Halloween

Halloween is coming up and I vant to drink your blood! Err, I mean I want to share some Halloween vocabulary. Click on the link or the picture below:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&adb

New Feature: Quiz Review

 There is now a REVIEW feature on all of the RoadToGrammar quizzes.

When you do the quiz, if you get an answer wrong, the correct answer is shown in green (picture 1 below). When you complete the quiz, you will see a review button (picture 2). Click the review button to see all the correct answers with short notes (picture 3).

Lesson Library

The ESL Lesson Library is a new resource on Road to Grammar.

It features 10 mini-units for ESL learners at B1-B2 level.

Each lesson features vocabulary, listening, grammar and conversational scenarios. It should take a learner 15-20 minutes to complete.

Each of the ten lessons is free and works on any phone or laptop. Teachers might consider using them with their smartboard or assigning them for homework.

The lesson library can be found at this URL:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/lessonlibrary/

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Idiom Selection

Here is a selection of idioms from Road to Grammar's Instagram account:

instagram.com/roadtogrammar

Microlessons: FACE Phrases and Idioms

This week's microlesson features the following phrases and idioms with the word FACE:

1 a long face

2 face-to-face

3 face off

4 face the music

5 face the facts

6 face up to

7 two-faced

8 put on a brave face

Click the link to see the microlesson:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/?&1&acl

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Business English Unit 4: Getting Ahead

Here is the fourth in the new series of business English units. This unit is entitled Getting Ahead and looks at challenges faced by ambitious employees.

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/businessenglish/biz14/

This unit features:

- Reading

- Listening

- Vocabulary

- Grammar
- Discussion

- Writing

There are both self-study and class study materials.

It works well in class with a smartboard. Alternatively, all materials can be accessed on a smartphone.

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New Vocabulary Activity: Describing People

Here is a new vocabulary activity on RoadToGrammar.com. It features 100 words for describing people. Most words are adjectives, such as scruffy, pious or sincere, but some words are nouns, such as geek, loner and troll.

This activity is best suited to learners are B1-B2 level and you can access it with the following link:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/vocabulary/describingpeople/

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Microlesson: You Drive Me...

This week's microlesson shows several variations of the idiom, "you drive me crazy".

Click the link to see the microlesson:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/?&1&acd

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Microlesson: Flight Attendants and Stewardesses

This week's microlesson shows how language can change over time, using the phrase flight attendant as an example.

Click the link to see the microlesson:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/?&1&acb

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Microlessons: Semicolons

This week's microlesson is on the use of semicolons. This is very useful information for ESL learners who do a lot of writing.

Link:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&aca

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Parallel Sentences

As your writing improves and you start creating longer sentences, the topic of parallelism becomes important. It means ensuring that all the elements of your sentence co-ordinate with each other.

This is a topic suitable for learners at high B2 level and upwards.

Road to Grammar features a hub on this topic with notes and two activities, all in a business context. Click the link below to start:

http://roadtogrammar.com/businessenglish/biz12/

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Microlesson: Words Ending in Away

This week's microlesson covers a list of words that end in -AWAY.

These words are:

• castaway
• stowaway
• runaway
• faraway
• giveaway
• takeaway
• throwaway

View the microlesson here:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/?&1&abz

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Microlesson: Through, Thorough, Though

This week's microlesson covers a list of words that my students always get confused about.

These words are:

• thorough
• thoroughly
• through
• throughout
• although
• though
• thought
• tough

It's no wonder students get confused - they all look kind of the same, don't they?

View the microlesson here:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&aby

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Business English Unit 3: Human Resources

Here is the third in the new series of business English units. Rather than an entirely new unit, this is an old unit, updated and reformatted:

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/units/business2/

This unit features:

- Reading

- Listening

- Vocabulary

- Grammar
- Discussion

- Writing

There are both self-study and class study materials.

It works well in class with a smartboard. Alternatively, all materials can be accessed on a smartphone.

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Microlesson: Keep Clean, Keep Healthy

This week's microlesson is "Keep Clean, Keep Healthy".

Teachers, show this to your students before a class on a similar topic!

URL:  http://www.roadtogrammar.com/microlessons/index.html?&1&abx

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