links for EAP teachers
This link was made in response to a student writing:
it is interesting to found that she made two different sounds
The issue here isn’t just the verb but also its form. But I also wanted to get across to the student that it might not always be a good idea to use words like ‘interesting’ in student academic writing (as your marker might not agree with this!). The reusable link is https://ske.li/imp_to_note and it looks like this:
This entry was created in response to a student writing:
It is approximated that a total of 500 volunteers…
The re-usable link is https://ske.li/it_estimated_that and looks like this:
Other verbs can be used with this meaning too. Here’s a link to a concordance showing a range of verbs http://ske.li/it_is_thought – it looks like this:
Another link is https://ske.li/it_is_thought_that – this avoids use of ‘predicted that’ as it doesn’t fit in all situations. It looks like this:
Here’s a final link to instances which have been filtered so that they are all estimates/approximations – https://ske.li/approximated – which might be useful too for looking at different ways of expressing numbers (and hedging). It looks like this:
This link was created in response to the following student writing:
The teachers award a collective score to the group so it is complicated to isolate individual student scores.
“Complicated” is not an option that is found in this construction in standard academic English. Appropriate adjectives with this meaning that occur in it is * to can be found at the link https://ske.li/it_is_difficult_to, which looks like this:
Created by Elena Mazzeri