about how they motivate students. Here are 10 ways to use dice to make your class more fun and interesting. 1.   Use dice to choose students for activities . Using addition or multiplication,  2 to 3 dice can be used to help the teacher have a random way of picking students for activities when each student is assigned a number. 2.  Use dice to help choose groups.   Though groups may get be a bit lopsided at times, using one die for each student can work if you have odd and even groups.  That way there is a greater likelihood that you will split the class into groups evenly. 3.  Use dice in conjunction with book exercises...

 <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6385949638069410"      crossorigin="anonymous"></script> Phonics is a way of teaching children how to read and write. It helps children hear, identify and use different sounds that distinguish one word from another in the English language. Written language can be compared to a code, so knowing the sounds of individual letters and how those letters sound when they’re combined will help children decode words as they read. Understanding phonics will also help children know which letters to use when they are writing words. Phonics involves matching the sounds of spoken English with individual letters or groups of letters. For example, the sound  k  can be spelled as c, k, ck or ch. Teaching children to blend the sounds of letters together helps them decode unfamiliar or unknown words by sounding them out. For example, when a child is taught the sounds fo...