“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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I have a friend who uses “hark back” a lot in conversation. She harks back to past news events. She harks back to old times. She harks back to something I told her last month or last year. My first ...

A verb is an action word or a state of being. There are four major tenses in English – simple, continuous, perfect and perfect continuous. This lesson suits intermediate learners. (Note: This is not a ...

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 ...