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  • What is the superlative for the word busy?
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    The superlative word is busiest and an example of that sentence maybe the following: Jhon is the busiest person I know. Our CEO, Mary Is the busiest person in the company....etc

  • In your opinion, what is the easiest language to learn !
  • As a tutor, which teaching aid do you find most effective in teaching pronunciation?
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    Donnie Starkey
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    Time with my student and sending them out to find other gringos to talk with as early as possible.

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  • So, as a Tutorhow many of these tenses do you teach.

    Present Simple I study English. Present continuous I am studying English. Present perfect I have studied English. Present perfect continuous I have been studying English. Past simple I studied English. Past continuous I was studying English. Past perfect I had studied English. Past perfect continuous I had been studying English. Future simple I will study English. Future continuous I will be studying English. Future perfect I will have studied English. Future perfect continuous I will have been studying English.


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    It depends in the student's needs.

  • Creative ways to teach a lesson
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    Mimes can also be used as creative and engaging teaching aids to teach the English language in the areas of vocabulary development/ communication skills, etc.

  • How interested are you in improving quickly? Do you prefer lessons to be easy, fun or efficient?

    I always prioritize make a lesson easy to understand even though some topics are quite complex and to get a student to the class of semi-fluent or very fluent quickly. Alot of lesson can be fun but they are just always filled to the brim with learning.


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    You want to have the desired outcomes that makes your student efficient during the lesson, add some fun, try easy and difficult, alternatively, this will also measure the students efficiency

  • How can I explain something if I can’t find the exact word?
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    This is where visual art can be useful in teaching, you can make use of a graphic design that illustrates, projects or represents what you are trying to explain or say.

  • How can I link my ideas together to sound more like a native speaker?
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    Think about what you will be talking about and how you will make it sound like a proper idea as speaking it. In order to that you will also have to make sure it makes sense before putting out there. The best way is to get guidance and and also master English to a certain understanding before putting it out there and that starts by learning the basics as you would not want to use a word that you do not understand the meaning of also and will effect the reason of the application it is being used for.

  • What is the difference between gossip and rumours?
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    Gossip is a discussion between people usually about other people, details about them and/or their actions which are usually not true. Rumors are stories about people or situations that are spreaded, true or not ,and are usually created through gossiping.

  • What do you think about learning the English language through songs, poems? Is the idea a good one?
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    Poetry has been a long and tried tradition on how to teach English, I'd say teaching through songs can have negative effects though especially if a student takes a lesson to heart and remembers it (witch is often the case) because a song writers' number one goal is to make something sound nice, not to say something in a grammatically correct way. There are things like children's songs which are written with that in mind (being structurally and grammatically correct) but on the other hand I don't know too many adults who will enjoy a children's song. I'd say avoid a song entirely unless you can verify a song has no grammatical errors. No easy feat considering most songs have countless mistakes like that though.