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Hello, I guess that depends on size.Pizza is big that is why singular is used.Let us look at this way,a person can eat 1 whole pizza,that is 1 pizza and remember not a slice of pizza.But he cannot eat more than 1 pizzas at a time.He can eat more than 1 hamburgers at a time plus hamburgers are small ...

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I can help you with the second sentence.The correct sentence is-

"When the baloon burst, everyone were startled by the sudden noise"

The correct sentence is

I hope we're not putting too much trouble on you.

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You said that the learner have some knowledge already.That is good because that won't be a challenge for you.Find out his weaknesses and concentrate on that.If he is weak in vocabulary/grammer,spend more time for that part.

For kids of this age,half an hour is more than enough

'an' is used when a word is starting with the alphabets- a,e,i,o,u.These 5 letters together are called vowels. Eg:- an apple an aeroplane an egg an idiot an orange an old man an umbrella 'a' is used for words starting with alphabets other than these above vowels.The rest of the letters together are ...

The best one is -Can you come out tonight? No, sorry, I will be seeing Hamlet at the National Theatre

'I will be seeing' is future tense.

Sentences said in movies are sometimes slang or colloquial.Grammatically 'Im going to a party tonight' is correct.

Grammer has always been a fun to me.Its like playing with the words.I scored really well.

You just want to test their handwriting.So it doesn't matter what topic you give them.Ask them to write on their favorite topic with good handwriting.

Teaching grammer to Kindergarten is a completely no no.They are too young to understand.How can someone teach grammer like nouns,verbs,adjectives etc when the kid is still learning "A for Apple","B for Bat" etc??

American English always uses program

British English uses programme unless referring to computers

While writing "My name is" is correct and it should be wriiten like that.It is a formal way of writing .
While saying,it is heard as "My name's",here "name" and "is" are compressed.If written,it becomes informal.

"he's" means "he is".Its is the short way of writing "he is".
Eg:-He is going to Los Angeles.
He's going to Los Angeles.

"his" means anything belonging to a person.
Eg:- She is his sister.
This is his book.

This 'mostly' means that compared to other fingers,your middle finger hurts more.