American English News from Maestro Sersea #17: 5/02/2021

Hello English Learners and thank you for registering for our online American English class. On Sunday of every week, I will share news and learning activities with you.

1. News 1: We had our second live audio-video meeting on Sunday, April 25th, 2021, in which we discussed many details, including certificates, assessments, and learning topics regarding our Free English Class. I highly encourage you to watch the entire 1-hour video so you learn more about our class. Here’s the video:

2. News 2: Now you can learn more about your teacher, Maestro Sersea. Click here to read about him as well as watch videos in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Bangla, and Hindi: http://sersea.com/2021/03/26/learn-about-maestro-sersea/

3. American English Lessons Spotlight: Did you know we have 64 videos of the entire Dolch Words American English Vocabulary list on our YouTube Channel? Here’s the link to all of our Dolch Words vocabulary videos: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRAkBbatikIhqjMIOXMqYpouKGO1-36fL

4. English Listening Comprehension Spotlight: Our Commercials for English Learners are helpful for improving English listening skills. I have created video commercials and built some mini lessons around them to help you build American English listening and reading comprehension. Please visit our page to read and watch our commercial, DENTIST: http://sersea.com/2021/01/17/commercials-for-english-learners-dentist/

5. Each week we focus on an English Grammar topic you can review. This week we focus on Parts of Speech: ADVERB. Here’s a link to where you can learn more about ADVERB: https://www.englishclub.com/grammar/adverb-what.htm

Here’s a video that introduces ADVERBS:

6. English Vocabulary Word of the Day: DEVELOPMENT– Each week we will focus on a specific English vocabulary word from our online English Dictionary at http://dictionary.sersea.com .

1. act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining; “he congratulated them on their development of a plan to meet the emergency”; “they funded research and development”
2. a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation; “recent developments in Iraq”; “what a revolting development!”
3. a district that has been developed to serve some purpose; “such land is practical for small park developments”
4. processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible; “the development and printing of his pictures took only two hours”
5. a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage); “the development of his ideas took many years”; “the evolution of Greek civilization”; “the slow development of her skill as a writer”
6. a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess); “after he saw the latest development he changed his mind and became a supporter”; “in chess your should take care of your development before moving
7. the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful; “the development of Alaskan resources”; “the exploitation of copper deposits”
8. (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level; “he proposed an indicator of osseous development in children”

Thank you, students. I will send you the next American English News from Maestro Sersea on Sunday of next week. If you want to access all our previous News from Maestro Sersea, click here for the list: http://sersea.com/news-from-maestrosersea/