by sheila_admin | Apr 2, 2015 | How To Teach English, Vocabulary & Spelling
In 1953 the General Service List was published. This was a list of about 2,000 most commonly used words in English. For many years this was used as a basis for materials writing. This list was useful in learning because anyone who knew all the words on the list would...
by sheila_admin | Dec 6, 2013 | Varieties Of English, Vocabulary & Spelling
There are several major varieties of English: American, British, Australian and so on. This article looks at differences in spelling between these. It is a general guide which covers the majority of cases, however remember that there are exceptions which will need...
by sheila_admin | Jul 5, 2013 | Foreign Languages vs English, The ICAL TEFL Blog, Vocabulary & Spelling
An interesting sideline to the eternal debate about taboo words. The BBC reports that the English term, shitstorm, considered by many to be vulgar and not a word to be used in public as such, has entered the German vocabulary. However, it has entered as a...
by sheila_admin | May 30, 2013 | The ICAL TEFL Blog
How many words do you know? There’s a fascinating web project which hopes to find out not only how many words you know, but how many words everyone else knows as well. Since it began it’s measured over 2 million people and the results have just been...
by sheila_admin | Jul 30, 2012 | Vocabulary & Spelling
An abbreviation (from the Latin, brevis, meaning short.) is a shortened form of a word or phrase used almost exclusively in print. For example: LOL = laugh out loud mins = minutes abbrv = abbreviation As you can see, abbreviations are often either the full word...