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Desert vs Dessert - English Grammar - Teaching Tips

 

This video covers the difference between 'desert' and 'dessert'. As these two words have a similar pronunciation and spelling, their usage is often confused. This is such a commen mistake made by both native speakers and English learners that we simply have to cover it. The pronunciation of the words is slightly different so most mistakes occurr in writing. Let's take a look at the two words. 'Desert' spelled with one 's' refers to a waterless, dry and empty area. A suitable example would be: Crossing that desert is dangerous. 'Dessert' spelled with double 's', on the other hand, has a very different meaning. It refers to the sweet course usually served at the end of a meal, such as cake or ice-cream. A good example would be: I had some ice-cream for dessert today. Keeping this in mind, there shouldn't be a problem in identifying which spelling to use in which situation.


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This unit has been particularly useful because watching the different performances of the same teacher while doing the same class with different attitudes is very effective to understand what a teacher should and should not do and it is also helpful because it makes me reflect about the possible errors that I could make without having consciousness of them.Having different levels of students in the same class seems like it could be quite difficult. I guess it would be most important to try and split the different levels into different times or at least you need to split them into just 2 levels in 1 class. If you have 3 or more different levels this could be problematic and could make it difficult to progress.



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