Learn 140 Internet color names!

 

He bought enough cookie dough and boughs of holly, but he coughed and hiccoughed through the holiday.

the 7 pronunciations of ough   © Rick Shur, 2001

Hear a student practicing the pronunciation of ough.
[If you have an iPhone or Mac, you can click the link directly. If you have a PC, you might have to right-click and save the mp3, and then play it.]

  1. It is Christmas time. Deck the halls with boughs of holly.
  2. I drank too much so I have the hiccoughs.
  3. The bird flew through the window.
  4. I have a cold and I am coughing.
  5. To make bread, first you must knead the dough.
  6. For some people, learning English is easy, but for me, it's tough.
  7. Today is your birthday. Here is the present I bought for you.

Funny Mistakes

by ESL students

Edited, with commentary, by
Prof. Rick Shur

Golden
Errors

or download the printed handout:
The Top 200 Golden Errors
[errors200.doc]
 

A Game

practice

Because and Even Though

Linkers (transitions)

Two-word (phrasal) Verbs

 

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Concentration


(you will need Microsoft's
Net Framework 2.0 to run this program.)

Download Rick's Doubling
PowerPoint slide show for the Doubling Spelling Rule
(You'll see instructions first.)

Download Prof. Judy Gex's Sights and Scenes of China
PowerPoint slide show in which students guess the relative clauses

Download Rick's editor.doc
a composition comment & correction toolbar for Word
[Say that you want to enable macros.
Save As editor.doc on your computer.
Then open editor.doc in Word.]

Meet my summer '98 class, ESL098.50, with bios and pics!
Meet my winter '99 class, ESL098.50, with bios and pics!
Meet my spring '99 class, ESL099.67, with bios and pics!
Meet my fall '99 class, ESL099.50, with bios and pics!
Meet my Winter '00 class, ESR099.50, with bios and pics!
Meet my Spring '00 class, ESL099.5966, with bios and pics!
Meet my Summer '00 class, ESL099.8485, with bios and pics!

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