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Anyone Can Write Music
All musicians can and should write music, here's an exercise to help you get started
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Anyone Can Write Music
All musicians can and should write music, here's an exercise to help you get started
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End Punctuation
“End Punctuation” discusses the period, exclamation point, and question mark and explains when to use each type of end punctuation mark.
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Can Computers Really Talk? Or Are They Faking It?
New advancements in technology are making it harder than ever to tell the difference between a computer and a human speaker... but what's going on under the hood? Is it really "language," or just a digital illusion?
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Get Prepped for Prepositions
Mr. Griot teaches the student to identify prepositions and prepositional phrases and then practices the skill by playing a game.
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What’s the Word on Adverb Alley?
Mr. Griot visits Adverb Alley and interviews customers at a sports shop while he listens to their responses for adverbs in sentences.
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Can You Fix It?
Mr. Griot reviews complete sentences and shows how to identify and correct sentence fragments and run-on sentences. He then uses a game format to practice using these skills.
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Review for You: Sentences
Mr. Griot reviews complete sentences, fragments, and run-on sentences.
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Pronouns Everywhere! I Know Which Kind to Use!
Mr. Griot discusses subject, object, possessive, and relative pronouns. He then demonstrates the function and use of each in sentences.
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What Kind Is It, and How Does It End?
Mr. Griot explains the four types of sentences and their end marks of punctuation. He also points out some ways to identify each in when reading and writing.
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Review for You: Complete Sentences and Fragments
Mr. Griot reviews how to identify sentence fragments as opposed to a complete sentence. He also reviews finding the subject and predicates in a sentence as well as identifying the type of sentence if it is complete.
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One Thought or Two?
Mr. Griot teaches the elements of a simple sentence. He also explains the process of joining simple sentences with a coordinating conjunction to create a compound sentence.
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Seeing the Same with Synonyms
“Seeing the Same with Synonyms” demonstrates how to make writing more interesting and descriptive by using powerful words that mean the same as blander words.
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Review for You: Fragment, Run-on, and Complete Sentences
Mr. Griot reviews the components of a sentence and practices identifying complete sentences, sentence fragments, and run on sentences.
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Conjunctions: Read, Combine, Revise
Mr. Griot describes the function of a coordinating conjunction and demonstrates for the student how to combine and correct sentences using a comma and coordinating conjunction.
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Airplanes and Clouds
Mr. Griot explains prepositions and prepositional phrases and gives hints about how to remember and identify them.
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Types of Sentences
Mr. Griot explains the different types of sentences: declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory.
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Questions and Statements
“Questions and Statements” explains questions and statements, giving several examples of each.
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Nouns and Adjectives
This video entitled "Noun and Adjectives" discusses the relationship between nouns and adjectives and explains how to diagram a simple sentence.
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The Day Henry Met... Running Shoes
Today Henry Meets a pair of running shoes in a sports shop. Running shoes are a bit sad as they’ve never actually run a race or won any trophies. Henry saves the day by becoming an athlete, organising a race in the shop and competes...
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Summarizing {Comprehension}
Summarizing or saying the summary of a text is an important comprehension practice for kids to understand what they read.
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Infinitives vs. Gerunds: 6 Tips for ESL Learners | EasyTeaching
Both infinitives and gerunds can act as nouns, and for this reason, it can be confusing to know whether we need to use the infinitive or the gerund in a sentence. In this video, we'll explore six invaluable tips to help ESL learners...
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Will vs Going To: Understanding the Difference | EasyTeaching
In this lesson, we learn the difference between 'will' and 'going to'. ‘Will’ and ‘going to’ are both used to talk about the future. They can both be used to form the simple future tense. They are quite often used interchangeably,...
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Present Perfect Tense | ESL Grammar Lessons | EasyTeaching
It can be tempting to use simple past tense in place of present perfect tense. It’s important that we don’t. In this video, we’ll look at why present perfect is important, how we form it, and five situations it's used.