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Old 21-Nov-2006, 17:51
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Default Re: Active and Passive Vocabulary

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Originally Posted by MikeNewYork View Post
There is no doubt about that. It beats the hell out of pointing and grunting.
When you teach English as a second language the students often complain about reading rules, grammar tenses, spelling and of course vocabulary. Let's take for example the verb "To look". As a beginner they have to know the following phrases: "look for" look after" look up" look forward to" look at" look like" etc. It's really hard to remember, isn't it?
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