Category Archives: Primary & Secondary Education

primary schooleducation should be given in mother tongue or English?

Ashok Chavda asked: Tell me, in which language a kid should learn? English or mother-tongue? there are some hot arguments on my blog and I support mother-tongue, and say any language should be learned through mother tongue.
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can a school take away a lunch period and have kids eat in class during another academic class?

Lckymom asked: My son is going into 9th grade and has to attend AIS for english. The school has decided that he will have a lunch period every other day so he can fit this into his schedule. He will be allowed to get his lunch and bring it to AIS every other day. Is [...]

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How to improve the tense atmosphere in my English class for adults?

Grüffelo asked: A few weeks ago, two girls (aged 18) of my English class had a physical fight during the 5-minute break between two periods. I was so shocked that I didn’t quite know what to do. There has been disciplinary action but the two girls are unwilling to talk to each other ever since.
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is it fair that i failed my english class and a kid i helped in my class that was having way more trouble then

like-no-other asked: me passed with a 70 and me a 55. for crying out loud i was always fixing his grammer mistakes he couldnt even spell he ****** so bad in that class and the teacher passed him and not me wat the fukk. sorry but today i just got the class results and passed [...]

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Can’t understand english kid in my class?

E?IE??E asked: Okay in my class there is this really annoying english kid in my class staright from england that everyone hates you could say he’s like pip from sp (he sorta look like him).
My teacher says i have to be his study partner so i have to work together with this limey. I can’t [...]

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What games to invent for 5 year kid to learn new words in English?

Flower T asked: without computer, I can’t have access to the Internet when I am with herSusie

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Are English and grammar classes failing our youth or are kids just not paying attention?

chrstnwrtr asked: Is it just me or do people have a bad habit of mispelling words and not using proper grammar? I see a lot of grammatical errors nowadays as well as people using “there” instead of “their” and vice versa. This is mostly among the young adult, teen-age populaton.
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i don’t know what to major in help! i love kids, babies, writing, music, philosophy, too many things, help

lina asked: i know obviously, i like writing then i should major in english, but i don’t like to read and majoring in english requires a lot of reading, so now i like kids, major in child dev, but it requires classes i **** like science classes, then there’s philosophy but then what career would [...]

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english classes?

gabriella asked: so… I’m filling out a form for next years classes, and I’m looking at the English page and there is a bunch of classes that give you English credits. and about half of them have two little stars next to them…. and on the bottom it says the 2 stars mean “Satisfies English [...]

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I’m going to LA, CA for 2 months with my kids, Where can they learn English?their mother tongue is Spanish.

irenne l asked: My kids were born in Chile and they speak little EnglishEusebio

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