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Your vs You're - English Grammar - Teaching Tips

 

"Your" and "you're" often get confused, not only by English learners around the world but also by many native English speakers. Let's break it down. "Your" is a possessive adjective that indicates ownership, while "you're" is simply the contraction of "you are". Let's take a look at this example sentence: Your grades are great this semester. In this case, we use 'your' as we use it to indicate ownership. You're the best student in the entire school! This example require us to use 'you're' because it is the short form for 'you are'. Should you not be sure which one to use, think about if you want to express ownership or of you want to say "you are".


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This unit was all about equipment and teaching aids. It included common tools for classroom use like a whiteboard, smart board, overhead projector, dvd player, cassette player, and video camera. Using a mixture of these tools when they're appropriate can be very helpful to language learners and can keep your class interesting and dynamic which can keep the students motivated.Evaluation allows to discover that the objectives have been fulfilled or not, which will serve to take back those that were not assimilated by the students, reinforce the successes obtained and not incur the same mistakes in the future, for which it will be convenient to introduce change In pedagogical strategies to correct and provide the proper help in their learning process.



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