The Thousand Words Project was an exciting lesson in my classroom; students were engaged and were able to see a new way of approaching writing. Students who are visual learners got a chance to ...

Japanese verbs are divided into three groups. Each group has its own patterns of conjugations. "Group 1" are the verbs that have the vowel I in the syllables before MASU. KAKIMASU (to write) is an ...

Japanese dictionaries list verbs in this form. If you use this form, you sound more casual. There are a number of ways to make "the MASU-form of verbs" into "the dictionary form." First, if a verb has ...

In this English lesson you'll learn words like: to babble, to bob, to schmooze, to skedaddle, to hobnob, to waffle, to fizzle, to jiggle, to squeegee, to canoodle, to bamboozle, to lollygag, to doodle ...

This lesson plan focuses on the evolving language of television news reporting. Through analysis of recent trends in the media, students will develop their critical thinking skills with an emphasis on ...

In the previous lesson, you learned the basic pattern for changing the MASU-form verbs to the TE-form : simply change MASU to TE. But today, let’s learn another pattern. In this pattern, you are to ...

“Mr. Grinch! The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: Stink, stank, stunk!” This wonderful lesson in irregular verbs is from the song “You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch” in the ...

To make verbs negative, add hoow- to the beginning. To make verbs into questions, add koo- to the beginning. Example #1: (hyphens have been added to make things clearer. They are not used in ordinary ...