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| www.FreeEnglishLessons.com Free Lessons for students of English 1. Free Lesson from Steve You can receive a free lesson each month from me if you write to my email at s2314@tmail.com -- ask "Can you please add me to your list of students?" 2. Daily free lesson from englishtown.com This company has an excellent web page. You can visit the page at www.englishtown.com 3. Free lessons on my web site I have many pages on my web sites where you can find worksheets. Go to LESSONS 4. Do you want to find a partner? Do you want to write to one of my students? You can visit this link and move around the pages until you see a list of email addresses. Then you can write to some of my students. You can write: Hello, I am a student and I want to practice English with another student. The teacher in Florida named Steve suggested that I write to you. Good luck! Many of my students are friendly and they will write to you. 5. A list of lessons: I want to create a list of 365 lessons. You can look at the lessons that I have created so far... LESSONS 6. Read the ONLINE Newspaper. You can send me an article about your country to explain problems that US people do not know about. Or you can describe a custom or tradition in your country. 7. You can write to interesting teachers! Click on TEACHERS and see some names of emails of teachers who are interesting and who might write to you. If you are polite they might write to you! 8. English for a Successful Life in the USA (ESL)... My students in 2000 created a fun book. You can see the web-pages for the book by clicking HERE GO TO EASY LESSONS GO TO HARD (Difficult) Lessons |
| Welcome to www.FreeEnglishLessons.com Free English Lessons >> Free Videos of English Lessons Coming soon: Informative Lessons on YouTUBE.com Coming soon: Free Lesson on Supergrammar This is a web site that my friend Cary in England created. He loves to receive letters from students. His students in England can write to you! Send an email message to bradstow2@yahoo.co.uk Get more lyrics at lyrics.jp |
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| Where is this sphere? Visit the photo book of Fort Lauderdale! |
| Lessons and web links recommended by Steve LYRICS at www.lyrics.jp Old Fort Lauderdale Village & Museum www.oldfortlauderdale.org Holiday cards by Jackie Lawson http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2638210182 EXERCISE: Describe each step of the Jackie Lawson card. Why are you studying English? "For myself." Then why did you forget to bring something interesting to class? The student who is learning a language for himself is someone who has a definite idea about what he wants to do with the language. Do you want to read a magazine or a textbook? Find a quotation,...then find a photo to glue to the quotation. Use Google.com to find an IMAGE to match the words... People magazine US magazine National Geographic Find a magazine and find an interesting article. Describe the situation. Use your words. |
| Please finish these sentences 1. A good web site to visit is.. 2. A good place to eat in Florida is... 3. On Friday night in Fort Lauderdale, you should.... 4. In Disney World, the best place to go is.... 5. The People Magazine in my country is.... 6. These magazines are boring. The best magazine is ..... 7. This web site is boring. I like to visit.... (web site name) |
| Space for students to make comments... EXAMPLES (Send your comments to s2314@tmail.com and then I'll put them here) Comment by Maribel: Forget about Fort Lauderdale.. go to Miami! The best web site is Bartlett's Quotations www.about.esl.com >> CHAT to practice http://www.eslcafe.com/chat/chatpro.cgi HOW TO: http://www.command-o.com/chatpro/help.html#oneonone >> Difficult Test http://esl.about.com/library/courses/blcourses_upper_intermediate_review4.htm >> >> in on at http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_prep1.htm Math web sites are fun! www.math-success.com Go to the BOTTOM to find a list of FUNNY WEB SITES |
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| Put these words with the photos Go away, I'm sle_ _ py. Hold it right there. I can see you in movies. Mmm, ice cream! Go away, I'm t_red! That looks good...Can I take a bite? I caught a fish, but it was only this long, so I let it go. |
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| Free English lesson with a web camera Use Skype 2-3:30 pm in Florida mistermath@comcast.net OR Talkinternational@yahoo.com See my list of web sites Visit www.LookForPatterns.com I offer a FREE English Lesson by video. |
| Call my SKYPE.com number SteveFortLauderdale Let's talk! Miro.cz can arrange a web site for you Click here to get on SKYPE.com |
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| This is the plan: You can get a FREE animal (stuffed) when you complete at least 3 activities... Then I will say, "Congratulations!" Your Name ___________________
