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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