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Content-rich readings from across the curriculum paired with modeled learning strategies equip students with the tools they need to achieve academic success as they transition to mainstream classrooms.
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Teaching Tip
Transferable Skills: Noun-Formation in Other Language Groups
Many languages use suffixes to transform one word category into another similar to the way English adds the suffixes -or and -er to turn a verb into a noun. Chinese adds the suffix -yuan to describe the member of a group performing a certain action such as yan yuan meaning actor/actress or feixing yuan meaning pilot. Japanese add the suffix te to a verb to describe a person who can perform an action such as kakite meaning writer or urite meaning seller. Conduct a quick survey among your students regarding noun-formation from verbs in their native tongue and look for similarities and differences. Ask whether their home language distinguishes between male and female forms similar to the English actor/actress or waiter/waitress.
From Longman
Keystone B, Teacher's Edition
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