Please complete at least three of these activities. 1. Send an Email to Steve S2314@tmail.com 2. Create a Portfolio (at least 1 article) or a collection of newspaper or magazine articles. 3. Phone Call -- You can call steve at 954 646 8246 and say, “Hello, Steve. I’m calling just to practice speaking on the telephone. Good bye!” 4. Presentation (Talk about your country or profession) 5. Email to Maysam Maysam_s@yahoo.com Or other students (Cary in England) bradstow2@yahoo.co.uk 6. You can send the lyrics of a song to Steve at s2314@tmail.com 7. You can recommend a good web site to visit. For example, some students suggested readingupdate.com and esl-lab.com 8. Cut photos and make a presentation... or find photos on the Internet and talk about them. You will win a prize if you complete three activities… Go! |
| Free English Lessons .com Good web sites for practicing English iteslj.org Specific QUIZZES a4esl.org Hiroko suggests: esl-lab.com (listening) Raquel suggests: ReadingUpgrade.com esl.about.com eslcafe.com marksesl.com/link_exchange ELLO.org, listening with transcripts -- recommended by a student in Brazil Practice English by writing to students in other countries... for example, write to Cary at bradstow2@yahoo.co.uk and Steve at s2314@tmail.com practice by calling SKYPE.com SteveFortLauderdale.... Hi, friends of Maysam, My name is Steve and I live in Fort Lauderdale. I hope you will call me by SKYPE.com and practice English. I offer a free conversation class to any person in Iran (up to three people per day, 20 minutes per person) and you can reserve your time by writing to me at s2314@tmail.com -- for example, perhaps you want to connect at 10 p.m. your time on Monday and Wednesday. You can get some suggestions for exercises at www.FreeEnglishLessons.com and I hope you will send email messages to me in Fort Lauderdale. I teach students from France, Switzerland and Japan. We all would like to correspond with people from Iran so we can learn more about your country’s history and natural beauty. I don’t agree with everything my government says. I believe that people-to-people contacts will build trust. If you cannot connect via SKYPE.com, please send me your phone number and I will call you by SKYPE.com One of the exercises is learning to pronounce. You can go to www.FreeEnglishLessons.com and practice a conversation and a list of words from the 14 groups of sounds: ate, at, Pete, pet, Bite, bit, hope, hop, cute, cut, could, house, bought, boy… those are the fourteen vowel sounds in English. I will check your pronunciation. Steve S2314@tmail.com English teacher |
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Pronounce the 14 groups of sounds: ate, at, Pete, pet, Bite, bit, hope, hop, cute, cut, could, house, bought, boy… those are the fourteen vowel sounds in English. |
| Please visit my web site called WHY WAIT FOR DETROIT? (about ____ cars) |
| To My Business Class (especially Milan, Tonka, Aibek, Taka, Aka and Marisa), Here is an opportunity to practice English... Call at 2:45 OR 3 pm FLORIDA time, which in Europe is 8 pm or 9 pm, I am not sure... Please think of interesting names for cars, such as Animals Ram Action Dodge Escape Person or Attitude Cavalier Escort Interesting Things Mirage Eclipse What feelings do you have when you say these names? |
| Other interesting categories Geography Touareg Ushuaia Milan Sienna Tuscany I heard of Musical category or Italian words Sonata Allegro Read an article in Forbeshttp://www.forbes.com /lifestyle /bestlife/2004/07/12/ cx_dl_0712 feat.html The best use for the list above is as a point of comparison against the bad names you are about to endure. We have divided our list of the worst car names into two sections. The first concerns made-up names such as the Oldsmobile Alero and Chevrolet Lumina. They sound like Latin, but they're not really words as far as we know. In fact, we may get letters telling us that a "Lumina" is a real thing, though we doubt it. The Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has no record of such a word. The closest is the Latin word "lumen," which means "light." But what does light have to do with this Chevy sedan? Not much. Then there are just inexplicable misspellings, such as the Chevrolet Luv truck. We know how to spell "love" if you want to spell "love," but "luv" is not a real word. Ditto for the Pontiac Aztek. Hey, literacy rates are bad enough. We don't need the car companies making it wurse... Those car names that just don't make any sense to us include, among others, the Buick Reatta; Checker Superba; Oldsmobile Achieva, Bravada, Firenza and Futuramic; Pontiac Astre and Fiero and the Saturn Vue. |
