24. Un/Countable Nouns + More about it

Some common uncountable nouns and some nouns that can be either countable or uncountable:

HUNTER COLLEGE READING/WRITING CENTER
http://rwc.hunter.cuny.edu/reading-writing/on-line/countable.html

ADJECTIVES with un/countable nouns
http://www.washburn.edu/services/zzcwwctr/usage-adj.txt

Center for Communication Practices
http://www.rpi.edu/web/writingcenter/esl.html

The Writing Center
http://www.law.cuny.edu/wc/students/multilingual/articles.html
(scroll down)

The University of Texas at Austin
http://www.utexas.edu/student/utlc/lrnres/handouts/1504.html

Some Common Uncountable Nouns:

accuracy darkness fun inferiority admiration economics furniture information advice efficiency garbage integration aggression electricity generosity intelligence air enjoyment gravity irritability assistance entertainment happiness isolation behavior estimation health junk boredom equipment heat justice bravery evidence help knowledge chemistry evolution homework laughter clothing excitement honesty leisure comprehension fame ignorance literature courage foolishness immigration luck luggage peace recreation stuff machinery permission relaxation superiority mail physics reliability survival math poetry research tolerance merchandise pollution sadness traffic money poverty safety transportation music pride scenery trouble news productivity shopping violence nonsense progress significance water oxygen propaganda slang wealth participation psychology snow weather pay rain status wisdom

Some Nouns that can be either Countable
or Uncountable :

abuse drama jail reading adulthood duck jealousy religion afternoon education language revision age environment law rock anger evening liberty science appearance exercise life school art fact love shock beauty faith lunch society beer fear man sorrow belief fiction marriage space breakfast film meat speech cheese fish metal spirit chicken flavor milk stone childhood food morning strength cloth freedom murder surprise college friendship nature teaching commitment fruit paper temptation competition glass passion theater concern government people theory crime hair personality time culture hatred philosophy tradition death history pleasure trouble desire home power truth dinner hope prejudice turkey disappointment ideology pressure understanding discrimination imagination prison weakness disease injustice punishment wine divorce innocence race writing

23. Homophones/Homographs +More

Homophones (words that sound alike but differ in spelling and meaning), are just a great chance for ESL-Students to pick up those groups of side by side arranged words from scratch. That´s a huge advantage unlike native speakers who learn these words divided and by listening. So take the chance. You´ll also learn the pronunciation of new words by recognizing their consonance, and with it you´ll get a better "feeling" for the "burden" of English pronunciation :-). There are a lot of similar pronounced words with small but important differences as well, but that´s another challenge. For the contentious term "Homonym" go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page, it pays.

An English HomophonesDictionary
http://www.earlham.edu/~peteromofone.htm
(scroll down)

Homophones AND confused words
With sample sentences, partly with audio
http://grammar.ccc.commnetrious/notorimes.htm

Alan Cooper´s Homonyms with definitions
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

About 300 Homophones
http://www.taupecat.com/personal/homophones/

Plain List
http://www.all-about-spelling.com/list-of-homophones.html
Plain List
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jyke/homophone_list.htm#English
Plain List
http://www.bifroest.demon.co.uk/misc/homophones-list.html

Homographs + Heteronyms
A Homograph is a word that has the same spelling (look alike) as another word but with a different meaning.
(Heteronyms are Homographs with different pronunciation)


Huge Heteronym Directory + Pronunciaton
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/heteronym.html

List of selected English Homographs + samples
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_homographs

The Heteronym Page with Pronunciation
http://jonv.flystrip.com/heteronym/heteronym.htm

Prof. Sally Kuhlenschmidt´s Collection
Homographs in the same sentence.
http://www.wku.edu/~sally.kuhlenschmidt/homgraph.htm
! "He said that he ate jam in a traffic jam" ;-)

That´s a very interesting approach to the topic:
Homographic concordances and collocations
Version 1
http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark/cog/norms/clark.out
Version 2
http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~clark/cog/norms/bodner.out

Semantics: Homographs
http://www.student.seas.gwu.edu:8080/portnoy/HomographsFME

Antagonyms (Words with opposite meanings)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/antagonym.html

Pleonasms
Needless repetitions as "overused cliché" ?
http://www.wordfocus.com/pleonasm.html

Interesting
http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/more.html

Interesting Spies
http://www.wordspy.com/



? More like that:
> From the author so-called: Past "Tenses":

>
>Past Simple               I went
>Past Emphatic             I did go
>Past progressive          I was going
>Past Perfect              I had gone
>Past Perfect Progressive  I had been going

Past Necessitive              I had to go
Past Usitative                I used to go
Past Intentional              I was going to go
Past Potential                I might have gone
Past Potential Progressive    I might have been going
Past Potential Necessitive    I might have had to go
Past Potential Intentional    I might have been going to go
Past Perfect Intentional      I had been going to go
Past Perfect Necessitive      I had had to go
Past Usitative Necessitive    I used to have to go
Past Habilitative             I could go
Past Contrahabilitative       I could have gone
Past Conditional              I would go
Past Contraconditional        I would have gone

http://www-personal.umich.edu/~jlawler/aue.html

22. Reading - Free ebooks + More

Gutenberg Project
http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page
or
http://www.promo.net/pg/

Texts
http://eserver.org/

Free Online Library
http://www.readprint.com/

World Wide School Library
http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/catalogs/bysubject-top.html

The Online Books Page
http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/

Alice
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/user/rgs/mosaic/alice-ftitle.html

21. For AMBITIOUS ESL-Students (4)

Compare the different English speech accents.
That´s a very scientific approach. Audio + Text.
Browse by atlas/regions

Georg Mason University
The Speech Accent Archive, Huge Database
http://accent.gmu.edu

The Audio Archive, Audio/Text
http://alt-usage-english.org/audio_archive.shtml

BORED ???
Answer These Questions. NOW !
http://iteslj.org/questions/

Sentence Diagrams
http://www.geocities.com/gene_moutoux/diagrams.htm

20. "Daily" ESL - Video - Podcast

(Was a ?) "Daily" ESL - Video - Podcast
Mostly with FREE transcripts !, and exercises.
600 Video - Podcasts archived !
Very useful and entertaining as well


That´s Sarah.
Looks like a felon ?
At the identity parade ?
No, she´s the host.

http://www.geociom/thedailyenglishshow/
or
http://www.geies.com/thedawatch.html
or
via Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/profile_videos?user=thedailyenglishshow
You´ll find the transcripts also on the youtube page next to the player
click on -> "About this Video" or click on -> "more"

Transcript Archive:
http://thedailyenglishshow.blogspot.com/
(Most of the Videopodcasts have transcripts + short exercises)

e.g.
Videopodcast http://tdesvideo.blogspot.com.mn.html
Transcript http://thedaiow.b.com/2007_ive.ht

© thedailyenglishshow.com

19. ESL Podcasts (3)

The Bardwell Road Centre Podcast

For English language students, by English language
students at St Clare's, Oxford
("International English" Authentic Speech, entertaining)

http://bardwellroad.podomatic.com

18. ESL Podcasts + F R E E transcripts

ESL Aloud with transcript
http://esl.libsyn.com/

5 ESL Categories with transcript
http://www.eltpodcast.com/

English through stories with transcript
http://www.englishthroughstories.com/scripts/scripts.html

Several ESL levels with stranscript
http://www.podcastsinenglish.com/index.htm

Funny with transcript and exercises
http://www.archiecomics.com/podcasts/

"Breaking News" with transcript
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

China 232 - with study guide
http://www.china232.com/

Better at English (Video) with transcript
http://www.betteratenglish.com/