You can set the sort order of messages? Just click on the link in the date column. Your preferences will be remembered, so you don't have to do it again when you return.
Hello everyone, It's been awhile since I've posted. I'd just like to say that I have managed to get through to my students. Fortunately, the "block" was...
Hallo Costadina, Glad to hear that you're making progress, persistence always pays off in the end if you're doing something worthwhile I think. As for your...
Hi Costadina You said In my opinion, coursebooks shouldn't be used to determine the levels of each student. It may sound crazy, but maybe there shouldn't even...
Hi Nellie and Shaun...coursebooks, it's a big issue! On the positive side, most coursebooks seem to me to present quite a lot of good graded materials and a...
Hi, I agree Will, there is much more interesting text on the internet and in books, magazines and newspapers. In fact, I got my students back on track by...
Hello, My first time writing to the group. I'd appreciate any help offered. I'm interested in using the WS vocab method, but I'm not clear on some aspects of...
Dear Experts, How are you doing all of you I hope one of them remember me Who I am ? I could not pose my query because at least I got a job and busy with job...
Hello, Ičve sent an e-mail via yahoo even before I received this notice,so I must have been registered already. Cheers [Non-text portions of this message have...
Hi DesiderioâŠI really wish I could reply to you in person ... writing things in the internet is a very slow and inefficient method of explaining such a...
Hello Will, Again thanks much;I got the WS sample. I understand the responses and how those areas referred to work. However, question 4's answer is a bit...
hello all experts of english, could you please instruct me how to write an application letter ? or give me some webside addresses that supply documents about...
... Hello,hello. Not to belabor the point, but isn't this site for WS book, and anything relating to it? Why not check out another site in the Yahoo group. I'm...
Hi Desi ... what you describe is definitely possible and although it's a little different from the way I'd personally recommend - it shows quite clearly the...
Hello Again Will, And again much appreciated. I'm gearing up for classes next week and I'm keen on implementing WS, so I hope you don't mind all of the...
Hello Again Desi, hopefully I can answer your questions. Anyway, I'll try. In the "My words" column (and "connecting words") the learner should only really...
Dear Word Surfers, Words are like flowers in a garden. They look beautiful when the garden nourishes them. You need a gardener for that. Will is the gardener,...
This month sees the launch of a WS Vocabulary Development Pilot Scheme. ... as described at http://wordsurfingpilotscheme.blogspot.com/ The aim of this...
Happy Easter Nellie! - and thanks for your kind comments. I'm made up that your students enjoy wordsurfing ( and real surfing too). Please let them know that...
Happy Easter, Will! Here is something that might make you up: http://mistupid.com/games/easteregg.htm NELLIE DEUTSCH http://www.nelliemuller.com ... From:...
Hi All, As I read the messages, Will's cheerful voice makes me put out a topic: humour in vocabulary development, and in language teaching in general. I may...
Hi George, the topic of humour in teaching is something that needs to be looked at seriously... so thanks for raising the issue. Personally, I think that...
Dear Colleagues, Good morning.Can anyone tell me whether we can use 'broker'as verb or not?If the answer is negative,what should we use in such a sentence when...
Dear Ali; I found in the American Heritage Dictionary, yes, you could use 'broker' as a verb the following way: They broker an agreement among opposing...
According to my dictionary it can be a verb, too. The meaning is "act as a broker or middleman; buy and sell property for others" (Babylon Translator -...
Hi, I've just come across a great free Audio Pictionary at ... http://www.languageguide.org/english/ ... and - in case you haven't heard about the site yet ( a...
Hiya! I know this is not the place where I should be posting this kind of question, but here goes: I'm doing a project at college on modals and quasi-modals...
I've just found this picture dictionary, which is free, but a bit on the busy side... http://www.enchantedlearning.com/dictionary.html Hope you like it. =)) ...