Here's a fake car name... Someone named a new car "the Persephone," after the Greek goddess of reviving crops who was condemned to the underworld after eating pomegranate seeds. "People don't want cars named after hungry old Greek women! They want names like 'Mustang' and 'Cheetah'--vicious animal names." Mustang has one of the best names in automotive history.... Did any of Chrysler's or General Motors' customers really believe that driving a Dodge Diplomat would make them more ambassadorial or a Pontiac Parisienne would make them French? Honda Motor's Life Dunk. FSO Warszawa Invicta Black Prince Wentworth Lamborghini Diablo is no longer in production, but we have included it because it is "vicious." It gets your blood going, and it suits the car. You won't find any alphanumeric names on the list, meaning that we have skipped everything in the current rosters of Acura, Aston Martin, BMW, Jaguar, Volvo, Saleen, Hummer, Nissan Motor's Infiniti, Toyota Motor's Lexus and DaimlerChrysler's Mercedes-Benz and Maybach divisions. Some upscale manufacturers don't use alphanumeric names. Rolls-Royce and Bentley are famous for giving their cars with such poetic names as Silver Ghost and Azure. A name doesn't have to be "vicious" in order to be great, however. Some of the best names, such as the Ford Explorer, are utilitarian. The Dodge Ram is another practical name given that it is a work truck. Calling it the "Horse" might not have been optimal, but giving it an animal name that doubles as a violent verb was a good move (the Ram is also Dodge's logo). Similarly, the name Land Rover--and to only a slightly lesser extent, its larger, more expensive cousin, Range Rover--aptly conveys that vehicle's ability to go wherever it likes and handle virtually any terrain. AC Shelby Cobra, Chevrolet Corvette, DeSoto Firedome, Dodge Viper, Lamborghini Diablo, Plymouth Barracuda and Rolls-Royce Phantom. There are other great names out there but you get the idea. We have divided our list of the worst car names into two sections. The first concerns made-up names such as the Oldsmobile Alero and Chevrolet Lumina. They sound like Latin, but they're not really words as far as we know. In fact, we may get letters telling us that a "Lumina" is a real thing.... The closest is the Latin word "lumen," which means "light." Then there are just inexplicable misspellings, such as the Chevrolet Luv truck. We know how to spell "love" if you want to spell "love," Ditto for the Pontiac Aztek. Those car names that just don't make any sense to us include, among others, the Buick Reatta; Checker Superba; Oldsmobile Achieva, Bravada, Firenza and Futuramic; Pontiac Astre and Fiero and the Saturn Vue. The other set of worst car names are ones that create images of country clubs and glamorous lifestyles. We doubt any celebrities ever owned a Chevrolet Celebrity station wagon. Buick LeSabre; Chevrolet Greenbrier; Chrysler LeBaron; Dodge Coronet, Crestwood, Diplomat, Dynasty, St. Regis; Ford Aspire; Lincoln Versailles; Pontiac Executive and Rambler Country Club. Among the ones that put a smile on our face are the Daihatsu Naked; Honda Life Dunk; Honda That's; Isuzu GIGA 20 Light Dump and Mysterious Utility; Mazda Bongo; Mitsubishi Delica Space Gear and Pistachio; Nissan Fairlady Z and Prairie Joy; Rickman Space Ranger; Rinspeed X-Dream; Suzuki Cappucino; Toyota Deliboy and Toyopet; Volkswagen Thing and Volugrafo Bimbo. We think it's a shame that the Honda Life Dunk doesn't sell over here. Its goofy yet inspiring name would probably attract a fair number of buyers. ========== General Motors found out last year that a forthcoming Buick sedan called LaCrosse, to be offered in Canada, was French-Canadian teenage slang for masturbation. Volkswagen's SUV, the Touareg, is not only unpronounceable for many Americans but was also named after a tribe of north African nomads that, it turns out, traded slaves well into the 20th century. Twice in the last two years Ford Motor has named prototypes of new cars after ones from its storied history only to find out it didn't own the names anymore. The supercar now called the GT was to be called the GT40 after the legendary car from the 1960s. And a new midsized sedan to go on sale next year was to revive the Futura nameplate. There were 55 nameplates after World War II. There will be 240 this year, and AutoPacific estimates there will be another 32 between now and 2007. That raises all kinds of problems for carmakers. There's the expense of supporting a nameplate with design and advertising. And because the number of nameplates is growing faster than sales, each nameplate will have to be profitable selling far fewer copies. "The English language dictionary is largely taken," says James Bell, a senior partner at New York-based brand consulting firm Lippincott Mercer. Hence neologisms, which date at least as far back as Kodak. The name was conceived by founder George