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How to Write an Effective Essay
A simple method for writing a good, effective essay in English. If you don’t know where to start when you are given a writing assignment, start here and learn how to do it right!
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Andrey
Thanks a lot. There is a problem with sound in this video. It goes acynchronous after 1:26 min.
Andrey — the problem with the sound sync has now been fixed. Thanks for letting us know.
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nisha
I think James is one of the best teachers ever known to me. I am Nisha . I am from India. My English is good but after listening to James’ lectures I could not resist falling in love with his style of teaching. I think his enthusiasm and his crispy humors while teaching is incredible. Not only English but he has helped me improving my teaching skills also, as I am a teacher by profession.
Dear Nisha,
I am from Pakistan. While reading your comment, I found something strange; You used the word “humor” as a countable noun in your comment. I believe the word humor is an uncountable noun in the above context. However, it can be used as a countable noun only when it means the state of your feelings or mind at a particular time for example to be in the best of humors or when it means one of the four liquids that were thought in the past to be in a person’s body and to influence health and character, the latter meaning is of course not in use anymore. I hope I haven’t offended you.
Ali Amiri
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Ozlem Demirciler
I think you are wonderful teacher for me,I am Ozlem.I am from Turkey ,my English is terrible but I am still training.First my grammar so bad:)))) I hope so I will to learn very soon:))))) Thank you very much….
i think Mr Ozlem that “when there i a well there is a way”.So, jut try to convince yourself that you are able to learn ,and that may help u in improving your english.I wih you all the luck
zeynep
syaiful huda
hi engvid i’m studen from indonesia,,..i was happy whn i knew about this video,,.coz i wanna learn english intensivly,.and i hope after i join wih u my english cn increase faster.,.,.!!!!thanx very much
Tatii
Hi, My name’s Tatiana, I’m from Argentina. My teacher recomened this page to practice listening. I’m learning English, so my english isn’t good.. ja ja.. I liked this page a lot.
Kisses.
well, I had some mistakes.. E.g. My teacher recommended me this page…
Tatii
Jeyasugiththan
I am Jeyasugiththan from Sri Lanka. I hope it is good to follow James to improve my English. I have been never seen this type of teaching before. I like this page a lot.
goza
I was looking for along time free English on internet. Finally i discovered best teacher on engvid .God bless on all of you. Keep on good work . Thank you.
florosita
Congratulation to James, he is pretty nice teacher, understandable all the time. I am studying from Panama, but living in USA. These english’s videos are very usufull to many people.
Louly
Well done. Excellent with high sense of humor, thanks
ISTVAN
James an excellent teacher!Many thanks!
chardz
Hi James!
I like the way to teach. Its very simple but understandable. I like your style man! :)
abdul33
i like the way u teach god bless u , u realy help us allot
Fepost
Hi James,
I loved your video, you should be congratulated…
thanks
italoc2
[ I'm using engvid to improve my teaching skills as well and James is really helping, I really like your dynamic style and Im sure my students will apreciate it too. Thanks a lot James! ]
fahdkahlan
Thanks very much for all teachers.
Cesar
Hi James
I liked a lot your video class. I have one comment to you. I think that it will be better for the student just think in 3 steps on the essay task. Introduction, body (main ideas, support ideas) and conclusion (about main idea) as you explain. Because, when you read about the task you already have a question, so, you do not need to think about another question. And about the thesis, I think is kind of confusing. However, I really enjoy your class.
Thank you
Bye
wkchee
I’m Ken , I’m from Malaysia , currently I’m studying in Dalat International school in Penang, for the most part i not doing good cause my grammar is bad , the reason is that my previous school didn’t teach a very good job in grammar since the most i could remember is them teaching vocab.heck maybe i just plain forgot everything, so basicly i don’t even know the basic of basic grammar like noun or pronoun or the rest of the basic . I don’t really want to kick out from that school so is there any advice from me ?
pls reply
breeze
hiii from new zealand!
i’m so happy to find out this great website,i’ve been preparing the EILTS that essay is most considerable to take it.i try to write essay everyday so may i send you those, and then you can check it for me??i wanna to learn my mistakes..in addition, my other problem is that to memorize academic words which are NOT used in daily life therefore i cannot make listening although i live in New zealand.., after to memorize,all of them flyy from my mind rapidly!!do you have any suggestion for it??
thankk you soo muchhh JAMESS
Lorenita
Hi you all¡, My name is Lorena Valenzuela, I am from Chile, I was looking for english resources and I find this great web site on the internet. I want to improve my writing skills and i think this lesson is very useful, doesn’t it?. Thank you very much James for share your knowlegde with us, I really appreciate your effort and enthusiasm in your classes, it feels that you really love what you do, thank again.
In my english class, we are studing QUESTION WORDS AS SUBJECT, and i am not totally clear whit this issue. May you explain the grammar use?, Thank you and Bye, bye.
jai
Hi,i am jai.i am just new to your site ,i felt its brilliant.I am wright IELTS exam in January,i am very week in writing (specially in forming sentence and spelling) please give me some tips to improve my wright,This exam is very important to me,thank you
Deegii
thank you very much when i starting see the your lesson I am very encouraged myself. Because I always afraid when I start my writing. Thank you
fathye
this very good explain thank you
imran
how to write essays
julitoscars
Teacher are yuo good man tanks
ketrin
Hello respected Sir,
I saw your videos and Iam really happy that i found a solution for my problems…………..
Sir my problem is that Iam not good in english and Iam doing O levels. And Iam facing lots of problems in english class I can’t solve comprehension…. Please kindly help me …
Khojiakbar
Hi, my name is Khojiakbar. And I’m 17 years old. I’m from Uzbekistan, It’s in Central Asia. I wanna improve my english. I’ve problems in English, especially on grammar, I mean writing and speaking… my vocabulary isn’t good… Can you give advice??? pls…
abdou
hi i am abdou from morocco , i’m an elelmantary school teacher, i teach Arabic but i like to learn new languages, really your web site helped me especially these fascinating videos it’s surely a very effective tool to teach English ,i wish you more progress.bye.
inkalesova
Hi James!
Congratulation to your video-lesson! I enjoyed it very much. Your explanations are clear and understandable. I will share this video with all my friends who are learning English.¨
I am looking forward to all you new topics.
Your fan Inka
maria-maria
Hey:) My name’s Maria and would say, that your video lessons are really good for improving the language skills! Relying my own experience, I thought it’s perfect to study English, when you’re surrounded by native speakers only…but now I fully realized, that your classes are of much use as well – one gets to know so many new interesting words, expressons and even sentences (!), which you can further use in your own speech. Well, I’m completely satisfied with what you’re doing and how you’re teaching! Thanx a lot for that!
Aslam
thank’s james
Leen
thank you very much
Elnara
thnx very much
ahy
would be more interesting if having more examples. A very nice a attrative teaching method.
shioma
thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaanks alot for this lesson
Meriem
Hi James i enjoy your way of teaching
bava g
sir james can you send me some essays basing on above rules which you taught for explanation.
thanks
Mubarak Alabad
Thanks a lot
Nini
James is very artistic . I love the way he teaches : )
Amila
I am Sri Lanken these all lessons are fantastic and attractive i love it so much
himanshi
hi i m from india . i just love the way you teach
raj
i just love the way to teach…am feeling prpoud to found dis website…lol
keep up dis gud work
raj from canada
Gigi
Hi James
I wrote an essay about Walt Disney and my thesis is Why Walt Disney is so famous? and I can’t think of any supporting idea, can you suggest one for me please…