The Thousand Words Project was an exciting lesson in my classroom; students were engaged and were able to see a new way of approaching writing. Students who are visual learners got a chance to ...

Focuses on understanding verbs, explaining their two main categories: action verbs and state of being verbs. It distinguishes between transitive and intransitive verbs based on whether they have a ...

“Mr. Grinch! The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: Stink, stank, stunk!” This wonderful lesson in irregular verbs is from the song “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” in the ...

In this English lesson you'll learn words like: to babble, to bob, to schmooze, to skedaddle, to hobnob, to waffle, to fizzle, to jiggle, to squeegee, to canoodle, to bamboozle, to lollygag, to doodle ...

This lesson plan focuses on the evolving language of television news reporting. Through analysis of recent trends in the media, students will develop their critical thinking skills with an emphasis on ...

A verb is a word used to describe an action. That’s doing something. Or, a verb can be used to describe a state. That’s feeling something. Or, a verb can be used to describe an occurrence. That’s ...

Japanese dictionaries list verbs in this form. If you use this form, you sound more casual. There are a number of ways to make "the MASU-form of verbs" into "the dictionary form." First, if a verb has ...

“Many older adults said they feel positively about their lives,” the New York Times reported recently. That sentence probably sounds as acceptable to you as it did to the Times editors. But what if ...

Japanese verbs are divided into three groups. Each group has its own patterns of conjugations. "Group 1" are the verbs that have the vowel I in the syllables before MASU. KAKIMASU (to write) is an ...