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Unread postby mreniers » 10 Nov 2006, 01:51

I am teaching farm workers English in Central California and would love suggestions for how to help students break the bad habits they've grown so used to in their 15-30 years living in the US. Particularly with negating verbs and asking questions (Do/Don't/Does/Doesn't). I would appreciate any suggestions. Thanks!
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Unread postby chrisw » 03 Dec 2006, 10:03

The only real advice would be to do drills/activations which involved using aux. verbs. Error correct them a lot and things should work out. Rememember that error correcting does not mean you give them the answer, but elicit it out of them and make them say it correctly
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Unread postby lady_therese » 24 Apr 2007, 13:15

Be creative I guess the same with choose the title for this thread. I love it.
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