Are your EAL lessons the genuine article?

by Jenny Hartland

If your native language doesn’t use the definite article (‘the’) or the indefinite article (‘a/an’), then this will present a particular challenge when you start your EAL lessons.

At HECS, our EAL tutors understand this, and so we always take care to focus on these little, but important, words.

What difference does an article make in a sentence? Well, imagine you wanted to write that you parked your car in the space. But you forgot the article - and suddenly your sentence belonged in a piece of science fiction, where you parked your car in space!

Or maybe you were telling someone how you were gardening and removed all the weeds on the earth where you were digging. But you forgot the article and so you were actually claiming to have removed all the weeds on Earth!

The little words really do matter!

And our EAL tutors know that focusing on the details with our learners is essential.

Only then will you achieve genuine proficiency in the English language. 

Find out more about us and our tuition services here.