Tuesday, September 25, 2018

"Garbage Patch" Vocabulary at Studystack.com

Click the link to study these ten vocabulary words from the reading on ocean garbage:

          garbage              patch                spin                   current         manufactured   
          material             pollution          dangerous         cargo            recycle


LINK: Vocabulary from "Garbage Patch" Reading






Service Dog Vocabulary at Studystack.com

Click the link next to the pictures to study the meaning of these vocabulary words from the "Hero Dogs" reading:

    disability    service dog    training    volunteer    task    command    healthy    veteran




LINK: Service Dog Vocabulary Words






Review and Practice--Spelling Rules for adding -ed and -ing to verbs

Click on the link below to review spelling rules for adding -ed (for simple past tense) and -ing (for progressive tenses) to verbs:

LINK:Review and practice adding -ed and -ing endings

Monday, September 24, 2018

Wow! Bilingual Sentence Pairs!

I didn't know that Manythings.org had a page where you can read sentence pairs in English AND the translation in any language you choose. However, these sentences are written by volunteers in something called the Tatoeba project. Many of them are students, and the sentences have not been checked by their teachers for grammar errors or awkward expressions.

Nevertheless, reading sentences in your language and English at the same time may help reinforce vocabulary. Over 50 languages are represented (unfortunately, there are no Burmese sentences at this time). Here is what the first part of the page looks like:

The Sentence Pairs

Click on the link below, then click on the language pair you want to read. Then you can click on one of the pages to read bilingual sentence pairs.

LINK: Choose a Language Pair