Top Ten Mistakes

I've been teaching ESL/EFL for 8 years now and I've had students from all over the world. All students have their own particular challenges based on their native language. I'm going to try to tackle some of the most common mistakes my Korean students make in a series of upcoming posts. Here are my Top Ten, plus a bonus 11th:

1.      –ing vs. –ed adjectives (I’m boring vs. I’m bored)

2.      Prepositions

3.      Subject-verb agreement errors

4.      Pronunciation

5.      The present perfect tense (has/have + past participle)

6.      Making negative past forms (I didn’t saw that movie.)

7.      Articles (a/an/the)

8.      Choosing the wrong form of the word

9.      Almost/most and other expressions of quantity

10.   Not understanding sentences with OR (Ex. Are you taking the day off or are you going to work? Yes.)

11.   Conditional tense confusion

I'm looking forward to helping you improve your skills!

Just getting started...

Hi everyone! This is my first real blog and I’m excited to get started. The main purpose of this blog is to help my students and former students who are studying English as a second or foreign language. I’ll try to post something each week, like tips, student questions, cultural tidbits, or learning tools I find interesting. Let’s see how it goes! You can subscribe to this blog with your favorite RSS reader to get notifications when I've posted something new. I’ll also be posting notices about new blog posts on Facebook (for my former, non-Carrot students) and My Classroom Board (for my current, Carrot students). Let’s learn together!