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I'm trying to teach my Spanish-speaking students English sounds that are new to them: sh, th, v, z, etc. I tell them how to position their teeth, I've explained they should make the z's and v's "buzz", and I've shown them how I pronounce the sh phoneme. They don't seem to be able to reprod...

Thank you Rina!

I have to explain to my students why we say "She has a brown jacket." (We use the verb to have in third person present tense.) But we say "Does she have a brown jacket?" (We use the infinitive to have because it's a question.) What is the name for the grammatical construction &qu...

We say "at the office","at school", "at 22 Mill Street", but "in school", "in the kitchen", "in the country", "in room 6A", etcetera. How do I explain this to my students? Are there rules for this?

Thanks,

Matt