sleeping policeman


The potential benefits of looking at learners' errors had not been recognized until the 1960s. In the behaviorist approach, which had been a prevailing learning theory since the 1930s, it was believed that children learned their first language by imitating and forming a habit of connecting stimulus and response...
Teaching Theories and Skills
1. Brown, H. D. (2007). Principles of language learning and teaching.
2. Larsen-Freeman, D. (2011) Techniques and principles in language teaching.
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1. GIMME = give me
Can you gimme a hand?
2. GONNA = going to
I'm not gonna tell you.
3a. GOTTA = (have) got a
Have you gotta car?
3b. GOTTA = (have) got to
I've gotta go now.
4. INIT = isn't it
That's smart, init?
5. KINDA = kind of
She's kinda cute.
6. LEMME = let me
Lemme go!
7a. WANNA = want to
I wanna go home.
7b. WANNA = want a
I don't wanna thing from you.
Peace is glory, peace is dignity,
peace is love and peace is amity.
Birds fly freely high up in the blue sky,
Flowers bloom and cherish when spring arrives.
Dews settle on leaves with deliberate happiness,
As bees buzz excited around their hives.
Why aren't we as happy as they are?
So free, so elated
and no complaints at all.
As trees and flowers sway
and the wind runs over my face
It brings in a new ray of hope
that world peace can still return.
"May the World Live in Peace and Harmony"