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How to Write a Paragraph

Descriptive Paragraph PowerPoint There are two qualities that you need to ensure that your writing is intelligible: cohesion and coherence. Even if your writing is technically perfect, the reader may still have difficulty understanding the gist of the overall text if it is not well-structured. To make your writing easy to understand, structure your sentences and paragraphs well and arrange them in a logical order. Good grammar provides cohesion, while proper organization ensures coherence. Double-check that each sentence and paragraph is both cohesive and coherent. Coherence means that something makes sense. In writing, it is provided by a clear and understood structuring of paragraphs and sentences. Writing is coherent when the theme or main idea of the text is understandable. Coherent writing follows an overall theme in which each part is related to the whole; each sentence is located in its proper place within the paragraph and each paragraph is ordered within the larger

Working at a Summer Camp Part II: Camp Organization

In this post I'd like to tell you a bit more about what it's like working at American Village and how things are organized. If you're thinking about accepting a job offer with Amvil, this post should hopefully help prepare you a bit for what to expect. If you've never worked at a summer camp before, it can be a bit disorienting and it takes a while to learn the routine. The schedules are different for school or vacation camps, but here is what the average day looks like. 7:30 Wake up 8:30 Breakfast 9:00 Kids brush teeth 9:15 ESL 1 10:15 Recess 10:30 ESL 2 11:30 Congress 12:30 Lunch 1:30 Chill time 2:00 Activity 1 3:30 Snack 3:45 Activity 2 5:00 Free time 6:00 Showers 7:00 Dinner 8:00 Kids brush teeth 8:15 Evening Program 9:15 Cool down 9:30 Lights out (staff clean up) 10:00 Staff Meeting 11:00 - 12:00 Finish work For anyone considering working with American Village, please note that you will typically get between 1-2 hours of breaks through

Grammar: English Tenses

Hello, I'm Laura! My nickname is Lolo. I'm a Canadian EFL teacher who loves to travel! Welcome to  Lolo on the Gogo ! Please feel free to email me at lolotravelgogo@gmail.com or comment below if you have any questions! Enjoy the lesson. There are 12 English tenses. The tenses fall into three time categories: past, present and future. We can also categorize the tenses into four specific types: simple, perfect, continuous and perfect continuous.  The tenses are as follows: past simple, past perfect, past continuous, past perfect continuous, present simple, present perfect, present continuous, present perfect continuous, future simple, future perfect, future continuous, future perfect continuous. Alternatively, we can organize the list as follows: past simple, present simple, future simple, past simple, past perfect, past continuous, past perfect continuous, future simple, future perfect, future continuous, future perfect continuous. When we study somet

Grammar: Present Perfect vs Present Perfect Continuous

Present Perfect Subject  +  have/has  +  past participle vs Present Perfect Continuous Subject  +  have/has  + been +  [ verb + ing ] Hello, I'm Laura! My nickname is Lolo. I'm a Canadian EFL teacher who loves to travel! Welcome to  Lolo on the Gogo ! Please feel free to email me at lolotravelgogo@gmail.com or comment below if you have any questions! Enjoy the lesson. Present Perfect vs Present Perfect Continuous Present Perfect Subject  +  have/has  +  past participle 1. An action that occurred in the past and connects to now 2. A past experience Adverbs: for, since, just, never, ever, yet Time expressions: today, recently, this morning… Examples: I have studied a lot recently, so I should pass my test today. You have played the piano since 2014. I have been to Spain. I`ve never been to France. Have you ever listened to Arcade Fire?   Present Perfect Subject  +  have/has  +  past participle The present perfe