Eastman more than a century ago. What was the rationale behind calling his company Kodak instead of, say, Eastman? Eastman's comments to the British Patent Office when registering his trademark read like a primer from Marketing 101: "This is not a foreign name or word; it was constructed by me to serve a definite purpose. It has the following merits as a trade-mark word: first it is short; second, it is not capable of mispronunciation; third, it does not resemble anything in the art and cannot be associated with anything in the art." Some carmakers will hire firms like Bell's to do just that for them--Lippincott Mercer created the Infiniti. Bell, who has been a crossword puzzle buff since he was 10, and a team of five or six other wordsmiths come up with an initial list of as many as 1,000 names. Then a committee will wade through the list and pick 100 or so that are the most appropriate--ones that can be pronounced, that might resonate with the intended market and don't offend the wrong people. Anything longer than three syllables almost never works. (Except, of course, for Lamborghini, which doesn't worry about naming a car Murciélago, after a bull by that name that gored a matador in 1879. All Lamborghinis are named after bulls.) Those 100 names will be checked against the list of registered names with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The 30 that remain will go to the client. After the client cuts that list down to 10 or 15, more legal work is done, checking for competition internationally and state by state. Also, some linguistic work is done to make sure something the carmaker might be selling in Brazil doesn't mean "this car is a death trap" in Portuguese. After the choices are down to a handful, logos and slogans are developed, and often the candidates are put through clinics with would-be customers. Eventually, the client picks one. The cost can reach into the high six figures, mostly for the legal legwork. Sometimes it isn't nearly so difficult. The designers for DaimlerChrysler's Crossfire used the name when they were dreaming it up. It stuck and passed all the legal hurdles in front of it. A Honda Motor product planner came up with the Insight name for Honda's first hybrid vehicle. The Crossfire is a cool name for a cool car. When Toyota Motor was trying to name its new luxury brand in the mid-1980s, it was kicking around names like Celsius and Alexis. When someone on the team heard the "Alexis" proposal, the person didn't hear a woman's name but "a Lexus" instead. It stuck, but not before a battle with LexisNexis, the research company. Sometimes names are too successful. Honda Motor's Acura division produced a popular Legend sedan from Acura's debut in 1986 through the mid-1990s. But the Legend name inspired more devotion than the Acura name. "We wanted anyone who was driving an Acura to think first that they were driving an Acura," says Honda spokesman Andy Boyd. Despite its unpronounceable name, the Touareg has been popular with buyers. Acura now does what almost every other luxury nameplate does--abandons names altogether. Acura makes an RSX, a TSX, a TL, an RL and an MDX. They aren't exactly poetry, and the letters stand for absolutely nothing. The idea is that people driving smallish, exclusive brands will think and talk of the brand, and not the nameplate. That's not so possible for a full-line brand like Ford. Say you drive a Ford and you could be talking about a $15,000 Focus subcompact, a 10,000-pound F-350 SuperDuty or a Ford GT that goes 200 mph. Cadillac is in the process of abandoning names like Catera, Seville and Deville for the supposedly sleeker CTS (derived from Catera Touring Sedan), STS (Seville Touring Sedan) and DTS (Deville Touring Sedan). Mercedes similarly has its C-class, E-class and S-class, and BMW its 3-series, 5-series, 6-series and 7-series. In both cases, the numbers next to the initial character, C240 or 760i, for example, refer to the displacement of the engine. So the 760i has a 6.0 liter engine. The "i"? It's meaningless. "It used to stand for fuel injection," says a BMW spokesman. But now, because all engines sport fuel injection, "it's just a historical thing." Toyota named its hybrid Prius, which Toyota wanted the world to see as a technological marvel, because the word is Latin for "to go before." Saturn. Not after the planet, or the Roman god of fertility and agriculture, though. The name refers to the Saturn rocket that sent Americans to the moon during the space race with the Soviet Union. How many people know what Prius means in Latin, or that Saturn doesn't refer to the planet? Not many. This is one of the things that bothers Ford's Martens so much about naming. "The customer doesn't care about the name," he says. "They just want a good car." www.forbes.com/ 2004/07/12/cz_jf _0712featB_ print.html |